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

  • dwarf fan palm — a small palm, Chamaedorea elegans, native to Central America, having a reedlike stem and long, pointed leaflets, widely cultivated as a houseplant.
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • engine failure — failure to operate by the engine of an aircraft, car, or other vehicle
  • faculty lounge — a staffroom
  • faeroe islands — group of Danish islands in the N Atlantic, between Iceland & the Shetland Islands: 540 sq mi (1,399 sq km); pop. 44,000
  • fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
  • 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 beginner — a language student who has some knowledge of a language, but who needs to start again from the beginning
  • 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 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 scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
  • 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.
  • 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 viewing — television programmes that are suitable for both adults and children
  • fantail darter — a North American freshwater fish, Etheostoma flabellare, of the perch family.
  • fantasticality — The quality of being fantastical.
  • farmer-general — (in France, under the old monarchy) a member of a company of capitalists that farmed certain taxes.
  • fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
  • fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • 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.
  • fd and c color — any of the synthetic pigments and dyes that are approved by the FDA for use in foods, drugs, and cosmetics.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • file signature — A magic number.
  • filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
  • 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).
  • final solution — the Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich.
  • financial year — law: annual accounting period
  • finishing nail — a slender nail with a small globular head, used for finish work, being driven to slightly beneath the surface and covered with putty or the like.
  • 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).
  • finlandization — the neutralization of a country in terms of its allegiance to the superpowers, in the way that the Soviet Union rendered Finland neutral and friendly without making it a satellite state or requiring that it adopt Communism.
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