14-letter words containing f, i, n, s
- 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
- counterfeiters — Plural form of counterfeiter.
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- daisy fleabane — a North American composite plant, Erigeron annuus, having hairy stems and numerous, small, daisylike flowers with narrow white rays.
- death benefits — Death benefits are the amount of money that an insurance policy will pay upon the death of the person whose life is being insured.
- defect density — (programming) The ratio of the number of defects to program length.
- defenestrating — Present participle of defenestrate.
- defenestration — the act of throwing someone out of a window
- defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
- definitiveness — most reliable or complete, as of a text, author, criticism, study, or the like: the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson.
- delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
- despitefulness — The state or quality of being despiteful.
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
- differentiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of differentiate.
- diffuse nebula — nebula (def 1a).
- diffusion line — a range of clothes made by a top fashion designer for a high-street retailer
- disaffiliation — The termination of an affiliation; the act of ceasing to be associated with something.
- disaffirmation — The act of denial; a declaration that something is not true.
- disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
- discomfitingly — In a manner that discomfits.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- disdainfulness — The state or quality of being disdainful.
- disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
- disfigurements — Plural form of disfigurement.
- disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
- disfranchising — Present participle of disfranchise.
- disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
- disgustfulness — the quality of being disgustful
- disidentifying — Present participle of disidentify.
- disinfestation — The act or process of disinfesting.
- disinformation — false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
- disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
- einstein shift — a small displacement towards the red in the spectra, caused by the interaction between the radiation and the gravitational field of a massive body, such as the sun
- electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
- emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
- english muffin — crumpet
- esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
- f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
- fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
- facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
- factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
- 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
- fairmindedness — Alt form fair-mindedness.
- 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.
- 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.