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14-letter words containing f, r, o

  • every so often — now and again
  • exchange force — a force between two elementary particles resulting from the exchange of a virtual particle
  • extraforaneous — (nonce, archaic) outdoor.
  • f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
  • facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
  • factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
  • factory worker — manufacturing labourer
  • faeroe islands — group of Danish islands in the N Atlantic, between Iceland & the Shetland Islands: 540 sq mi (1,399 sq km); pop. 44,000
  • fair territory — the area beginning with and including home plate and extending between and including foul lines into which a batter must bat the ball as a prerequisite for a safe hit.
  • fairy primrose — a tender primrose, Primula malacoides, of China, having hairy leaves and small, pink or lilac-colored flowers.
  • fall army worm — the caterpillar of a widely distributed noctuid moth, Spodoptera frugiperda, which travels in vast hordes and is a serious pest of cereal crops in tropical regions of the western hemisphere
  • false relation — a harmonic clash that occurs when a note in one part sounds simultaneously with or immediately before or after its chromatically altered (sharpened or flattened) equivalent appearing in another part
  • false scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
  • family romance — a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
  • family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
  • fanum fortunae — ancient name of Fano.
  • farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
  • farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
  • fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
  • fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers
  • fashionmongers — Plural form of fashionmonger.
  • fast of esther — a Jewish fast day observed on the 13th day of the month of Adar in memory of Esther's fast of three days before petitioning her husband, King Ahasuerus of Persia, to spare the Jews from destruction by Haman.
  • fault tolerant — fault tolerance
  • fault-tolerant — designed to return to a safe condition in the event of a failure or malfunction
  • favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
  • fd and c color — any of the synthetic pigments and dyes that are approved by the FDA for use in foods, drugs, and cosmetics.
  • feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
  • feature editor — a newspaper or magazine journalist who commissions and edits feature articles
  • federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
  • federalization — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
  • feeding ground — The feeding ground of a group of animals or birds, is the place where they find food and eat.
  • fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
  • femoral artery — the main artery of the thigh, supplying blood to the leg.
  • femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
  • ferroelectrics — Plural form of ferroelectric.
  • ferromagnesian — (of minerals and rocks) containing iron and magnesium.
  • ferromagnetism — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
  • ferromanganese — a ferroalloy containing up to 90 percent manganese.
  • ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
  • ferry crossing — the act or instance of travelling across the sea by ferry
  • ferry operator — a company that operates a ferry or ferries
  • fertile period — the time during a woman's menstrual cycle at which she is most likely to become pregnant, or the equivalent time for an animal
  • fertilizations — Plural form of fertilization.
  • fibrinopeptide — (protein) A polypeptide fragment, cleaved from fibrinogen by thrombin, that combines to form fibrin during blood-clotting.
  • fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
  • fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
  • fidei defensor — Defender of the Faith: one of the titles of English sovereigns.
  • fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
  • field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
  • field of force — the region of space surrounding a body, such as a charged particle or a magnet, within which it can exert a force on another similar body not in contact with it
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