14-letter words containing f, o, r, e, i, t
- nine-to-fivers — of, relating to, or during the workday, especially the hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. when offices are characteristically open for business: the nine-to-five grind.
- nitrogen fixer — any of various microorganisms in the soil involved in the process of nitrogen fixation.
- non-reflection — the act of reflecting, as in casting back a light or heat, mirroring, or giving back or showing an image; the state of being reflected in this way.
- non-reflective — not capable of or not designed to reflect light
- non-stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
- nondiffractive — Not diffractive.
- nonfinite verb — a verb form that does not indicate person or number; in English, the infinitive and participles.
- nonforfeitable — a fine; penalty.
- noninterfering — Not interfering.
- not forgetting — You say not forgetting a particular thing or person when you want to include them in something that you have already talked about.
- of a certainty — without a doubt; certainly
- of one's birth — The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born.
- order of merit — an order conferred on civilians and servicemen for eminence in any field
- over-confident — too confident.
- overfastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- overrefinement — excessive or unnecessary refinement.
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- oyster farming — the activity of cultivating oysters for food or pearls
- pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
- 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.
- performability — the quality of being performable
- pinxter flower — a variety of azalea (Rhododendron nudiflorum) with pink, sweet-smelling flowers, purplish-red at the base
- point of order — a question raised as to whether proceedings are in order, or in conformity with parliamentary law.
- potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
- prefabrication — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- prettification — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
- preunification — of the period before unification
- profit squeeze — a sharp narrowing of the gap between cost and revenue.
- profit-seeking — attempting to make a profit or financial gains
- proof positive — To be proof positive of a particular fact or quality means to be evidence that it is true or that it exists.
- proximity fuse — an electronically triggered device designed to detonate an explosive charge in a missile, etc, at a predetermined distance from the target
- proximity fuze — a design for detonating a charge, as in a projectile, within a predesignated radius of a target.
- raise the roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
- re-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
- recodification — the act, process, or result of arranging in a systematic form or code.
- reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
- reflectionless — unable to reflect, not possessing a reflection
- reformationist — someone who was part of the Reformation
- refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
- reinforcements — the act of reinforcing.
- relexification — to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
- resinification — to convert into a resin.
- restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
- reverification — the act of verifying.
- revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
- right-to-lifer — someone who supports the right to life of the unborn and opposes abortion, experiments on embryos, etc
- rite of spring — French Le Sacre du Printemps. a ballet suite (1913) for orchestra by Igor Stravinsky.