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14-letter words containing f, n, o

  • inferior court — a court of limited jurisdiction
  • inferior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned below the receptacle of a flower, as in members of the iris family.
  • inferoanterior — below and in front.
  • infix notation — (language)   One of the possible orderings of functions and operands: in infix notation the functions are placed between their operands, such as "1+2". Although infix notation is limited to binary functions most languages mix infix notation with prefix or postfix notation, as a form of syntactic sugar.
  • inflammatories — Plural form of inflammatory.
  • inflation rate — economy: price increase
  • inflectionless — Without inflection.
  • inflorescences — Plural form of inflorescence.
  • infopreneurial — of or relating to the manufacture or sales of electronic office or factory equipment designed to distribute information
  • infratentorial — (anatomy) refers to a location below the tentorium cerebelli.
  • inquiry office — an office or department of a business, organization, etc, which deals with inquiries or requests for information
  • inside forward — one of two attacking players whose usual position is between the center forward and one of the wings.
  • instead of sth — If you do one thing instead of another, you do the first thing and not the second thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour.
  • interdiffusion — mutual diffusion of fluids
  • interferometer — Optics. a device that separates a beam of light into two ray beams, usually by means of reflection, and that brings the rays together to produce interference, used to measure wavelength, index of refraction, and astronomical distances.
  • interferometry — Optics. a device that separates a beam of light into two ray beams, usually by means of reflection, and that brings the rays together to produce interference, used to measure wavelength, index of refraction, and astronomical distances.
  • intrafallopian — occurring within either of the Fallopian tubes
  • isle of france — Île-de-France
  • 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)
  • it's not as if — You use 'It's not as if' to introduce a statement which, if it were true, might explain something puzzling, although in fact it is not true.
  • jack-in-office — a self-important petty official
  • jefferson city — a city in and the capital of Missouri, in the central part, on the Missouri River.
  • jeffersonville — a city in S Indiana, on the Ohio River.
  • john atanasoff — John Vincent Atanasoff
  • john c fremont — John Charles, 1813–90, U.S. general and explorer: first Republican presidential candidate, 1856.
  • john of leyden — Lucas van Leyden.
  • junior officer — an officer who is not in overall command of a military unit
  • justifications — Plural form of justification.
  • karstification — the process of turning into karst
  • king of beasts — the lion.
  • lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
  • land of beulah — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) the peaceful land in which the pilgrim awaits the call to the Celestial City.
  • law of cosines — a law stating that the square of a side of a plane triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides minus twice the product of the other sides multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them.
  • law of nations — international law.
  • leaf-nosed bat — any of various New and Old World bats, as of the families Phyllostomatidae, Rhinolophidae, and Hipposideridae, having a leaflike flap of skin at the tip of the nose.
  • left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
  • left-of-center — holding liberal views in politics; left-wing.
  • left-of-centre — Left-of-centre people or political parties support political ideas which are closer to socialism than to capitalism.
  • lend itself to — to be adapted to, useful for, or open to
  • let oneself go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • 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.
  • lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
  • line of attack — a line of attack to a problem or situation is how you approach it
  • line of battle — a line formed by troops or ships for delivering or receiving an attack.
  • line of credit — credit line (def 2).
  • line of flight — the flight path of something travelling from one place to another
  • line of vision — a straight line that connects the fovea centralis of an eye with the point on which the eye focuses.
  • logania family — the plant family Loganiaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs of warm regions having usually opposite leaves, clusters of regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or fleshy fruit, and including the butterfly bush, Carolina jessamine, logania, and trees of the genus Strychnos, which are the source of curare, nux vomica, and strychnine.
  • long-forgotten — belonging to the past; no longer remembered
  • long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
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