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

  • field of force — the region of space surrounding a body, such as a charged particle or a magnet, within which it can exert a force on another similar body not in contact with it
  • field of honor — the scene of a battle or duel.
  • field strength — the intensity of an electromagnetic wave at any point in the area covered by a radio or television transmitter
  • fiery-tempered — easily angered
  • fiesta taurina — fiesta de toros.
  • fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
  • fighter-bomber — an aircraft that combines the functions of a fighter and a bomber.
  • figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
  • figure skating — ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice.
  • figure-hugging — Figure-hugging clothes fit very close to the body of the person who is wearing them. Figure-hugging is usually used to describe clothes worn by women.
  • file separator — (character)   (FS) ASCII character 28.
  • file signature — A magic number.
  • fillister head — a cylindrical screw head.
  • film projector — an optical instrument in which a strip of film is wound past a lens at a fixed speed so that the frames can be viewed as a continuously moving sequence on a screen or wall
  • filter feeding — a method of feeding occurring in some aquatic animals, such as planktonic invertebrates and whalebone whales, in which minute food particles are filtered from the surrounding water
  • finance charge — interest or a fee charged for borrowing money or buying on credit.
  • financial year — law: annual accounting period
  • fine structure — a group of lines that are observed in the spectra of certain elements, as hydrogen, and that are caused by various couplings of the azimuthal quantum number and the angular momentum quantum number.
  • fineness ratio — Aeronautics. the ratio of the length of a streamlined body, as a rocket or airplane hull, to its maximum diameter.
  • finger reading — the reading of Braille by means of the fingertips.
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • fingerlessness — Absence of fingers.
  • fingerpointing — Alternative form of finger-pointing.
  • fingerprinting — Present participle of fingerprint.
  • fingerspelling — the communication in sign language of a word or other expression by rendering its written form letter by letter in a manual alphabet.
  • finsteraarhorn — a mountain in S central Switzerland: highest peak of the Bernese Alps, 14,026 feet (4275 meters).
  • fire apparatus — equipment for extinguishing destructive fires.
  • fire insurance — insurance covering any loss or damage caused by fire.
  • fire-resistant — totally or almost totally unburnable.
  • fire-retardant — able to slow or check the spread of destructive fire.
  • fireman's lift — a method of carrying a person, in which you put one shoulder into the person's midriff, lift them and carry them with their head arms and upper torso hanging down your back while you grip their legs with one hand (leaving your other hand free to hold the ladder as you climb down)
  • fireproof dish — a dish that can withstand heat
  • fireproof door — a door that is designed to prevent fire from spreading
  • fireside chats — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
  • fireworks mode — The mode a machine is sometimes said to be in when it is performing a crash and burn operation.
  • first language — mother tongue
  • first minister — In the Scottish Assembly and the Northern Ireland Assembly, the First Minister is the leader of the ruling party.
  • first mortgage — a mortgage having priority over other mortgages on property.
  • first offender — a person convicted of an offense of law for the first time.
  • first quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the smallest quartile; the twenty-fifth percentile; the value of the variable below which one quarter of the elements are located.
  • first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
  • first sergeant — the senior noncommissioned officer of a company, squadron, etc., responsible for personnel and administration.
  • firth of clyde — an inlet of the Atlantic in SW Scotland. Length: 103 km (64 miles)
  • firth-of-clyde — a river in S Scotland, flowing NW into the Firth of Clyde. 106 miles (170 km) long.
  • fishing permit — an official document which allows you to fish in a particular area of water
  • fitness center — A fitness center in a hotel is a large room, usually containing special equipment, where people go to do physical exercise and get fit.
  • fitness centre — a place which has gym equipment
  • five-year plan — any plan for national economic or industrial development specifying goals to be reached within a period of five years, especially as undertaken by the Soviet Union and China.
  • flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flagelliferous — bearing a flagellum
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