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

  • infection rate — the rate at which a disease is spread among people
  • inferior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned below the receptacle of a flower, as in members of the iris family.
  • inferoanterior — below and in front.
  • infix notation — (language)   One of the possible orderings of functions and operands: in infix notation the functions are placed between their operands, such as "1+2". Although infix notation is limited to binary functions most languages mix infix notation with prefix or postfix notation, as a form of syntactic sugar.
  • inflammatories — Plural form of inflammatory.
  • inflation rate — economy: price increase
  • infopreneurial — of or relating to the manufacture or sales of electronic office or factory equipment designed to distribute information
  • infratentorial — (anatomy) refers to a location below the tentorium cerebelli.
  • inside forward — one of two attacking players whose usual position is between the center forward and one of the wings.
  • instead of sth — If you do one thing instead of another, you do the first thing and not the second thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour.
  • intrafallopian — occurring within either of the Fallopian tubes
  • isle of france — Île-de-France
  • isle of thanet — an island in SE England, in NE Kent, separated from the mainland by two branches of the River Stour: scene of many Norse invasions. Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
  • it's not as if — You use 'It's not as if' to introduce a statement which, if it were true, might explain something puzzling, although in fact it is not true.
  • jack-in-office — a self-important petty official
  • justifications — Plural form of justification.
  • karstification — the process of turning into karst
  • king of beasts — the lion.
  • lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
  • law of cosines — a law stating that the square of a side of a plane triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides minus twice the product of the other sides multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them.
  • law of nations — international law.
  • 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.
  • logania family — the plant family Loganiaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs of warm regions having usually opposite leaves, clusters of regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or fleshy fruit, and including the butterfly bush, Carolina jessamine, logania, and trees of the genus Strychnos, which are the source of curare, nux vomica, and strychnine.
  • magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
  • magnifications — Plural form of magnification.
  • maid of honour — A maid of honour is the chief bridesmaid at a wedding.
  • main door flat — a flat in a tenement that can be accessed directly from outside rather than one which can only be accessed via a communal stairwell
  • malfunctioning — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
  • man of destiny — epithet of Napoleon I.
  • man of galilee — Jesus.
  • manifestations — An event, action, or object that clearly shows or embodies something, esp. a theory or an abstract idea.
  • metafictionist — A writer of metafiction.
  • microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
  • microfinancier — A person or organisation offering microfinance.
  • 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.
  • misinformation — to give false or misleading information to.
  • misinformative — to give false or misleading information to.
  • misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
  • 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.
  • mongolian fold — epicanthus.
  • morgain le fay — Morgan le Fay.
  • mortifications — Plural form of mortification.
  • nanofiltration — Pressure-driven filtration through a membrane that removes particles of about two nanometres or larger.
  • national front — (in Britain) a small political party of the right with racist and other extremist policies
  • neurofibromata — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
  • nitrofurantoin — an antimicrobial substance, C 8 H 6 N 4 O 5 , used for the treatment of urinary tract infections.
  • no fixed abode — If someone has no fixed abode, they are homeless.
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