14-letter words containing f, i, c
- family compact — any influential clique
- family romance — a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
- fanaticization — the act or an instance of making people fanatical
- fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
- fantasticality — The quality of being fantastical.
- fantastication — the act of making fantastic
- fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
- fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
- fatalistically — the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.
- feel the pinch — If a person or company is feeling the pinch, they do not have as much money as they used to, and so they cannot buy the things they would like to buy.
- felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
- fellow citizen — law: national of same country
- femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
- fencing master — an expert in, and teacher of, the art and sport of fencing
- fencing school — an academy or school where fencing was taught by fencing masters
- fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
- ferroelectrics — Plural form of ferroelectric.
- ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
- ferry crossing — the act or instance of travelling across the sea by ferry
- fertility cult — a religious cult devoted to the enhancement of the fertility of persons, plants, or animals, by means of rituals often associated with a particular deity.
- fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
- fichtelgebirge — a mountain range in E central Germany, near the Czech border. Highest peak, Schneeberg, 3447 feet (1051 meters).
- fictionalizing — Present participle of fictionalize.
- fictitiousness — The state of being fictitious.
- fideicommissum — a request by a decedent that the heir or legatee to the estate convey a specified part of the estate to another person, or permit another person to enjoy such a part.
- fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
- field exercise — a military exercise in which mock warfare is staged between two forces.
- field guidance — a method of guiding a missile to a point within a gravitational or radio field by means of the properties of the field
- field of force — the region of space surrounding a body, such as a charged particle or a magnet, within which it can exert a force on another similar body not in contact with it
- fifth monarchy — the fifth and final monarchy following the Assyrian, Persian, Greek (under Alexander the Great), and Roman monarchies, supposed to have been prophesied in Dan. 2.
- fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
- fighting chair — a chair fastened to the deck at the stern of a seagoing fishing boat for use by an angler in landing a large fish.
- filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
- filiopietistic — of or relating to reverence of forebears or tradition, especially if carried to excess.
- film projector — an optical instrument in which a strip of film is wound past a lens at a fixed speed so that the frames can be viewed as a continuously moving sequence on a screen or wall
- finance charge — interest or a fee charged for borrowing money or buying on credit.
- financial year — law: annual accounting period
- fine champagne — a high-quality cognac distilled from grapes grown in the Grande Champagne or Petite Champagne vineyards of western France.
- fine structure — a group of lines that are observed in the spectra of certain elements, as hydrogen, and that are caused by various couplings of the azimuthal quantum number and the angular momentum quantum number.
- finite decimal — a decimal numeral in which, after a finite number of decimal places, all succeeding place values are 0, as ⅛ = 0.125 (contrasted with nonterminating decimal).
- finnan haddock — smoked haddock.
- fire insurance — insurance covering any loss or damage caused by fire.
- fireside chats — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- first classman — a fourth-year student at a U.S. military academy.
- first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
- firth of clyde — an inlet of the Atlantic in SW Scotland. Length: 103 km (64 miles)
- firth-of-clyde — a river in S Scotland, flowing NW into the Firth of Clyde. 106 miles (170 km) long.
- fish and chips — fried fish fillets and French fries.
- fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
- fitness center — A fitness center in a hotel is a large room, usually containing special equipment, where people go to do physical exercise and get fit.