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14-letter words containing f, l, i, t, s

  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • if it kills me — If you say that you will do something if it kills you, you are emphasizing that you are determined to do it even though it is extremely difficult or painful.
  • ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
  • in lieu of sth — If you do, get, or give one thing in lieu of another, you do, get, or give it instead of the other thing, because the two things are considered to have the same value or importance.
  • infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
  • infinitesimals — Plural form of infinitesimal.
  • inflammatories — Plural form of inflammatory.
  • inflectionless — Without inflection.
  • insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
  • insufficiently — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
  • intestinal flu — influenza with abdominal symptoms, as diarrhea or vomiting.
  • isle of thanet — an island in SE England, in NE Kent, separated from the mainland by two branches of the River Stour: scene of many Norse invasions. Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
  • justifiability — capable of being justified; that can be shown to be or can be defended as being just, right, or warranted; defensible: justifiable homicide.
  • kaieteur falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
  • kaieteur-falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
  • keep-fit class — an exercise class designed to promote physical fitness
  • kettle of fish — an awkward, difficult, or bad situation; muddle; mess: He's managed to get himself into a fine kettle of fish!
  • labyrinth fish — any of several freshwater fishes of the order Labyrinthi, found in southeastern Asia and Africa, having a labyrinthine structure above each gill chamber enabling them to breathe air while out of water.
  • lake whitefish — a whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska, used for food.
  • law of nations — international law.
  • lend itself to — to be adapted to, useful for, or open to
  • life president — the president of a club, society, etc, who will remain president until death
  • lifestyle guru — a person hired to give someone advice on various aspects of his or her life, work, and relationships
  • light the fuse — If someone or something lights the fuse of a particular situation or activity, they suddenly get it started.
  • lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
  • microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
  • microsoft mail — (messaging, tool)   (MS Mail) A Microsoft Windows electronic mail program.
  • moment of sail — the product of a given area of sail, taken as the maximum safe area, and the vertical distance from the center of effort and the center of lateral resistance.
  • mosquito fleet — a group or fleet of PT boats or other small, armed boats.
  • multifariously — In a multifarious manner.
  • music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
  • mustard family — the plant family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate leaves, acrid or pungent juice, clusters of four-petaled flowers, and fruit in the form of a two-parted capsule, and including broccoli, cabbage, candytuft, cauliflower, cress, mustard, radish, sweet alyssum, turnip, and wallflower.
  • myofibroblasts — Plural form of myofibroblast.
  • nonfilamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
  • nonformalistic — Not formalistic.
  • nt file system — (file system)   (NTFS) The native file system of Windows NT.
  • opposite field — the opposite part of the outfield in relation to the batter, as left field for a right-handed batter.
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • pacifistically — from a pacifistic point of view
  • patresfamilias — a plural of paterfamilias.
  • 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.
  • perfectibilism — the belief in the perfectibility of human nature
  • perfectibilist — (predominantly in relation to the Illuminati) a person who believes that a given thing, usually human nature, is perfectible
  • pigs might fly — If you say 'pigs might fly' after someone has said that something might happen, you are emphasizing that you think it is very unlikely.
  • portrait flask — a glass flask of the 19th century having a portrait molded onto the side.
  • potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
  • qualifications — Plural form of qualification.
  • radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
  • reflectionless — unable to reflect, not possessing a reflection
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