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14-letter words containing f, i, n, a

  • featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
  • featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
  • federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
  • federalization — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
  • feed-in tariff — a payment above the market rate paid to a small-scale producer of renewable energy by a large energy provider
  • fencing master — an expert in, and teacher of, the art and sport of fencing
  • feng yu-hsiang — ("Christian General") 1880–1948, Chinese general.
  • ferrimagnetism — (physics) a form of antiferromagnetism in which some magnetization remains below a critical temperature (the Neel temperature).
  • ferromagnesian — (of minerals and rocks) containing iron and magnesium.
  • ferromagnetism — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
  • ferry terminal — docking area for passenger boats
  • fertilizations — Plural form of fertilization.
  • festive season — People sometimes refer to the Christmas period as the festive season.
  • fetal position — a bodily posture resembling that of the fetus in the uterus, in which the body is curled with head and limbs drawn in, sometimes assumed in states of fear or emotional withdrawal.
  • fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
  • fictionalizing — Present participle of fictionalize.
  • fiddle pattern — a pattern of spoon or fork having a handle that narrows abruptly from a broad, flat upper part and terminates with a pronounced shoulder above the bowl or tines.
  • fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
  • 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
  • fiesta taurina — fiesta de toros.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
  • figure skating — ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice.
  • file signature — A magic number.
  • filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
  • final dividend — the dividend paid on the basis of a company's results for a whole financial year. The final dividend is usually voted on at a company's AGM
  • final judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • final solution — the Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich.
  • finance charge — interest or a fee charged for borrowing money or buying on credit.
  • financial year — law: annual accounting period
  • find one's way — If you find your way somewhere, you successfully get there by choosing the right way to go.
  • fine champagne — a high-quality cognac distilled from grapes grown in the Grande Champagne or Petite Champagne vineyards of western France.
  • fineness ratio — Aeronautics. the ratio of the length of a streamlined body, as a rocket or airplane hull, to its maximum diameter.
  • finger reading — the reading of Braille by means of the fingertips.
  • finishing nail — a slender nail with a small globular head, used for finish work, being driven to slightly beneath the surface and covered with putty or the like.
  • 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.
  • finnan haddock — smoked haddock.
  • finnbogadottir — Vigdís [Icelandic vig-dees] /Icelandic vɪgˈdis/ (Show IPA), born 1930, Icelandic political leader: president 1980–96.
  • finnegans wake — a novel (1922–39) by James Joyce.
  • finsteraarhorn — a mountain in S central Switzerland: highest peak of the Bernese Alps, 14,026 feet (4275 meters).
  • fire insurance — insurance covering any loss or damage caused by fire.
  • fire-resistant — totally or almost totally unburnable.
  • fire-retardant — able to slow or check the spread of destructive fire.
  • 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 sergeant — the senior noncommissioned officer of a company, squadron, etc., responsible for personnel and administration.
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