14-letter words containing f, i, r, e, c, s
- french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
- fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
- frolicsomeness — The quality of being frolicsome; playfulness.
- fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
- grief-stricken — overwhelmed by grief; deeply afflicted or sorrowful.
- heterospecific — belonging to a different species or group
- indifferences' — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
- inflorescences — Plural form of inflorescence.
- infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
- isle of france — Île-de-France
- jefferson city — a city in and the capital of Missouri, in the central part, on the Missouri River.
- life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
- life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.
- massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
- microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
- midlife crisis — a period of psychological stress occurring in middle age, thought to be triggered by a physical, occupational, or domestic event, as menopause, diminution of physical prowess, job loss, or departure of children from the home.
- mischief-maker — a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.
- misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
- officers' mess — a place where officers eat or take recreation
- pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
- packet sniffer — (networking, tool) A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
- perfectibilism — the belief in the perfectibility of human nature
- perfectibilist — (predominantly in relation to the Illuminati) a person who believes that a given thing, usually human nature, is perfectible
- perfectiveness — the state or quality of being perfective
- porcupine fish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- prison officer — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- recessionproof — not susceptible to an economic recession: a recessionproof economy; He wants a long-term contract to make his job recessionproof.
- reflectionless — unable to reflect, not possessing a reflection
- reflectiveness — that reflects; reflecting.
- refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
- reinforcements — the act of reinforcing.
- resinification — to convert into a resin.
- ross ice shelf — an ice barrier filling the S part of the Ross Sea.
- sacchariferous — containing or yielding sugar.
- sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
- safety circuit — a type of electronic circuit that prevents malfunction by stopping the flow of current or sounding an alert.
- safety curtain — a sheet of asbestos or other fireproof material that can be lowered just inside the proscenium arch in case of fire, sealing off the backstage area from the auditorium.
- safety officer — The safety officer in a company or an organization is the person who is responsible for the safety of the people who work or visit there.
- saxifragaceous — belonging to the plant family Saxifragaceae.
- schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- scsi interface — SCSI adaptor
- self-criticism — the act or fact of being self-critical.
- self-described — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- self-directing — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- self-directive — serving to direct; directing: a directive board.
- self-discovery — process of understanding oneself