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14-letter words containing f, o, s, t

  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • 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
  • fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
  • factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
  • false position — a situation in which a person is forced to act or seems to be acting against his principles or interests
  • false positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
  • false relation — a harmonic clash that occurs when a note in one part sounds simultaneously with or immediately before or after its chromatically altered (sharpened or flattened) equivalent appearing in another part
  • false-positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
  • family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
  • fantastication — the act of making fantastic
  • farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
  • fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
  • fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
  • fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
  • fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • fast of esther — a Jewish fast day observed on the 13th day of the month of Adar in memory of Esther's fast of three days before petitioning her husband, King Ahasuerus of Persia, to spare the Jews from destruction by Haman.
  • fastidiousness — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
  • fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
  • feast of fools — (especially in France) a mock-religious celebration in the Middle Ages, held on or about January 1.
  • federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
  • felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
  • fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
  • fellow student — sb studying at same institution
  • femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
  • ferroelectrics — Plural form of ferroelectric.
  • ferromagnetism — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
  • fertilizations — Plural form of fertilization.
  • festive season — People sometimes refer to the Christmas period as the festive season.
  • fetal position — a bodily posture resembling that of the fetus in the uterus, in which the body is curled with head and limbs drawn in, sometimes assumed in states of fear or emotional withdrawal.
  • fictitiousness — The state of being fictitious.
  • field hospital — an organization of medical personnel with medical equipment for establishing a temporary hospital at isolated posts or in the field to support ground troops in combat.
  • fifth position — a position similar to the first position, but with one foot in front, the heel and toe of the front foot adjacent to the toe and heel of the back foot.
  • fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • file extension — filename extension
  • file separator — (character)   (FS) ASCII character 28.
  • filiopietistic — of or relating to reverence of forebears or tradition, especially if carried to excess.
  • final solution — the Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich.
  • fineness ratio — Aeronautics. the ratio of the length of a streamlined body, as a rocket or airplane hull, to its maximum diameter.
  • finsteraarhorn — a mountain in S central Switzerland: highest peak of the Bernese Alps, 14,026 feet (4275 meters).
  • first division — the half of a league comprising the teams having the best records at a particular time (opposed to second division).
  • first mortgage — a mortgage having priority over other mortgages on property.
  • first offender — a person convicted of an offense of law for the first time.
  • first position — a position of the feet in which the heels are back to back and the toes point out to the sides.
  • first-aid post — the place at an event where people can go for medical treatment if they become ill or are injured
  • fissionability — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
  • 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
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