14-letter words containing f, l, e, s
- copper sulfate — a blue, crystalline substance, CuSO4·5H2O, that effloresces and turns white when heated; blue vitriol: used in making pigments, germicides, batteries, etc.
- coriolis force — a fictitious force used to explain a deflection in the path of a body moving in latitude relative to the earth when observed from the earth. The deflection (Coriolis effect) is due to the earth's rotation and is to the east when the motion is towards a pole
- crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
- crystal defect — defect (def 3).
- daisy fleabane — a North American composite plant, Erigeron annuus, having hairy stems and numerous, small, daisylike flowers with narrow white rays.
- declassifiable — Suitable to be declassified.
- defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
- delightfulness — The state or quality of being delightful.
- despitefulness — The state or quality of being despiteful.
- diffuse nebula — nebula (def 1a).
- diffusion line — a range of clothes made by a top fashion designer for a high-street retailer
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- disdainfulness — The state or quality of being disdainful.
- disgustfulness — the quality of being disgustful
- disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
- do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
- driftless area — a tract of land that was once surrounded but never covered by a continental glacier, consequently having no glacial deposits.
- earl of surrey — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
- effervescently — effervescing; bubbling.
- effortlessness — The state of being effortless; facility.
- electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
- elevator shaft — passage for a lift
- emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
- english muffin — crumpet
- excuse oneself — to ask that one's fault be overlooked; apologize
- expose oneself — to display one's sexual organs in public
- faeroe islands — group of Danish islands in the N Atlantic, between Iceland & the Shetland Islands: 540 sq mi (1,399 sq km); pop. 44,000
- fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
- fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
- false beginner — a language student who has some knowledge of a language, but who needs to start again from the beginning
- false negative — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test failed to recognize an existing condition or finding. a person who receives this test result.
- 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 scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
- false-negative — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test failed to recognize an existing condition or finding. a person who receives this test result.
- 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.
- falseheartedly — In a falsehearted manner.
- faraday shield — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
- farm-gate sale — the sale of produce direct from the producer
- farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
- fatherlessness — The state or quality of being fatherless.
- fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- feast of fools — (especially in France) a mock-religious celebration in the Middle Ages, held on or about January 1.
- federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
- feel one's way — to move or advance cautiously, by or as if by groping
- felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
- fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.