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14-letter words containing f, i, r, e, a

  • cape guardafui — a cape at the NE tip of Somalia, extending into the Indian Ocean
  • careers office — a room or building in which vocational advice can be obtained from a Careers Officer and which often also has books, leaflets, etc on careers
  • carrion feeder — any animal that feeds on dead and rotting flesh
  • carrion flower — a liliaceous climbing plant, Smilax herbacea of E North America, whose small green flowers smell like decaying flesh
  • central office — (communications)   The place where telephone companies terminate customer lines and locate switching equipment to interconnect those lines with other networks.
  • centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
  • centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
  • certifications — Plural form of certification.
  • certified mail — If you send a letter or package by certified mail, you send it using a mail service which gives you an official record of the fact that it has been mailed and delivered.
  • charter flight — a flight booked by a holiday company to transport their customers
  • chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
  • christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
  • cliffside park — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • climbing frame — A climbing frame is a structure that has been made for children to climb and play on. It consists of metal or wooden bars joined together.
  • comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
  • confederations — Plural form of confederation.
  • crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
  • crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • dead sea fruit — something that appears to be beautiful or full of promise but is in reality nothing but illusion and disappointment.
  • defective year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
  • defenestrating — Present participle of defenestrate.
  • defenestration — the act of throwing someone out of a window
  • defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
  • defibrillation — the application of an electric current to the heart to restore normal rhythmic contractions after the onset of atrial or ventricular fibrillation
  • defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
  • deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
  • denitrificator — an apparatus which is used in denitrification, particularly in sulphuric acid works
  • diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
  • diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
  • different than — different from
  • differentiable — capable of being differentiated.
  • differentially — of or relating to difference or diversity.
  • differentiated — Recognize or ascertain what makes (someone or something) different.
  • differentiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of differentiate.
  • differentiator — a person or thing that differentiates.
  • diffractometer — an instrument that is used to study atomic crystal structure by measuring the angles at which x-rays, neutrons, or electrons are diffracted by matter.
  • diffractometry — The elucidation of the structures of crystalline materials by the use of X-ray diffraction.
  • disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
  • discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
  • disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
  • disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
  • disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
  • drawing office — an office where drawings are made
  • driftless area — a tract of land that was once surrounded but never covered by a continental glacier, consequently having no glacial deposits.
  • drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
  • effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • engine failure — failure to operate by the engine of an aircraft, car, or other vehicle
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