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

  • frontierswomen — Plural form of frontierswoman.
  • frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
  • function shift — a change in the syntactic function of a word, as when the noun mushroom is used as an intransitive verb
  • function space — a linear space, the elements of which are functions.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • futtock shroud — any of several metal rods secured at their lower ends to a futtock band and at their upper ends to a futtock plate, connecting the lower mast to the topmast rigging.
  • gallery forest — a narrow strip of woods or forest along the banks of a watercourse flowing through open country.
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
  • get rid of sth — When you get rid of something that you do not want or do not like, you take action so that you no longer have it or suffer from it.
  • gibbs function — the thermodynamic function of a system that is equal to its enthalpy minus the product of its absolute temperture and entropy: a decrease in the function is equal to the maximum amount of work available exclusive of that due to pressure times volume change during a reversible, isothermal, isobaric process.
  • gratifications — Plural form of gratification.
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • half-note rest — a pause of half a semibreve
  • half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
  • hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • hats off to sb — If you say 'Hats off to someone', you are expressing admiration for them.
  • heart of stone — lack of compassion
  • heat of fusion — the heat absorbed by a unit mass of a given solid at its melting point that completely converts the solid to a liquid at the same temperature: equal to the heat of solidification.
  • heterospecific — belonging to a different species or group
  • house of study — Beth Midrash.
  • ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
  • immersion foot — an abnormal condition of the foot caused by prolonged exposure to water, characterized by pathological changes in the skin, blood vessels, nerves, and muscles.
  • in case of sth — If you do something or have something in case of a particular thing, you do it or have it because that thing might happen or be true.
  • in lieu of sth — If you do, get, or give one thing in lieu of another, you do, get, or give it instead of the other thing, because the two things are considered to have the same value or importance.
  • in the forties — between 40 and 49 degrees in temperature
  • in/out of step — If people who are walking or dancing are in step, they are moving their feet forward at exactly the same time as each other. If they are out of step, their feet are moving forward at different times.
  • infectiousness — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
  • infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
  • inflammatories — Plural form of inflammatory.
  • inflectionless — Without inflection.
  • instead of sth — If you do one thing instead of another, you do the first thing and not the second thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour.
  • interdiffusion — mutual diffusion of fluids
  • isle of thanet — an island in SE England, in NE Kent, separated from the mainland by two branches of the River Stour: scene of many Norse invasions. Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
  • isthmus of kra — an isthmus of SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand: the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula. Width: about 56 km (35 miles)
  • it's not as if — You use 'It's not as if' to introduce a statement which, if it were true, might explain something puzzling, although in fact it is not true.
  • jefferson city — a city in and the capital of Missouri, in the central part, on the Missouri River.
  • john atanasoff — John Vincent Atanasoff
  • justifications — Plural form of justification.
  • karstification — the process of turning into karst
  • kettle of fish — an awkward, difficult, or bad situation; muddle; mess: He's managed to get himself into a fine kettle of fish!
  • king of beasts — the lion.
  • law of nations — international law.
  • leaf-nosed bat — any of various New and Old World bats, as of the families Phyllostomatidae, Rhinolophidae, and Hipposideridae, having a leaflike flap of skin at the tip of the nose.
  • lend itself to — to be adapted to, useful for, or open to
  • let oneself go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • lost and found — a room in a public place for items left behind and from which the owners may retrieve them.
  • lost for words — If someone is lost for words, they cannot think of anything to say, especially because they are very surprised by something.
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