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14-letter words containing f, i, l, t

  • file extension — filename extension
  • file separator — (character)   (FS) ASCII character 28.
  • file signature — A magic number.
  • filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
  • filiopietistic — of or relating to reverence of forebears or tradition, especially if carried to excess.
  • fillister head — a cylindrical screw head.
  • 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
  • filter feeding — a method of feeding occurring in some aquatic animals, such as planktonic invertebrates and whalebone whales, in which minute food particles are filtered from the surrounding water
  • final judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • final solution — the Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich.
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • 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).
  • finlandization — the neutralization of a country in terms of its allegiance to the superpowers, in the way that the Soviet Union rendered Finland neutral and friendly without making it a satellite state or requiring that it adopt Communism.
  • fireman's lift — a method of carrying a person, in which you put one shoulder into the person's midriff, lift them and carry them with their head arms and upper torso hanging down your back while you grip their legs with one hand (leaving your other hand free to hold the ladder as you climb down)
  • first and last — being before all others with respect to time, order, rank, importance, etc., used as the ordinal number of one: the first edition; the first vice president.
  • first classman — a fourth-year student at a U.S. military academy.
  • first language — mother tongue
  • first quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the smallest quartile; the twenty-fifth percentile; the value of the variable below which one quarter of the elements are located.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • fissionability — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
  • flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
  • flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
  • flash smelting — a smelting process for sulphur-containing ores in which the dried and powdered ore, mixed with oxygen, is ignited on discharge from a nozzle, melts, and drops to the bottom of a settling chamber. Sulphur is released mainly in its solid form, thus reducing atmospheric pollution
  • flashing point — flash point (def 1).
  • flexible joint — A flexible joint is a coupling which can transmit torque between two shafts which are not aligned.
  • flight capital — funds transferred abroad in order to avoid high taxes or to provide for a person's needs if flight from the country becomes necessary
  • flight control — the direction of airplane movements, especially takeoffs and landings, by messages from the ground.
  • flight feather — one of the large, stiff feathers of the wing and tail of a bird that are essential to flight.
  • flight officer — an officer of the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II, having a rank equivalent to that of a warrant officer junior grade.
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
  • floating heart — any of certain aquatic plants belonging to the genus Nymphoides, of the gentian family, especially N. aquatica, having floating, more or less heart-shaped leaves and a cluster of small, white, five-petaled flowers.
  • floating point — a decimal point whose location is not fixed, used especially in computer operations.
  • floating stock — stock not held for permanent investment and hence available for speculation; stock held by brokers and speculators rather than investors.
  • floating voter — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
  • floating-point — a decimal point whose location is not fixed, used especially in computer operations.
  • floriculturist — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
  • florida strait — a strait between Florida, Cuba, and the Bahamas, connecting the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic.
  • florida-strait — a state in the SE United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. 58,560 sq. mi. (151,670 sq. km). Capital: Tallahassee. Abbreviation: FL (for use with zip code), Fla.
  • florists' foam — a rigid, deformable, spongelike plastic used in floral arrangements to secure the stems of flowers.
  • flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea
  • flotation tank — an enclosed ventilated tank filled with a saline solution at body temperature, in which a person floats in darkness in order to relax or meditate
  • fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
  • flying dustbin — petard (def 3).
  • flying trapeze — a trapeze used in performing gymnastic displays high above the ground
  • foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
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