14-letter words containing f, o, s, t
- staff discount — a discount off goods sold by a particular shop, given to members of staff of that shop
- 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
- stand-off half — a player who acts as a link between his scrum half and three-quarter backs
- state function — a thermodynamic quantity that has definite values for given states of a system, such as entropy, enthalpy, free energy, etc
- state of grace — grace (def 8d).
- state of siege — A state of siege is a situation in which a government or other authority puts restrictions on the movement of people into or out of a country, town, or building.
- steer clear of — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
- stephen foster — Stephen (Collins) 1826–64, U.S. songwriter.
- stereospecific — (of a reaction) producing a simple stereoisomer.
- stigmatiferous — (of a plant) having a stigma
- stock transfer — Stock transfer is the act of moving goods from one part of the distribution chain to another.
- stockade fence — a fence of closely fitted vertical boards with pointed tops.
- stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
- stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
- stop-and-frisk — a policy that permits a police officer to momentarily detain and pat down or search a person suspected of criminal activity, especially when suspected of concealing a weapon.
- store of value — the function of money that enables goods and services to be paid for a considerable time after they have been acquired
- stratification — the act or an instance of stratifying.
- strong forward — power forward
- subinfeudation — the granting of a portion of an estate by a feudal tenant to a subtenant, held from the tenant on terms similar to those of the grant to the tenant.
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- sulfantimonide — any compound containing an antimonide and a sulfide.
- superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
- superinfection — marked proliferation of a parasitic microorganism during antimicrobial treatment for another infection.
- superinflation — hyperinflation.
- surface-to-air — (of a missile, message, etc.) capable of traveling from the surface of the earth to a target in the atmosphere.
- susceptible of — that gives a chance for; admitting; allowing
- sweet woodruff — any of several plants belonging to the genus Asperula or Galium, of the madder family, as G. odoratum (sweet woodruff) a fragrant plant with small white flowers.
- syntactic foam — any of several buoyant materials made up of tiny hollow spheres embedded in a surrounding plastic
- take years off — to make (someone) feel or look much younger
- tasmanian wolf — thylacine.
- terms of trade — the ratio of export prices to import prices. It measures a nation's trading position, which improves when export prices rise faster or fall slower than import prices
- the chosen few — a small group who are treated better than other people
- the five towns — the name given in his fiction by Arnold Bennett to the Potteries towns (actually six in number) of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall, now part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent
- the footlights — the theater, or acting as a profession
- the oslo fjord — a bay in the southeast of Norway (an inlet of the Skagerrak)
- the reverse of — emphatically not; not at all
- thetford mines — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: asbestos mining.
- thomas raffles — Sir Thomas Stamford, 1781–1826, English colonial administrator in the East Indies.
- thomson effect — the tendency of unevenly heated segments of a strip of a conductor to increase or decrease in temperature differences when an electric current is passed through the strip.
- thoughtfulness — showing consideration for others; considerate.
- to follow suit — If people follow suit, they do the same thing that someone else has just done.
- to make a fuss — If you make a fuss or kick up a fuss about something, you become angry or excited about it and complain.
- to mend fences — If one country tries to mend fences with another, it tries to end a disagreement or quarrel with the other country. You can also say that two countries mend fences.
- tourist office — information centre for sightseers
- transfer orbit — the flight path of a space vehicle moving from a nearly circular orbit to one with different parameters.
- transformation — the act or process of transforming.
- transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transformistic — of or relating to transformism or transformists
- transfusionist — a medical professional who transfuses blood into someone