14-letter words containing f, o
- 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.
- jack-in-office — a self-important petty official
- jefferson city — a city in and the capital of Missouri, in the central part, on the Missouri River.
- jeffersonville — a city in S Indiana, on the Ohio River.
- john atanasoff — John Vincent Atanasoff
- john c fremont — John Charles, 1813–90, U.S. general and explorer: first Republican presidential candidate, 1856.
- john of leyden — Lucas van Leyden.
- junior officer — an officer who is not in overall command of a military unit
- justifications — Plural form of justification.
- karstification — the process of turning into karst
- kekulé formula — the structural formula of benzene represented as a hexagonal ring with alternate single and double bonds between the carbon atoms.
- kettle of fish — an awkward, difficult, or bad situation; muddle; mess: He's managed to get himself into a fine kettle of fish!
- kilogram-force — a meter-kilogram-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity, when acting on a mass of one kilogram. Abbreviation: kgf.
- king of beasts — the lion.
- labour of love — If you do something as a labour of love, you do it because you really want to and not because of any reward you might get for it, even though it involves hard work.
- lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
- land of beulah — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) the peaceful land in which the pilgrim awaits the call to the Celestial City.
- law of cosines — a law stating that the square of a side of a plane triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides minus twice the product of the other sides multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them.
- law of nations — international law.
- law of thought — any of the three basic laws of traditional logic: the law of contradiction, the law of excluded middle, and the law of identity.
- 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.
- leave for dead — to abandon
- left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
- left-of-center — holding liberal views in politics; left-wing.
- left-of-centre — Left-of-centre people or political parties support political ideas which are closer to socialism than to capitalism.
- 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.
- lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
- line of attack — a line of attack to a problem or situation is how you approach it
- line of battle — a line formed by troops or ships for delivering or receiving an attack.
- line of credit — credit line (def 2).
- line of flight — the flight path of something travelling from one place to another
- line of vision — a straight line that connects the fovea centralis of an eye with the point on which the eye focuses.
- lobelia family — the plant family Lobeliaceae (sometimes considered a subfamily, Lobelioideae, of the Campanulaceae, or bellflower family), typified by usually herbaceous plants having milky sap, simple alternate leaves, irregular two-lipped flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the cardinal flower, Indian tobacco, and lobelia.
- logania family — the plant family Loganiaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs of warm regions having usually opposite leaves, clusters of regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or fleshy fruit, and including the butterfly bush, Carolina jessamine, logania, and trees of the genus Strychnos, which are the source of curare, nux vomica, and strychnine.
- long-forgotten — belonging to the past; no longer remembered
- long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- loophole frame — a frame in the opening of a wall enclosing a window and some other opening.
- lord of appeal — one of several judges appointed to assist the House of Lords in hearing appeals
- 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.
- lyre-form sofa — a sofa of the early 19th century having a front rail curving upward and outward at either end to form arms and terminating in a downward scroll.
- magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
- magnifications — Plural form of magnification.
- maid of honour — A maid of honour is the chief bridesmaid at a wedding.
- main door flat — a flat in a tenement that can be accessed directly from outside rather than one which can only be accessed via a communal stairwell
- make a fortune — win, earn a vast amount of money
- make a fuss of — If you make a fuss of someone, you pay them a lot of attention and do things to make them happy or comfortable.