14-letter words containing f, o, e, t, a
- flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
- flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
- flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
- floating heart — any of certain aquatic plants belonging to the genus Nymphoides, of the gentian family, especially N. aquatica, having floating, more or less heart-shaped leaves and a cluster of small, white, five-petaled flowers.
- floating voter — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
- flotsam-jetsam — the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating on the water. Compare jetsam, lagan.
- flowers of tan — a common slime mold, Fuligo septica, of the central and eastern U.S., having large sporophores and yellowish, foamy plasmodia, that during a wet growing season may spread to cover large areas of lawns, woody debris, and growing plants.
- foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
- focal distance — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
- foley catheter — an indwelling catheter used for draining urine from the bladder and having an inflatable part at the bladder end that allows the tube to be kept in place for variable time periods.
- foliated joint — a joint between the rabbeted and overlapping edges of two boards, forming a continuous surface on each side.
- follow the sea — to make one's living by serving on oceangoing ships
- fonthill abbey — a ruined Gothic Revival mansion in Wiltshire: rebuilt (1790–1810) for William Beckford by James Wyatt; the main tower collapsed in 1800 and, after rebuilding, again in 1827
- food-gathering — procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
- foolscap sheet — a sheet of foolscap paper
- foot passenger — sb travelling on a boat without a car
- football field — ground where soccer is played
- footplatewoman — a female footplate worker
- for one's part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
- force of habit — behavior occurring without thought and by virtue of constant repetition; habit.
- force the pace — to adopt a high speed or rate of procedure
- fore-and-after — Nautical. a sailing vessel with a fore-and-aft rig. a beam running fore and aft across a hatchway to support hatch covers laid athwart the hatchway. a vessel having a sharp stern; a double ender.
- forenoon watch — the watch from 8 a.m. until noon.
- foreordination — previous ordination or appointment.
- foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- forest of dean — a royal forest in Gloucestershire, in W England. About 180 sq. mi. (475 sq. km).
- forisfamiliate — to free from paternal authority
- formal methods — (mathematics, specification) Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- fort mcclellan — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Alabama, NE of Anniston.
- fort-de-france — an island in the E West Indies; an overseas department of France. 425 sq. mi. (1100 sq. km). Capital: Fort-de-France.
- forward market — future commodities trading
- foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
- foxtail millet — a grass, Setaria italica, of numerous varieties, introduced into the U.S. from Europe and Asia, and grown chiefly for use as hay.
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
- fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
- franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
- fraternisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of fraternization.
- fraternization — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
- free variation — a relation between the members of a pair of phones, phonemes, morphs, or other linguistic entities such that either of the two may occur in the same position with no change in the meaning of the utterance: in the first syllable of “economics,” “e” and “ē” are in free variation.
- free vibration — the vibration of a structure that occurs at its natural frequency, as opposed to a forced vibration
- free-associate — to engage in free association.
- frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
- friction layer — the atmospheric layer extending up to about 600 m, in which the aerodynamic effects of surface friction are appreciable
- front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
- front-end load — the sales commission and other fees taken out of the first year's payment under a contractual plan for purchasing shares of a mutual fund (front-end load fund) over a period of years.
- frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
- frontoparietal — of or relating to the frontal and parietal bones of the cranium.