14-letter words containing f, i, c, e, s
- inflorescences — Plural form of inflorescence.
- infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
- insignificance — the quality or condition of being insignificant; lack of importance or consequence.
- insufficiently — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
- isle of france — Île-de-France
- jackknife-fish — a black and white, American drum, Equetus lanceolatus, found in tropical areas of the Atlantic Ocean, having an elongated dorsal fin that is held erect.
- jefferson city — a city in and the capital of Missouri, in the central part, on the Missouri River.
- keep-fit class — an exercise class designed to promote physical fitness
- law of cosines — a law stating that the square of a side of a plane triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides minus twice the product of the other sides multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them.
- life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
- life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.
- lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
- machine finish — a very smooth paper surface, created by a machine.
- massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
- metafictionist — A writer of metafiction.
- microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
- midlife crisis — a period of psychological stress occurring in middle age, thought to be triggered by a physical, occupational, or domestic event, as menopause, diminution of physical prowess, job loss, or departure of children from the home.
- minucius felix — Marcus, Roman writer of the 2nd century a.d. whose dialogue Octavius is the earliest known work of Latin-Christian literature.
- mischief night — Halloween or, in some areas, the night before Halloween, as an occasion for pranks and minor vandalism by young people.
- mischief-maker — a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.
- misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
- non-classified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
- non-infectious — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- nonspecificity — The state or condition of being nonspecific.
- nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
- officers' mess — a place where officers eat or take recreation
- pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
- packet sniffer — (networking, tool) A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
- perfectibilism — the belief in the perfectibility of human nature
- perfectibilist — (predominantly in relation to the Illuminati) a person who believes that a given thing, usually human nature, is perfectible
- perfectiveness — the state or quality of being perfective
- porcupine fish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- prison officer — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- recessionproof — not susceptible to an economic recession: a recessionproof economy; He wants a long-term contract to make his job recessionproof.
- reflectionless — unable to reflect, not possessing a reflection
- reflectiveness — that reflects; reflecting.
- refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
- reinforcements — the act of reinforcing.
- resinification — to convert into a resin.
- ross ice shelf — an ice barrier filling the S part of the Ross Sea.
- sacchariferous — containing or yielding sugar.
- sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
- safety circuit — a type of electronic circuit that prevents malfunction by stopping the flow of current or sounding an alert.
- safety curtain — a sheet of asbestos or other fireproof material that can be lowered just inside the proscenium arch in case of fire, sealing off the backstage area from the auditorium.
- safety officer — The safety officer in a company or an organization is the person who is responsible for the safety of the people who work or visit there.
- saint boniface — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
- saxifragaceous — belonging to the plant family Saxifragaceae.
- schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.