14-letter words containing f, i, o
- 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.
- line of credit — credit line (def 2).
- line of flight — the flight path of something travelling from one place to another
- line of vision — a straight line that connects the fovea centralis of an eye with the point on which the eye focuses.
- lobelia family — the plant family Lobeliaceae (sometimes considered a subfamily, Lobelioideae, of the Campanulaceae, or bellflower family), typified by usually herbaceous plants having milky sap, simple alternate leaves, irregular two-lipped flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the cardinal flower, Indian tobacco, and lobelia.
- 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.
- long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- 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
- make little of — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
- 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.
- maxis software — The developers of SimCity and SimCity 2000. Address: 2 Theatre Square, Suite 230, Orinda, CA 94563-3346, USA. Telephone: +1 (800) 33-MAXIS.
- meadow salsify — a European weedy, composite plant, Tragopogon pratensis, naturalized in North America, having grasslike leaves and yellow flowers.
- metafictionist — A writer of metafiction.
- microfibrillar — Of or pertaining to microfibrils.
- microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
- microfinancier — A person or organisation offering microfinance.
- microfortnight — One millionth of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measurement; 1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel; the mass unit of the system is taken to be a firkin of water). The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realises that the current value is bogus. This time is specified in microfortnights! Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnight have also been reported.
- microsoft mail — (messaging, tool) (MS Mail) A Microsoft Windows electronic mail program.
- microsoft word — (text, tool, product) A popular word processor, part of the Microsoft Office suite. The original Word (versions 1.0 to 4.?/5.0?) was originally text-based (non-GUI) and ran under MS-DOS. Then Microsoft released Word for Windows 1.0 and 2.0. Later they produced new versions for each OS, both numbered 6.0.
- mid wicket off — mid off.
- 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.
- mixed foursome — a foursome of two teams, each comprised of a man and a woman.
- molecular film — a film or layer one molecule thick.
- 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.
- moon jellyfish — a coelenterate, Aurelia aurita, inhabiting all seas, having a luminescent milky-pink or milky-orange, umbrellalike disk 3–9 inches (8–23 cm) in diameter.
- moonlight flit — a hurried departure at night, esp from rented accommodation to avoid payment of rent owed
- morgain le fay — Morgan le Fay.
- morning coffee — a mid-morning snack with a cup of coffee drunk during a short break at work, or in your house, when you might invite someone in
- mortifications — Plural form of mortification.
- mosquito fleet — a group or fleet of PT boats or other small, armed boats.
- mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- multi-function — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- multifactorial — having or stemming from a number of different causes or influences: Some medical researchers regard cancer as a multifactorial disease.
- multifariously — In a multifarious manner.
- muni bond fund — municipal bond fund.
- myofibroblasts — Plural form of myofibroblast.
- 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