14-letter words containing f, i, e, l
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- disdainfulness — The state or quality of being disdainful.
- disgustfulness — the quality of being disgustful
- disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
- do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
- dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
- driftless area — a tract of land that was once surrounded but never covered by a continental glacier, consequently having no glacial deposits.
- electric fence — a fence with an electric current in it, typically used to keep cattle in a field
- electric field — a field of force surrounding a charged particle within which another charged particle experiences a force
- electrifyingly — In an electrifying manner.
- electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
- electroforming — a process used to create a metallic object by electrolytic deposition on a mould or matrix
- emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
- enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
- engine failure — failure to operate by the engine of an aircraft, car, or other vehicle
- english muffin — crumpet
- ergocalciferol — Constituent of vitamin D1 and vitamin D2.
- faeroe islands — group of Danish islands in the N Atlantic, between Iceland & the Shetland Islands: 540 sq mi (1,399 sq km); pop. 44,000
- fair-trade law — a state or federal law authorizing fair-trade agreements: repealed 1975.
- fairy bluebird — any fruit-eating passerine bird of the genus Irena, of the East Indies, the males of the several species being characteristically black below and purple-blue above.
- fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
- fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
- falling market — a stock market in which share prices are falling
- fallopian tube — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
- false beginner — a language student who has some knowledge of a language, but who needs to start again from the beginning
- false negative — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test failed to recognize an existing condition or finding. a person who receives this test result.
- false position — a situation in which a person is forced to act or seems to be acting against his principles or interests
- false positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
- false relation — a harmonic clash that occurs when a note in one part sounds simultaneously with or immediately before or after its chromatically altered (sharpened or flattened) equivalent appearing in another part
- false scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
- false-negative — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test failed to recognize an existing condition or finding. a person who receives this test result.
- false-positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- 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
- family therapy — the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
- family viewing — television programmes that are suitable for both adults and children
- fantail darter — a North American freshwater fish, Etheostoma flabellare, of the perch family.
- faraday shield — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
- feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
- federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
- federalization — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
- feeblemindedly — Alt form feeble-mindedly.
- feeding bottle — infant's feeding receptacle
- 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
- fellow feeling — sympathetic feeling; sympathy: to have fellow feeling for the unfortunate.
- fellow-feeling — sympathetic feeling; sympathy: to have fellow feeling for the unfortunate.
- fellowshipping — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
- fencing school — an academy or school where fencing was taught by fencing masters