14-letter words containing i, r, s, f
- fishing permit — an official document which allows you to fish in a particular area of water
- 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
- flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flagelliferous — bearing a flagellum
- flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
- flemish scroll — a scroll, as on a chair leg, having the form of two intersecting and oppositely curved C-scrolls.
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- flinders grass — a drought-resistant pasture grass, Iseilema membranacea, native to inland regions of Australia and used as fodder.
- flinders range — a mountain range in S Australia. Highest peak, St. Mary Peak, 3900 feet (1190 meters).
- 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.
- floor polisher — an electrical appliance used for polishing floors
- floorcoverings — Plural form of floorcovering.
- floriculturist — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
- florida strait — a strait between Florida, Cuba, and the Bahamas, connecting the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic.
- florida-strait — a state in the SE United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. 58,560 sq. mi. (151,670 sq. km). Capital: Tallahassee. Abbreviation: FL (for use with zip code), Fla.
- florists' foam — a rigid, deformable, spongelike plastic used in floral arrangements to secure the stems of flowers.
- flowering moss — pyxie.
- fluid pressure — the pressure exerted by a fluid, directly proportional to the specific gravity at any point and to the height of the fluid above the point.
- flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
- folies bergere — a Parisian music hall founded in 1869 and noted for the lavish spectacle and mildly risqué content of its entertainments.
- for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
- foraminiferans — Plural form of foraminiferan.
- foraminiferous — Having small openings, or foramina.
- forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
- foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- foreshortening — Fine Arts. to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.
- forest service — a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, created in 1905, that protects and develops the national forests and grasslands.
- forisfamiliate — to free from paternal authority
- 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.
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- formosa strait — an arm of the Pacific Ocean between China and Taiwan, connecting the East and South China Seas.
- forthrightness — The characteristic or quality of being forthright.
- fortifications — Plural form of fortification.
- fortuitousness — The quality of being fortuitous.
- fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
- fountain grass — a perennial grass, Pennisetum setaceum, of Ethiopia, having bristly spikes, often rose-purple, grown as an ornamental.
- four-eyed fish — a small, surface-swimming fish, Anableps anableps, inhabiting shallow, muddy streams of Mexico and Central America, having each eye divided, with the upper half adapted for seeing in air and the lower half for seeing in water.
- fourier series — an infinite series that involves linear combinations of sines and cosines and approximates a given function on a specified domain.
- fowl paralysis — Marek's disease.
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
- fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
- framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
- framing square — a steel square usually having on its faces various tables and scales useful to the carpenter.
- 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.
- franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
- fraternisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of fraternization.
- fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.