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14-letter words containing f, r, e, s, l

  • fraudulentness — (rare) fraudulence.
  • free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
  • freshwater eel — any of a family (Anguillidae) of eels that live in streams, lakes, etc. and migrate to the sea to spawn
  • frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
  • friendlessness — The state or condition of being friendless; lack of friends.
  • frolicsomeness — The quality of being frolicsome; playfulness.
  • full professor — professor (def 1).
  • fuller's earth — an absorbent clay, used especially for removing grease from fabrics, in fulling cloth, as a filter, and as a dusting powder.
  • futurelessness — the state or quality of being futureless
  • gallery forest — a narrow strip of woods or forest along the banks of a watercourse flowing through open country.
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • golfer's elbow — a painful inflammation of the muscles on the inside of the forearm caused by exertion in playing golf
  • half seas over — of, relating to, or adapted for use at sea.
  • half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
  • half-note rest — a pause of half a semibreve
  • half-seas over — drunk; intoxicated; inebriated.
  • half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
  • half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
  • hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
  • house of lords — the nonelective, upper house of the British Parliament, comprising the lords spiritual and lords temporal.
  • ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
  • inflammatories — Plural form of inflammatory.
  • inflorescences — Plural form of inflorescence.
  • isle of france — Île-de-France
  • jeffersonville — a city in S Indiana, on the Ohio River.
  • kaieteur falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
  • kaieteur-falls — a river in central Guyana: (Kaieteur Falls) one of highest waterfalls in the world at 741 feet (226 meters). 100 miles (161 km) long.
  • 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.
  • life preserver — a buoyant jacket, belt, or other like device for keeping a person afloat.
  • life president — the president of a club, society, etc, who will remain president until death
  • lifestyle guru — a person hired to give someone advice on various aspects of his or her life, work, and relationships
  • long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • 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.
  • malefactresses — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
  • man of letters — highly educated man
  • massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
  • 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.
  • new federalism — a plan, announced in 1969, to turn over the control of some federal programs to state and local governments and institute block grants, revenue sharing, etc.
  • new forest fly — a blood-sucking fly, Hippobosca equinus, that attacks horses and cattle
  • nonfluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
  • nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
  • oversimplified — simplified to the point of distortion or error
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • oxford english — that form of the received pronunciation of English supposed to be typical of Oxford University and regarded by many as affected or pretentious
  • paper-shuffler — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • parsley family — the plant family Umbelliferae (or Apiaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate, usually compound leaves, hollow stems, numerous small flowers borne in umbels, and dry, seedlike, often aromatic fruit, and including anise, caraway, carrot, celery, dill, parsley, parsnip, and Queen Anne's lace, as well as poisonous plants such as cowbane and water hemlock.
  • patresfamilias — a plural of paterfamilias.
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