14-letter words containing f, o, r, s
- coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
- coff's harbour — a seaport in E Australia.
- coffee grounds — the used ground beans that remain in a pot or coffee-maker
- coffee service — a set of china consisting of coffee cups and saucers, a pot, milk jug, and sugar bowl
- come off worst — to enjoy the least benefit from an issue or be defeated in it
- compass rafter — a rafter cut to a curve on one or both edges.
- confederations — Plural form of confederation.
- configurations — Plural form of configuration.
- conflagrations — Plural form of conflagration.
- confrontations — Plural form of confrontation.
- coniferophytes — Plural form of coniferophyte.
- copper sulfate — a blue, crystalline substance, CuSO4·5H2O, that effloresces and turns white when heated; blue vitriol: used in making pigments, germicides, batteries, etc.
- copperfastened — Simple past tense and past participle of copperfasten.
- coriolis force — a fictitious force used to explain a deflection in the path of a body moving in latitude relative to the earth when observed from the earth. The deflection (Coriolis effect) is due to the earth's rotation and is to the east when the motion is towards a pole
- corolliflorous — corollifloral
- counterfeiters — Plural form of counterfeiter.
- crash for cash — denoting a type of insurance fraud in which people bring about road accidents to ensure that a substantial claim is made
- crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
- cross software — Software developed on one kind of computer for use on another (usually because the other computer does not have itself adequate facilities for software development).
- cross-platform — (software, hardware) A term that describes a language, software application or hardware device that works on more than one system platform (e.g. Unix, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh). E.g. Netscape Navigator, Java.
- crossreference — Alternative form of cross-reference.
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- defence forces — the armed services of a country
- defenestration — the act of throwing someone out of a window
- defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
- diffeomorphism — a differentiable homeomorphism.
- diffuse-porous — having annual rings in which the size of pores is approximately the same in wood formed in spring and summer.
- disaffirmation — The act of denial; a declaration that something is not true.
- disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
- disinformation — false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
- distrustful of — suspicious of; having no confidence in
- do wonders for — to make a remarkable improvement in
- do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
- doctor faustus — (The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus) a play (c1588) by Christopher Marlowe, based on the medieval legend of Faust.
- dry rot fungus — a fungus, Merulius lacrymans, that causes a common type of dry rot.
- duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
- earl of surrey — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
- effortlessness — The state of being effortless; facility.
- electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
- elevator shaft — passage for a lift
- esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
- every so often — now and again
- extraforaneous — (nonce, archaic) outdoor.
- f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
- facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous