14-letter words containing f, r, e, c, l
- fort mcclellan — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Alabama, NE of Anniston.
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
- framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
- free and clear — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- french cruller — cruller (def 2).
- french tickler — a condom designed with knobs, projections, etc.
- french-cruller — a rich, light cake cut from a rolled dough and deep-fried, usually having a twisted oblong shape and sometimes topped with sugar or icing.
- frenkel defect — a crystal defect in which a lattice ion has moved to an interstitial position leaving a vacant lattice site
- friction layer — the atmospheric layer extending up to about 600 m, in which the aerodynamic effects of surface friction are appreciable
- frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
- friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
- frolicsomeness — The quality of being frolicsome; playfulness.
- health officer — an official who administers laws pertaining to health, especially sanitation.
- in full career — at full speed
- inertial force — an imaginary force which an accelerated observer postulates so that he can use the equations appropriate to an inertial observer
- inference rule — (logic) A procedure which combines known facts to produce ("infer") new facts. For example, given that 1. Socrates is a man and that 2. all men are motal, we can infer that Socrates is mortal. This uses the rule known as "modus ponens" which can be written in Boolean algebra as (A & A => B) => B (if proposition A is true, and A implies B, then B is true). Or given that, 1. Either Denis is programming or Denis is sad and 2. Denis is not sad, we can infer that Denis is programming. This rule can be written ((A OR B) & not B) => A (If either A is true or B is true (or both), and B is false, then A must be true). Compare syllogism.
- inflorescences — Plural form of inflorescence.
- interinfluence — to influence reciprocally or mutually
- isle of france — Île-de-France
- kentucky rifle — a long-barreled muzzleloading flintlock rifle developed near Lancaster, Pa., in the early 18th century and widely used on the frontier.
- 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.
- lawrence frame — a gilded frame for a circular or oval painting, having a rectangular exterior form.
- leafcutter ant — any of various South American ants of the genus Atta that cut pieces of leaves and use them as fertilizer for the fungus on which they feed
- leafcutter bee — any of various solitary bees of the genus Megachile that nest in soil or rotten wood, constructing the cells in which they lay their eggs from pieces of leaf
- left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
- 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.
- letter-perfect — knowing one's part, lesson, or the like, perfectly.
- life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
- life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.
- line of credit — credit line (def 2).
- lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
- malefactresses — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
- manufacturable — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
- merchant fleet — the total number of civilian ships of a country carrying either passengers or cargo (goods)
- microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
- midlife crisis — a period of psychological stress occurring in middle age, thought to be triggered by a physical, occupational, or domestic event, as menopause, diminution of physical prowess, job loss, or departure of children from the home.
- molecular film — a film or layer one molecule thick.
- mother of coal — mineral charcoal.
- multifrequency — Of or pertaining to multiple frequencies.
- non-reflection — the act of reflecting, as in casting back a light or heat, mirroring, or giving back or showing an image; the state of being reflected in this way.
- non-reflective — not capable of or not designed to reflect light
- nonfluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
- norfolk jacket — a loosely belted single-breasted jacket, with box pleats in front and back.
- nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
- nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).