14-letter words containing f, i, n, o, c
- coffee machine — a machine that makes coffee from ground coffee
- coffee morning — A coffee morning is a social event at which coffee and tea are served. It takes place in the morning, and is usually intended to raise money for charity.
- combining form — A combining form is a word that is used, or used with a particular meaning, only when joined to another word. For example, '-legged' as in 'four-legged' and '-fold' as in 'fivefold' are combining forms.
- come in useful — If an object or skill comes in useful, it can help you achieve something in a particular situation.
- comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
- commission fee — a fee paid to auctioneers, salespeople, etc, for their services
- commitment fee — a charge made by a bank, in addition to interest, to make a loan available to a potential borrower
- community life — the life and activities of a community
- confabulations — Plural form of confabulation.
- confederations — Plural form of confederation.
- confessionally — in a confessional manner
- confidence man — A confidence man is a man who persuades people to give him their money or property by lying to them.
- confidentially — Confidentially is used to say that what you are telling someone is a secret and should not be discussed with anyone else.
- configuraholic — (jargon) A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
- configurations — Plural form of configuration.
- confirmability — the quality of being confirmable
- confirmational — providing proof or supporting evidence
- conflagrations — Plural form of conflagration.
- conformability — Conformableness.
- conformational — manner of formation; structure; form, as of a physical entity.
- confrontations — Plural form of confrontation.
- coniferophytes — Plural form of coniferophyte.
- conniption fit — Often, conniptions. Informal. a fit of hysterical excitement or anger.
- conniption-fit — Often, conniptions. Informal. a fit of hysterical excitement or anger.
- contact flight — a flight in which the pilot remains in sight of land or water
- contact flying — flying an airplane in conditions of good visibility so that the course and altitude can be determined by observing points or objects on the ground; VFR
- contour flying — the technique of flying at a constant altitude of less than 22.8 metres (75 feet) above the ground.
- cosi fan tutte — a comic opera (1790) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- cost of living — The cost of living is the average amount of money that people in a particular place need in order to be able to afford basic food, housing, and clothing.
- cost-efficient — cost-effective.
- council bluffs — city in SW Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebr.: pop. 58,000
- council of ten — the governing council of Venice from 1310 until its overthrow in 1797, composed originally of 10 and later 17 members.
- council of war — A council of war is a meeting that is held in order to decide how a particular threat or emergency should be dealt with.
- counterfeiters — Plural form of counterfeiter.
- counterfeiting — the making of fraudulent copies; forgery
- cult following — the admiration that is felt by a particular group for a film, book, band, etc
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- cylinder front — a front cover for a desk or the like, consisting either of a solid piece or of a tambour sliding up and back in quadrantal grooves.
- decaffeination — The removal of caffeine.
- deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
- delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
- denazification — The process of bringing the leaders of the National Socialist regime in Germany to justice and of purging all elements of Nazism from public life, carried out especially between 1945 and 1948.
- denitrificator — an apparatus which is used in denitrification, particularly in sulphuric acid works
- detoxification — Detoxification is treatment given to people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol in order to stop them from being addicted.
- discomfitingly — In a manner that discomfits.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
- drawing office — an office where drawings are made
- drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
- drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing