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

  • national front — (in Britain) a small political party of the right with racist and other extremist policies
  • non-fraudulent — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
  • nonforfeitable — a fine; penalty.
  • nonformalistic — Not formalistic.
  • norfolk jacket — a loosely belted single-breasted jacket, with box pleats in front and back.
  • olfactory bulb — the enlarged terminal part of each olfactory lobe from which the olfactory nerve originates.
  • olfactory lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, involved with olfactory functions.
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • parallel forth — Forth For the MPP.
  • party official — an official of a political party
  • pay for itself — If something that you buy or invest in pays for itself after a period of time, the money you gain from it, or save because you have it, is greater than the amount you originally spent or invested.
  • performability — the quality of being performable
  • personal staff — the aides of a general officer or a flag officer.
  • platform frame — a building frame having studs only one story high, regardless of the number of stories built, each story having a box sill.
  • platform party — the group on the platform at a meeting
  • platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
  • platform soles — very thick soles on a pair of shoes
  • portrait flask — a glass flask of the 19th century having a portrait molded onto the side.
  • poultry farmer — a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
  • preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • quality factor — a property of ionizing radiations that affects their ability to cause biological effects. For weakly ionizing radiations such as gamma rays it has value 1 whilst for alpha rays it is about 20
  • reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
  • relexification — to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
  • repeat oneself — to say or do the same thing more than once, esp so as to be tedious
  • route flapping — flapping router
  • sales forecast — a prediction of future sales of a product, either judgmental or based on previous sales patterns
  • satisfactorily — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
  • school of arts — a public building in a small town, originally one used for adult education
  • self-adornment — something that adds attractiveness; ornament; accessory: the adornments and furnishings of a room.
  • self-assertion — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
  • self-formation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
  • self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
  • self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
  • self-operating — automatic.
  • self-operative — automatic.
  • shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
  • skeleton draft — a basic or minimum draft or outline
  • space platform — space station.
  • staff corporal — a noncommissioned rank in the British Army above that of staff sergeant and below that of warrant officer
  • stagflationary — of, caused by, or relating to, stagflation
  • steer clear of — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
  • store of value — the function of money that enables goods and services to be paid for a considerable time after they have been acquired
  • superinflation — hyperinflation.
  • take the floor — that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
  • the final four — the last four teams remaining in a tournament
  • thermoformable — having the ability to be shaped using heat and pressure
  • thomas raffles — Sir Thomas Stamford, 1781–1826, English colonial administrator in the East Indies.
  • tower of babel — an ancient city in the land of Shinar in which the building of a tower (Tower of Babel) intended to reach heaven was begun and the confusion of the language of the people took place. Gen. 11:4–9.
  • traffic holdup — a temporary stoppage in the flow of traffic where a number of vehicles are obstructed and unable to move
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