0%

14-letter words containing f, l, a, t, i, o

  • false position — a situation in which a person is forced to act or seems to be acting against his principles or interests
  • false positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
  • false relation — a harmonic clash that occurs when a note in one part sounds simultaneously with or immediately before or after its chromatically altered (sharpened or flattened) equivalent appearing in another part
  • false-positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
  • family compact — any influential clique
  • family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
  • fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
  • fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
  • federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
  • federalization — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
  • fertilizations — Plural form of fertilization.
  • fetal position — a bodily posture resembling that of the fetus in the uterus, in which the body is curled with head and limbs drawn in, sometimes assumed in states of fear or emotional withdrawal.
  • fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
  • fictionalizing — Present participle of fictionalize.
  • field hospital — an organization of medical personnel with medical equipment for establishing a temporary hospital at isolated posts or in the field to support ground troops in combat.
  • figwort family — the plant family Scrophulariaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having alternate or opposite leaves, often showy two-lipped or irregular flowers, fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the figwort, foxglove, Indian paintbrush, mullein, speedwell, and snapdragon.
  • file separator — (character)   (FS) ASCII character 28.
  • final solution — the Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich.
  • finlandization — the neutralization of a country in terms of its allegiance to the superpowers, in the way that the Soviet Union rendered Finland neutral and friendly without making it a satellite state or requiring that it adopt Communism.
  • fissionability — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
  • flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
  • flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
  • flashing point — flash point (def 1).
  • floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
  • floating heart — any of certain aquatic plants belonging to the genus Nymphoides, of the gentian family, especially N. aquatica, having floating, more or less heart-shaped leaves and a cluster of small, white, five-petaled flowers.
  • floating point — a decimal point whose location is not fixed, used especially in computer operations.
  • floating stock — stock not held for permanent investment and hence available for speculation; stock held by brokers and speculators rather than investors.
  • floating voter — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
  • floating-point — a decimal point whose location is not fixed, used especially in computer operations.
  • florida strait — a strait between Florida, Cuba, and the Bahamas, connecting the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic.
  • florida-strait — a state in the SE United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. 58,560 sq. mi. (151,670 sq. km). Capital: Tallahassee. Abbreviation: FL (for use with zip code), Fla.
  • florists' foam — a rigid, deformable, spongelike plastic used in floral arrangements to secure the stems of flowers.
  • flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea
  • flotation tank — an enclosed ventilated tank filled with a saline solution at body temperature, in which a person floats in darkness in order to relax or meditate
  • fluoridization — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
  • foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
  • focal distance — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
  • foliated joint — a joint between the rabbeted and overlapping edges of two boards, forming a continuous surface on each side.
  • fonthill abbey — a ruined Gothic Revival mansion in Wiltshire: rebuilt (1790–1810) for William Beckford by James Wyatt; the main tower collapsed in 1800 and, after rebuilding, again in 1827
  • football field — ground where soccer is played
  • football pitch — ground where soccer is played
  • foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
  • forisfamiliate — to free from paternal authority
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • foundationally — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
  • foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
  • fountain plant — Joseph's-coat.
  • foxtail millet — a grass, Setaria italica, of numerous varieties, introduced into the U.S. from Europe and Asia, and grown chiefly for use as hay.
  • fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?