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14-letter words containing f, o, s, c, a, r

  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • gratifications — Plural form of gratification.
  • house of cards — a structure or plan that is insubstantial and subject to imminent collapse, as a structure made by balancing playing cards against each other: The scheme is so overly complicated that it's likely to prove to be just another house of cards.
  • isle of france — Île-de-France
  • karstification — the process of turning into karst
  • microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
  • microsoft mail — (messaging, tool)   (MS Mail) A Microsoft Windows electronic mail program.
  • misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
  • mortifications — Plural form of mortification.
  • nonformalistic — Not formalistic.
  • nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
  • off the charts — a sheet exhibiting information in tabular form.
  • on the surface — to all appearances
  • pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
  • part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
  • platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • potts-fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
  • processor farm — (computer, parallel)   A parallel processor where tasks are distributed, or "farmed out", by one "farmer" processor to several "worker" processors, and results are sent back to the farmer. This arrangement is suitable for applications which can be partitioned into many separate, independent tasks, the canonical examples being ray tracing and the Mandelbrot set. In order to be efficient, the extra time spent on communications must be small compared to the time spent processing each task.
  • rafraichissoir — a table of the 18th century having a cooler for bottles and shelves for plates.
  • refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
  • regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
  • resinification — to convert into a resin.
  • robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
  • sacchariferous — containing or yielding sugar.
  • safety officer — The safety officer in a company or an organization is the person who is responsible for the safety of the people who work or visit there.
  • saint francois — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing generally W to the St. Lawrence River. 165 miles (266 km) long.
  • sales forecast — a prediction of future sales of a product, either judgmental or based on previous sales patterns
  • satisfactorily — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
  • saxifragaceous — belonging to the plant family Saxifragaceae.
  • schafer method — a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.
  • school of arts — a public building in a small town, originally one used for adult education
  • scotch furnace — ore hearth.
  • share of voice — the proportion of the total audience or readership commanded by a media group across its full range of publishing and broadcasting activities
  • social welfare — social services provided by a government for its citizens.
  • soft ice-cream — a softer and lighter-textured ice cream that contains more air than standard ice-cream. It was developed in Britain in the 20th century.
  • space platform — space station.
  • special forces — crack military team
  • staff corporal — a noncommissioned rank in the British Army above that of staff sergeant and below that of warrant officer
  • state of grace — grace (def 8d).
  • steer clear of — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
  • stock transfer — Stock transfer is the act of moving goods from one part of the distribution chain to another.
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • stratification — the act or an instance of stratifying.
  • sulfurous acid — a colorless liquid, H 2 SO 3 , having a suffocating odor, obtained by dissolving sulfur dioxide in water, known mainly by its salts, which are sulfites: used chiefly in organic synthesis and as a bleach.
  • surface worker — a person who works on or near the ground surface
  • surface-to-air — (of a missile, message, etc.) capable of traveling from the surface of the earth to a target in the atmosphere.
  • transformistic — of or relating to transformism or transformists
  • transport café — an inexpensive eating place on a main route, used mainly by long-distance lorry drivers
  • trustification — the practice or process of forming a monopolistic system or trusts: the trustification of the oil business.
  • unsatisfactory — not satisfactory; not satisfying or meeting one's demands; inadequate.
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