14-letter words containing f, o, s
- esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
- every so often — now and again
- excuse oneself — to ask that one's fault be overlooked; apologize
- expose oneself — to display one's sexual organs in public
- 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.
- facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
- factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
- faeroe islands — group of Danish islands in the N Atlantic, between Iceland & the Shetland Islands: 540 sq mi (1,399 sq km); pop. 44,000
- fairy primrose — a tender primrose, Primula malacoides, of China, having hairy leaves and small, pink or lilac-colored flowers.
- fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
- 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 scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
- 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
- farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
- farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
- fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
- fashion design — the activity of designing fashionable clothes
- fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
- fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers
- 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.
- fashionmongers — Plural form of fashionmonger.
- fashionmonging — the act of analysing, following or advising others on fashion
- 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.
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- 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.
- feel one's way — to move or advance cautiously, by or as if by groping
- 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
- fellowshipping — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
- femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
- fencing school — an academy or school where fencing was taught by fencing masters
- ferroelectrics — Plural form of ferroelectric.
- ferromagnesian — (of minerals and rocks) containing iron and magnesium.
- 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.
- ferromanganese — a ferroalloy containing up to 90 percent manganese.
- ferry crossing — the act or instance of travelling across the sea by ferry
- 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.