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14-letter words containing l, e, a, f

  • false-positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
  • falseheartedly — In a falsehearted manner.
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • 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 therapy — the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
  • family viewing — television programmes that are suitable for both adults and children
  • fantail darter — a North American freshwater fish, Etheostoma flabellare, of the perch family.
  • faraday shield — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
  • fare-thee-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
  • farm-gate sale — the sale of produce direct from the producer
  • farmer-general — (in France, under the old monarchy) a member of a company of capitalists that farmed certain taxes.
  • farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
  • fatherlessness — The state or quality of being fatherless.
  • fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
  • 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.
  • feast of fools — (especially in France) a mock-religious celebration in the Middle Ages, held on or about January 1.
  • feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
  • feather-legged — cowardly.
  • feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
  • federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
  • federalization — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
  • feel one's way — to move or advance cautiously, by or as if by groping
  • fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
  • female-to-male — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity and gender expression is male.
  • femoral artery — the main artery of the thigh, supplying blood to the leg.
  • ferry terminal — docking area for passenger boats
  • fertilizations — Plural form of fertilization.
  • fetal position — a bodily posture resembling that of the fetus in the uterus, in which the body is curled with head and limbs drawn in, sometimes assumed in states of fear or emotional withdrawal.
  • fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
  • fiddle pattern — a pattern of spoon or fork having a handle that narrows abruptly from a broad, flat upper part and terminates with a pronounced shoulder above the bowl or tines.
  • field guidance — a method of guiding a missile to a point within a gravitational or radio field by means of the properties of the field
  • field hospital — an organization of medical personnel with medical equipment for establishing a temporary hospital at isolated posts or in the field to support ground troops in combat.
  • field larkspur — a European plant, Consolida regalis, of the buttercup family, having sparse clusters of blue or violet-colored flowers and smooth fruit.
  • file separator — (character)   (FS) ASCII character 28.
  • file signature — A magic number.
  • filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
  • fillister head — a cylindrical screw head.
  • final dividend — the dividend paid on the basis of a company's results for a whole financial year. The final dividend is usually voted on at a company's AGM
  • final judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • financial year — law: annual accounting period
  • finite decimal — a decimal numeral in which, after a finite number of decimal places, all succeeding place values are 0, as ⅛ = 0.125 (contrasted with nonterminating decimal).
  • fireman's lift — a method of carrying a person, in which you put one shoulder into the person's midriff, lift them and carry them with their head arms and upper torso hanging down your back while you grip their legs with one hand (leaving your other hand free to hold the ladder as you climb down)
  • first language — mother tongue
  • first quartile — (in a frequency distribution) the smallest quartile; the twenty-fifth percentile; the value of the variable below which one quarter of the elements are located.
  • fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
  • five-year plan — any plan for national economic or industrial development specifying goals to be reached within a period of five years, especially as undertaken by the Soviet Union and China.
  • flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
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