14-letter words containing f, i, r, n
- bullion fringe — a thick gold or silver wire or fringed cord used as a trimming, as on military uniforms
- burnt offering — a sacrificial offering burnt, usually on an altar, to honour, propitiate, or supplicate a deity
- butterfingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
- cafeteria plan — a fringe-benefit plan under which employees may choose from among various benefits those that best fit their needs, up to a specified dollar value.
- calorification — the production of heat
- can ill afford — If you say that someone can ill afford to do something, or can ill afford something, you mean that they must prevent it from happening because it would be harmful or embarrassing to them.
- canicola fever — an acute febrile disease of humans and dogs, characterized by inflammation of the stomach and intestines and by jaundice: caused by a spirochete, Leptospira canicola.
- 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
- center fielder — the player whose position is center field.
- 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.
- chief engineer — the senior engineer on board a ship
- 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.
- circumferences — Plural form of circumference.
- circumferentor — an instrument that measures the circumference of a tyre
- circumfixation — a prefix and a suffix attached to a root or stem, as the a and -ing in a-going.
- clarifications — Plural form of clarification.
- 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.
- coffee grinder — A coffee grinder is a machine for grinding coffee beans.
- coffee morning — A coffee morning is a social event at which coffee and tea are served. It takes place in the morning, and is usually intended to raise money for charity.
- combining form — A combining form is a word that is used, or used with a particular meaning, only when joined to another word. For example, '-legged' as in 'four-legged' and '-fold' as in 'fivefold' are combining forms.
- comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
- confederations — Plural form of confederation.
- configuraholic — (jargon) A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
- configurations — Plural form of configuration.
- confirmability — the quality of being confirmable
- confirmational — providing proof or supporting evidence
- conflagrations — Plural form of conflagration.
- conformability — Conformableness.
- conformational — manner of formation; structure; form, as of a physical entity.
- confrontations — Plural form of confrontation.
- coniferophytes — Plural form of coniferophyte.
- contour flying — the technique of flying at a constant altitude of less than 22.8 metres (75 feet) above the ground.
- council of war — A council of war is a meeting that is held in order to decide how a particular threat or emergency should be dealt with.
- counterfeiters — Plural form of counterfeiter.
- counterfeiting — the making of fraudulent copies; forgery
- crime fighting — the series of measures and actions taken by the forces of the law to combat crime
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- cylinder front — a front cover for a desk or the like, consisting either of a solid piece or of a tambour sliding up and back in quadrantal grooves.
- 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
- 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.