14-letter words containing f, r, i, c, s
- fire insurance — insurance covering any loss or damage caused by fire.
- fireside chats — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- first classman — a fourth-year student at a U.S. military academy.
- first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
- fitness center — A fitness center in a hotel is a large room, usually containing special equipment, where people go to do physical exercise and get fit.
- fitness centre — a place which has gym equipment
- flemish scroll — a scroll, as on a chair leg, having the form of two intersecting and oppositely curved C-scrolls.
- floor exercise — a competition in which each entrant performs a routine of acrobatic tumbling feats and balletic movements without any apparatus on a specifically designated floor space, usually 12 meters (39 feet) square and having a matlike covering.
- floorcoverings — Plural form of floorcovering.
- floriculturist — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
- flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
- forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
- forest service — a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, created in 1905, that protects and develops the national forests and grasslands.
- form criticism — a method of textual analysis, applied especially to the Bible, in which the origin and history of certain passages are traced by isolating their literary forms, as miracle story, saying, or apothegm, on the assumption that they were fixed by oral tradition prior to compilation in written form.
- fortifications — Plural form of fortification.
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
- francis xavier — Saint Francis (Francisco Javier"the Apostle of the Indies") 1506–52, Spanish Jesuit missionary, especially in India and Japan.
- francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
- fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.
- free-associate — to engage in free association.
- french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
- fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
- frolicsomeness — The quality of being frolicsome; playfulness.
- fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
- futuristically — of or relating to the future: a futuristic view of the world.
- gratifications — Plural form of gratification.
- grief-stricken — overwhelmed by grief; deeply afflicted or sorrowful.
- handicraftsman — a person skilled in a handicraft; craftsman.
- heterospecific — belonging to a different species or group
- indifferences' — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
- inflorescences — Plural form of inflorescence.
- infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
- isle of france — Île-de-France
- jefferson city — a city in and the capital of Missouri, in the central part, on the Missouri River.
- karstification — the process of turning into karst
- 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.
- massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
- microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
- microsoft mail — (messaging, tool) (MS Mail) A Microsoft Windows electronic mail program.
- microsoft word — (text, tool, product) A popular word processor, part of the Microsoft Office suite. The original Word (versions 1.0 to 4.?/5.0?) was originally text-based (non-GUI) and ran under MS-DOS. Then Microsoft released Word for Windows 1.0 and 2.0. Later they produced new versions for each OS, both numbered 6.0.
- 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.
- mischief-maker — a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.
- misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- mortifications — Plural form of mortification.
- non-conformist — a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
- nonconformists — a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
- nonformalistic — Not formalistic.