14-letter words containing l, i, f, t
- electroforming — a process used to create a metallic object by electrolytic deposition on a mould or matrix
- emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
- enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
- fair-trade law — a state or federal law authorizing fair-trade agreements: repealed 1975.
- fall victim to — If you fall victim to something or someone, you suffer as a result of them, or you are killed by them.
- fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
- falling action — the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
- falling market — a stock market in which share prices are falling
- fallopian tube — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
- false negative — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test failed to recognize an existing condition or finding. a person who receives this test result.
- false position — a situation in which a person is forced to act or seems to be acting against his principles or interests
- 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.
- 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-negative — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test failed to recognize an existing condition or finding. a person who receives this test result.
- 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.
- falsifiability — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- family compact — any influential clique
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- 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.
- fantail darter — a North American freshwater fish, Etheostoma flabellare, of the perch family.
- fantasticality — The quality of being fantastical.
- fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
- fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fatalistically — the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.
- feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
- federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
- federalization — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
- feeding bottle — infant's feeding receptacle
- feel the pinch — If a person or company is feeling the pinch, they do not have as much money as they used to, and so they cannot buy the things they would like to buy.
- felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
- fellow citizen — law: national of same country
- fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
- ferroelectrics — Plural form of ferroelectric.
- ferry terminal — docking area for passenger boats
- 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
- fertility cult — a religious cult devoted to the enhancement of the fertility of persons, plants, or animals, by means of rituals often associated with a particular deity.
- fertility drug — a substance that enhances the ability to produce young.
- 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.
- fichtelgebirge — a mountain range in E central Germany, near the Czech border. Highest peak, Schneeberg, 3447 feet (1051 meters).
- fictionalizing — Present participle of fictionalize.
- 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.
- fiddler beetle — a black scarab beetle, Eupoecila australasiae, having markings resembling a violin.
- 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 strength — the intensity of an electromagnetic wave at any point in the area covered by a radio or television transmitter
- field-to-wheel — relating to all phases of biofuel production and use from growing to combustion
- fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
- figwort family — the plant family Scrophulariaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having alternate or opposite leaves, often showy two-lipped or irregular flowers, fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the figwort, foxglove, Indian paintbrush, mullein, speedwell, and snapdragon.