14-letter words containing i, n, f
- autoconfiscate — (software, jargon) A term coined by Noah Friedman meaning to set up or modify a source-code distribution so that it configures and builds using the GNU project's autoconf/automake/libtools suite.
- back formation — the invention of a new word on the assumption that a familiar word is derived from it. The verbs edit and burgle were so created from editor and burglar
- back-formation — the analogical creation of one word from another word that appears to be a derived or inflected form of the first by dropping the apparent affix or by modification.
- backflap hinge — Building Trades. flap (def 20a).
- backside-front — backend-to.
- bancroft prize — one of a group of annual awards for literary achievement in American history and biography: administered by Columbia University.
- baptismal font — a large bowl for baptismal water, usually mounted on a pedestal
- baranof island — an island off SE Alaska, in the western part of the Alexander Archipelago. Area: 4162 sq km (1607 sq miles)
- be gagging for — to be very eager to have or do something
- be of one mind — to have the same opinion or desire
- beautification — Making beautiful, beautifying, improving the appearance of something.
- beneficialness — the state of being beneficial
- benzosulfimide — saccharin.
- beside oneself — If you are beside yourself with anger or excitement, you are extremely angry or excited.
- betting office — a licensed bookmaker's premises not on a racecourse where bets can be placed on horses, teams, and other competitors
- bight of bonny — a wide bay at the E end of the Gulf of Guinea off the coasts of Nigeria and Cameroon
- bill of lading — (in foreign trade) a document containing full particulars of goods shipped or for shipment
- binary fission — asexual reproduction in unicellular organisms by division into two daughter cells
- binding rafter — a timber for supporting rafters between their extremities, as a purlin.
- bioinformatics — the branch of information science concerned with large databases of biochemical or pharmaceutical information
- biscuit-firing — the first firing given to pottery, before it is glazed
- blanket finish — a finish so close that a blanket would cover all the contestants involved
- blended family — a social unit consisting of two previously married parents and the children of their former marriages
- block faulting — the process by which tensional forces in the earth's crust cause large bodies of rock to founder.
- booking office — A booking office is a room where tickets are sold and booked, especially in a theatre or station.
- bottom fishing — investing in low-priced shares that show prospects of recovery or in shares that are low-priced because of a general market decline in the hope of making a profit
- bottom-feeding — the activities of a bottom feeder.
- branch officer — (in the British navy since 1949) any officer who holds warrant
- brandy snifter — snifter (def 1).
- brass farthing — something of little or no value
- breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
- bridge fluting — (on the stem of a drinking glass) flutes or facets continuing onto the underside of the bowl.
- briefing paper — a document providing relevant facts and information
- buffalo indian — a member of any of the American Indian tribes, as those of the Algonquian, Athabascan, Caddoan, Kiowa, Siouan, or Uto-Aztecan linguistic families, that formerly inhabited the Great Plains. All were more or less nomadic, following the buffalo, and were often in touch with one another so that the development among them of common culture traits is noticeable.
- bullion fringe — a thick gold or silver wire or fringed cord used as a trimming, as on military uniforms
- burnt offering — a sacrificial offering burnt, usually on an altar, to honour, propitiate, or supplicate a deity
- butterfingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
- cache conflict — (storage) A sequence of accesses to memory repeatedly overwriting the same cache entry. This can happen if two blocks of data, which are mapped to the same set of cache locations, are needed simultaneously. For example, in the case of a direct mapped cache, if arrays A, B, and C map to the same range of cache locations, thrashing will occur when the following loop is executed: See also ping-pong.
- cafeteria plan — a fringe-benefit plan under which employees may choose from among various benefits those that best fit their needs, up to a specified dollar value.
- calorification — the production of heat
- can ill afford — If you say that someone can ill afford to do something, or can ill afford something, you mean that they must prevent it from happening because it would be harmful or embarrassing to them.
- canicola fever — an acute febrile disease of humans and dogs, characterized by inflammation of the stomach and intestines and by jaundice: caused by a spirochete, Leptospira canicola.
- capital inflow — In economics, capital inflow is the amount of capital coming into a country, for example in the form of foreign investment.
- carrion feeder — any animal that feeds on dead and rotting flesh
- carrion flower — a liliaceous climbing plant, Smilax herbacea of E North America, whose small green flowers smell like decaying flesh
- center fielder — the player whose position is center field.
- central office — (communications) The place where telephone companies terminate customer lines and locate switching equipment to interconnect those lines with other networks.
- centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
- centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
- certifications — Plural form of certification.