14-letter words containing f, i, n, e, a, l
- life and death — ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.
- 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.
- life-affirming — A life-affirming activity or attitude emphasizes the positive aspects of life.
- life-and-death — ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.
- life-enhancing — If you describe something as life-enhancing, you mean that it makes you feel happier and more content.
- lift attendant — a person who operates a lift, esp in large public or commercial buildings and hotels
- lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
- 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.
- line of attack — a line of attack to a problem or situation is how you approach it
- line of battle — a line formed by troops or ships for delivering or receiving an attack.
- lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
- magnetic field — a region of space near a magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle in which a magnetic force acts on any other magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle.
- man of galilee — Jesus.
- massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
- meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- melamine-faced — having a thin melamine layer on one or more faces
- microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
- miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
- moment of sail — the product of a given area of sail, taken as the maximum safe area, and the vertical distance from the center of effort and the center of lateral resistance.
- morgain le fay — Morgan le Fay.
- new federalism — a plan, announced in 1969, to turn over the control of some federal programs to state and local governments and institute block grants, revenue sharing, etc.
- non-affiliated — not associated with a particular group, organization, etc
- non-beneficial — conferring benefit; advantageous; helpful: the beneficial effect of sunshine.
- non-classified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
- non-refillable — (of a container of some kind) not capable of being used again by having more of something put inside
- nonfilamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- nonfissionable — not able to undergo fission
- nonforfeitable — a fine; penalty.
- noninflammable — Not catching fire easily; not flammable.
- noninfluential — Not influential.
- nonmaleficence — A lack or absence of maleficence.
- nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
- nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
- outing flannel — a light cotton flannel with a short, dense nap.
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- pelican-flower — a woody vine, Aristolochia grandiflora, of the West Indies, having heart-shaped leaves and purple-spotted, purple-veined flowers from 18 to 24 inches (46 to 61 cm) wide with a long, taillike structure at the tip of the corolla.
- pentland firth — a strait between N Scotland and the Orkney Islands, linking the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean: noted for its rough sea conditions. 14 miles (23 km) long.
- potential flow — Potential flow is a way of describing flow in a fluid using streamlines.
- prairie falcon — a North American falcon, Falco mexicanus, grayish-brown above and white barred with brown below.
- preferentially — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
- preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- professionally — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- quinquefoliate — (of leaves) having or consisting of five leaflets
- rank-and-filer — a member of the rank and file.
- referentiality — the quality or state of being referential or containing references
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- relexification — to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
- right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- route flapping — flapping router