14-letter words containing f, r, i, t, e
- referentiality — the quality or state of being referential or containing references
- reflectionless — unable to reflect, not possessing a reflection
- reflectiveness — that reflects; reflecting.
- reformationist — someone who was part of the Reformation
- refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- refund annuity — an annuity providing for a lump-sum payment or installment payments to the beneficiary for the amount remaining of the purchase price at the death of the annuitant.
- regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
- reinforcements — the act of reinforcing.
- relexification — to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
- relief pitcher — a pitcher brought into a game to replace another pitcher, often in a critical situation.
- resinification — to convert into a resin.
- restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
- revenue tariff — a tariff or duty imposed on imports primarily to produce public revenue.
- reverification — the act of verifying.
- revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
- right-to-lifer — someone who supports the right to life of the unborn and opposes abortion, experiments on embryos, etc
- rite of spring — French Le Sacre du Printemps. a ballet suite (1913) for orchestra by Igor Stravinsky.
- rooting reflex — a reflex in infants in which the head is turned towards any stimulus; used to find the nipple
- route flapping — flapping router
- sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
- safety circuit — a type of electronic circuit that prevents malfunction by stopping the flow of current or sounding an alert.
- safety curtain — a sheet of asbestos or other fireproof material that can be lowered just inside the proscenium arch in case of fire, sealing off the backstage area from the auditorium.
- safety officer — The safety officer in a company or an organization is the person who is responsible for the safety of the people who work or visit there.
- santa fe trail — an important trade route going between Independence, Missouri, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, used from about 1821 to 1880.
- schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- scsi interface — SCSI adaptor
- self assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
- self-assertion — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
- self-assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
- self-criticism — the act or fact of being self-critical.
- self-directing — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
- self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- self-directive — serving to direct; directing: a directive board.
- self-formation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
- self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
- self-interview — a formal meeting in which one or more persons question, consult, or evaluate another person: a job interview.
- self-operating — automatic.
- self-operative — automatic.
- self-promotion — advancement in rank or position.
- self-replicate — (of a computer virus, etc) to reproduce itself
- self-restoring — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
- self-restraint — restraint imposed on one by oneself; self-control.
- self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
- sensitive fern — a common, widely distributed fern, Onoclea sensibilis, having large, triangular leaves and beadlike spikes that contain the spores.
- shark-infested — (of a body of water) known to contain large numbers of sharks, and therefore considered to be dangerous
- shift register — (in digital circuits) a register in which all bits can be shifted one or more positions to the left or to the right
- shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.