14-letter words containing l, o, s
- fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
- fellow student — sb studying at same institution
- fellowshipping — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
- fencing school — an academy or school where fencing was taught by fencing masters
- ferroelectrics — Plural form of ferroelectric.
- 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.
- field emission — the removal of electrons from a metallic conductor by a strong electric 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 mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- file extension — filename extension
- file separator — (character) (FS) ASCII character 28.
- filiopietistic — of or relating to reverence of forebears or tradition, especially if carried to excess.
- final solution — the Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich.
- fissionability — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
- flagelliferous — bearing a flagellum
- flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
- 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
- flaked almonds — small flat pieces of almond used in cooking
- flanders poppy — corn poppy.
- flashing point — flash point (def 1).
- flavorlessness — The state or condition of being flavorless; lack of flavor.
- flavorsomeness — The quality of being flavorsome.
- flemish scroll — a scroll, as on a chair leg, having the form of two intersecting and oppositely curved C-scrolls.
- flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- flip one's lid — a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
- floating stock — stock not held for permanent investment and hence available for speculation; stock held by brokers and speculators rather than investors.
- flood defences — structures such as dams, artificial channels, etc, built to protect an area from flooding
- 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.
- florence flask — a round bottle having a flat bottom and long neck, for use in laboratories.
- 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.
- flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea
- flotsam-jetsam — the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating on the water. Compare jetsam, lagan.
- flowering moss — pyxie.
- flowers of tan — a common slime mold, Fuligo septica, of the central and eastern U.S., having large sporophores and yellowish, foamy plasmodia, that during a wet growing season may spread to cover large areas of lawns, woody debris, and growing plants.
- flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
- foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
- focal distance — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
- focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
- folies bergere — a Parisian music hall founded in 1869 and noted for the lavish spectacle and mildly risqué content of its entertainments.
- follow the sea — to make one's living by serving on oceangoing ships
- fool's-parsley — an Old World fetid, poisonous plant, Aethusa cynapium, resembling parsley.
- foolscap sheet — a sheet of foolscap paper
- football pools — If you do the football pools, you take part in a gambling competition in which people try to win money by guessing the results of football matches.