14-letter words containing f, o, s, t, r
- 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.
- repeat oneself — to say or do the same thing more than once, esp so as to be tedious
- resinification — to convert into a resin.
- rest of esther — a book of the Old Testament Apocrypha consisting of verses in the Septuagint text of the book of Esther that are not in the Hebrew text
- restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
- rip-off artist — a person who steals, cheats or swindles
- rite of spring — French Le Sacre du Printemps. a ballet suite (1913) for orchestra by Igor Stravinsky.
- robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
- run out of gas — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- 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.
- 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.
- self-adornment — something that adds attractiveness; ornament; accessory: the adornments and furnishings of a room.
- self-assertion — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
- self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- self-forgetful — forgetful or not thinking of one's own advantage, interest, etc.
- self-formation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
- self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
- self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
- self-operating — automatic.
- self-operative — automatic.
- self-promotion — advancement in rank or position.
- self-restoring — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
- self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
- seventy-fourth — next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
- shortened form — an abbreviated form of a multisyllable word; clipped form.
- shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
- skeleton draft — a basic or minimum draft or outline
- 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.
- soft margarine — a soft, spreadable margarine that is made with more liquid oils and less hydrogenated oils than hard, block margarine
- soft sculpture — sculpture principally in vinyl, canvas, or other flexible material reproducing objects of characteristically rigid construction, as an electric fan, a typewriter, a set of drums, or a bathtub, in forms having a malleable texture and a liquescent, somewhat deflated appearance.
- soft tree fern — an Australian tree fern, Dicksonia antarctica, with a thick trunk and large spreading green fronds
- software house — a commercial organization that specializes in the production of computer software packages
- somar software — (company) The distributors of Somar DumpAcl and other utilities for Windows NT. Address: Washington, DC, USA.
- sorting office — postal
- southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
- space platform — space station.
- sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
- staff corporal — a noncommissioned rank in the British Army above that of staff sergeant and below that of warrant officer
- staffing ratio — the ratio of the staff or workforce of a place to another group, for example to staff in another department, the ratio of patients to nurses in a hospital, or the ratio of pupils to teachers in a school
- stagflationary — of, caused by, or relating to, stagflation
- state of grace — grace (def 8d).