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14-letter words containing f, l, e, t, y

  • gentian family — the plant family Gentianaceae, typified by herbaceous plants having simple opposite leaves, usually blue flowers with five united petals, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the closed gentian, fringed gentian, centaury, exacum, and marsh pink.
  • half-heartedly — having or showing little enthusiasm: a halfhearted attempt to work.
  • halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
  • horn of plenty — cornucopia.
  • hyperinflation — extreme or excessive inflation.
  • indefinability — The quality of being indefinable.
  • ineffectuality — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
  • infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
  • insufficiently — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
  • kentucky rifle — a long-barreled muzzleloading flintlock rifle developed near Lancaster, Pa., in the early 18th century and widely used on the frontier.
  • leaf butterfly — any of various butterflies of the genus Kallima, of southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia, having wings that resemble dead leaves.
  • left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
  • lifestyle guru — a person hired to give someone advice on various aspects of his or her life, work, and relationships
  • merthyr tydfil — an administrative district in Mid Glamorgan, in S Wales. 43 sq. mi. (113 sq. km).
  • methoxyflurane — a potent substance, C 3 H 4 Cl 2 F 2 O, used as an analgesic in minor surgical procedures and less frequently as a general anesthetic.
  • methyl formate — a colorless, water-soluble, flammable liquid, C 2 H 4 O 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis and as a solvent.
  • multifrequency — Of or pertaining to multiple frequencies.
  • new forest fly — a blood-sucking fly, Hippobosca equinus, that attacks horses and cattle
  • nt file system — (file system)   (NTFS) The native file system of Windows NT.
  • olfactory lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, involved with olfactory functions.
  • partially deaf — suffering from hearing loss; partly deaf
  • 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.
  • perfectibility — capable of becoming or of being made perfect; improvable.
  • performability — the quality of being performable
  • petty official — a minor official in government, etc
  • play the field — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
  • play with fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
  • poultry farmer — a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
  • preferentially — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
  • rafferty rules — no rules at all
  • rectifiability — the quality or state of being rectifiable
  • referentiality — the quality or state of being referential or containing references
  • 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
  • refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
  • safety islands — a group of three small French islands in the Atlantic, off the coast of French Guiana
  • scientifically — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
  • self-enjoyment — the act of enjoying.
  • self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
  • self-stability — the state or quality of being stable.
  • seyfert galaxy — one of a group of spiral galaxies with compact, bright nuclei having characteristically broad emission lines suggestive of very hot gases in violent motion at the center.
  • superficiality — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • synaptic cleft — the small gap, measured in nanometers, between an axon terminal and any of the cell membranes in the immediate vicinity.
  • synthetic fuel — fuel in the form of liquid or gas (synthetic natural gas) manufactured from coal or in the form of oil extracted from shale or tar sands.
  • the full monty — something in its entirety
  • the loony left — the extreme left
  • tyndall effect — the visible path of light produced by the scattering action (Tyndall effect) of the particles in a colloidal solution on a beam of light passed through it.
  • tyndall-effect — the visible path of light produced by the scattering action (Tyndall effect) of the particles in a colloidal solution on a beam of light passed through it.
  • unflatteringly — in an unflattering manner
  • unlawful entry — clandestine, forced, or fraudulent entry into a premises, without the permission of its owner or occupant
  • unreflectingly — in an unreflecting manner
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