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14-letter words containing f, l, o

  • preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • pride of place — the highest or most outstanding position; first place.
  • professionally — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
  • proxy conflict — a conflict between third parties, through whom enemies attack each other
  • public officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
  • purposefulness — having a purpose.
  • qualifications — Plural form of qualification.
  • 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
  • quasi-informal — without formality or ceremony; casual: an informal visit.
  • quasi-official — a person appointed or elected to an office or charged with certain duties.
  • quinquefoliate — (of leaves) having or consisting of five leaflets
  • reflectionless — unable to reflect, not possessing a reflection
  • 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
  • reflexological — of or relating to reflexology
  • 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
  • retroreflector — See under retroreflective.
  • revolving fund — any loan fund intended to be maintained by the repayment of past loans.
  • right-to-lifer — someone who supports the right to life of the unborn and opposes abortion, experiments on embryos, etc
  • roll of honour — A roll of honour is a list of the names of people who are admired or respected for something they have done, such as doing very well in a sport or exam.
  • rooting reflex — a reflex in infants in which the head is turned towards any stimulus; used to find the nipple
  • ross ice shelf — an ice barrier filling the S part of the Ross Sea.
  • route flapping — flapping router
  • ruhmkorff coil — induction coil.
  • rule of eleven — the rule that when a player leads his or her fourth-highest card in any suit its numerical value subtracted from eleven gives the number of higher cards of that suit held by the other players.
  • rules of order — the rules by which a legislative or deliberative assembly governs its proceedings; parliamentary law.
  • sales forecast — a prediction of future sales of a product, either judgmental or based on previous sales patterns
  • salmon fishing — the sport of angling for salmon
  • sanford b dole — Robert J(oseph) born 1923, U.S. politician: senator 1969–96.
  • satisfactional — an act of satisfying; fulfillment; gratification.
  • satisfactorily — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
  • sb will go far — If you say that someone will go far, you mean that they will be very successful in their career.
  • school of arts — a public building in a small town, originally one used for adult education
  • school of mind — (in Chinese philosophy) a Neo-Confucian school asserting the original unity of all things, to be grasped through the perfect attainment of jen.
  • school uniform — standard outfit worn by pupils
  • sea of galilee — a lake in NE Israel, 209 m (686 ft) below sea level, through which the River Jordan flows. Area: 165 sq km (64 sq miles)
  • sean o'faolain — Seán [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1900–91, Irish writer and teacher.
  • self professed — avowed; acknowledged.
  • self-abandoned — lacking self-control; giving in to one's impulses.
  • self-adornment — something that adds attractiveness; ornament; accessory: the adornments and furnishings of a room.
  • self-adulation — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
  • self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
  • self-assertion — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
  • self-collected — having or showing self-control; composed; self-possessed.
  • self-communion — (often initial capital letter). Also called Holy Communion. Ecclesiastical. the act of receiving the Eucharistic elements. the elements of the Eucharist. the celebration of the Eucharist. the antiphon sung at a Eucharistic service.
  • self-composure — calmness and self-possession
  • self-conceited — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
  • self-condemned — to express an unfavorable or adverse judgment on; indicate strong disapproval of; censure.
  • self-confessed — openly admitting to being a type of person with a particular quality, habit, character, etc.: He's a self-confessed gambler.
  • self-confident — realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
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