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14-letter words containing g, f, c, i

  • insignificancy — insignificance.
  • kilogram-force — a meter-kilogram-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity, when acting on a mass of one kilogram. Abbreviation: kgf.
  • left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
  • life-enhancing — If you describe something as life-enhancing, you mean that it makes you feel happier and more content.
  • light aircraft — A light aircraft is a small aeroplane that is designed to carry a small number of passengers or a small amount of goods.
  • lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
  • magnetic field — a region of space near a magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle in which a magnetic force acts on any other magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle.
  • magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
  • magnifications — Plural form of magnification.
  • malfunctioning — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
  • microfortnight — One millionth of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measurement; 1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel; the mass unit of the system is taken to be a firkin of water). The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realises that the current value is bogus. This time is specified in microfortnights! Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnight have also been reported.
  • mischief night — Halloween or, in some areas, the night before Halloween, as an occasion for pranks and minor vandalism by young people.
  • misclassifying — Present participle of misclassify.
  • morning coffee — a mid-morning snack with a cup of coffee drunk during a short break at work, or in your house, when you might invite someone in
  • mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • non-conforming — to act in accordance or harmony; comply (usually followed by to): to conform to rules.
  • nonconflicting — Not conflicting; compatible.
  • nonfunctioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • nonsignificant — (sciences) Lacking statistical significance.
  • offering price — the price quoted when something is offered for sale, especially the price per share, as of an investment security or mutual fund being sold to the public.
  • office manager — employee in charge of office personnel
  • openoffice.org — (project)   (OOo) The group that produces a free (GPL) cross-platform office suite that provides much of the same functionality as Microsoft Office including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and graphics. Each program can read and write both its own and Microsoft formats.
  • organ of corti — Anatomy, Zoology. a structure in the cochlea of a mammal, consisting of hair cells that serve as receptors for auditory stimuli.
  • peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
  • piece of eight — peso (def 4).
  • pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons
  • reefing jacket — a man's short double-breasted jacket of sturdy wool
  • reflexological — of or relating to reflexology
  • regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
  • rigidification — the state or process of stiffening or rigidifying
  • sanguification — hematopoiesis.
  • saxifragaceous — belonging to the plant family Saxifragaceae.
  • schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • self-actuating — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
  • self-confining — to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict: She confined her remarks to errors in the report. Confine your efforts to finishing the book.
  • self-consoling — to alleviate or lessen the grief, sorrow, or disappointment of; give solace or comfort: Only his children could console him when his wife died.
  • self-deceiving — subject to self-deception; tending to deceive or fool oneself: a self-deceiving person.
  • self-directing — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
  • self-enforcing — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
  • self-enriching — to supply with riches, wealth, abundant or valuable possessions, etc.: Commerce enriches a nation.
  • self-executing — going into effect immediately without the need of supplementary legislation: a self-executing treaty.
  • self-financing — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
  • self-mockingly — in a self-mocking manner
  • self-reckoning — count; computation; calculation.
  • self-recording — recording automatically, as an instrument.
  • self-searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
  • sorting office — postal
  • sticky fingers — an inclination or tendency to steal or pilfer
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • straight-faced — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
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