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

  • front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
  • front-end load — the sales commission and other fees taken out of the first year's payment under a contractual plan for purchasing shares of a mutual fund (front-end load fund) over a period of years.
  • frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
  • frontierswomen — Plural form of frontierswoman.
  • frontoparietal — of or relating to the frontal and parietal bones of the cranium.
  • frontotemporal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the frontal and temporal bones or lobes.
  • frozen account — A frozen account is a bank account that cannot have money withdrawn from it, because of a court order.
  • 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.
  • frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
  • fuel injection — the spraying of liquid fuel into the cylinders or combustion chambers of an engine.
  • function creep — the gradual widening of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended, esp when this leads to potential invasion of privacy
  • function space — a linear space, the elements of which are functions.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • gallery forest — a narrow strip of woods or forest along the banks of a watercourse flowing through open country.
  • gelatification — the process of gelatinizing.
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • gentrification — the buying and renovation of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
  • 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.
  • getting on for — Getting on for means the same as nearly.
  • give effect to — to put into practice; make operative
  • give it up for — If an audience is asked to give it up for a performer, they are being asked to applaud.
  • good afternoon — greeting
  • graeffe method — a method, involving the squaring of roots, for approximating the solutions to algebraic equations.
  • group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations
  • group of three — Japan, US, and Germany (formerly West Germany), regarded as the largest industrialized nations
  • guarantee form — a document that spells out the terms of a legally binding guarantee
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • half-completed — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • half-forgotten — a past participle of forget.
  • 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.
  • halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
  • 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.
  • have it in for — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
  • have the floor — have a turn to speak publicly
  • health officer — an official who administers laws pertaining to health, especially sanitation.
  • 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.
  • height of land — a watershed
  • hemoflagellate — a flagellate protozoan, especially of the genera Trypanosoma and Leishmania, that is parasitic in the blood.
  • heteroflexible — (of a person) predominantly heterosexual but not exclusively so
  • heterospecific — belonging to a different species or group
  • hold the field — to maintain one's position in the face of opposition
  • horn of plenty — cornucopia.
  • house of study — Beth Midrash.
  • hyperinflation — extreme or excessive inflation.
  • identification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
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