14-letter words containing f, r, e, t
- forward market — future commodities trading
- foster brother — a boy brought up with another child of different parents.
- founder effect — the accumulation of random genetic changes in an isolated population as a result of its proliferation from only a few parent colonizers.
- founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
- four-four time — a form of simple quadruple time in which there are four crotchets to the bar, indicated by the time signature 44
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
- fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
- fragmentedness — The quality of being fragmented.
- france ancient — an escutcheon blazoned as follows: Azure, semé-de-lys or.
- franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
- fraternal twin — one of a pair of twins, not necessarily resembling each other, or of the same sex, that develop from two separately fertilized ova.
- fraternisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of fraternization.
- fraternity pin — a pin worn on clothing that indicates membership in a fraternity
- fraternization — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
- fraudulentness — (rare) fraudulence.
- free variation — a relation between the members of a pair of phones, phonemes, morphs, or other linguistic entities such that either of the two may occur in the same position with no change in the meaning of the utterance: in the first syllable of “economics,” “e” and “ē” are in free variation.
- free vibration — the vibration of a structure that occurs at its natural frequency, as opposed to a forced vibration
- free-associate — to engage in free association.
- free-marketeer — A free-marketeer is someone, especially a politician, who thinks market forces should control the economy.
- freeze (on) to — to cling to; hold fast to
- freezer centre — a store that specializes in selling freezers
- freezing point — the temperature at which a liquid freezes: The freezing point of water is 32°F, 0°C.
- frege, gottlob — Gottlob Frege
- freight engine — a locomotive for pulling freight trains, designed for high drawbar pull rather than high speed.
- french cricket — a child's game resembling cricket, in which the batsman's legs are used as the wicket
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
- french tickler — a condom designed with knobs, projections, etc.
- frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
- frenkel defect — a crystal defect in which a lattice ion has moved to an interstitial position leaving a vacant lattice site
- frequent flier — an airline passenger registered with a program that provides bonuses, as upgrades or free flights, based especially on distance traveled.
- frequent flyer — a person who regularly makes air journeys
- frequent-flier — designating or related to a program in which an airline awards points to customers for miles flown or for other approved expenditures and then redeems them for free air travel when sufficient points have been accumulated
- fresh out (of) — having just sold or used up the last one or part (of)
- freshness date — the last date, usually specified on the label or packaging, that a food, as bread, is considered fresh, although it may be sold, ordinarily at reduced prices, or eaten after that date.
- freshwater eel — any of a family (Anguillidae) of eels that live in streams, lakes, etc. and migrate to the sea to spawn
- friction drive — a power transmission system utilizing a set of friction gears so arranged that varying their positions relative to one another gives a wide range of speed ratios.
- 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
- fringe benefit — any of various benefits, as free life or health insurance, paid holidays, a pension, etc., received by an employee in addition to regular pay.
- fringe meeting — a meeting that takes place during a convention and is attended only by people whose views are not central to the majority
- fringe theatre — theatrical performance that is unconventional or otherwise distinct from the mainstream
- from the first — From the first means ever since something started.
- from the floor — during the time of a game when active defense is permitted
- front of house — restaurant
- front side bus — (hardware) (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
- 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.