14-letter words containing n, a, f, t
- bancroft prize — one of a group of annual awards for literary achievement in American history and biography: administered by Columbia University.
- banker's draft — A banker's draft is the same as a bank draft.
- baptismal font — a large bowl for baptismal water, usually mounted on a pedestal
- beautification — Making beautiful, beautifying, improving the appearance of something.
- betake oneself — to go; move
- betray oneself — to reveal one's true character, intentions, etc
- binding rafter — a timber for supporting rafters between their extremities, as a purlin.
- bioinformatics — the branch of information science concerned with large databases of biochemical or pharmaceutical information
- blanket finish — a finish so close that a blanket would cover all the contestants involved
- blanket-flower — any composite plant of the genus Gaillardia, having showy heads of yellow or red flowers.
- block faulting — the process by which tensional forces in the earth's crust cause large bodies of rock to founder.
- bornyl formate — a liquid, C 11 H 18 O 2 , having a piny odor, used chiefly as a scent in the manufacture of soaps and disinfectants.
- bracket fungus — any saprotroph or parasitic fungus of the basidiomycetous family Polyporaceae, growing as a shelflike mass (bracket) from tree trunks and producing spores in vertical tubes in the bracket
- brandy snifter — snifter (def 1).
- brass farthing — something of little or no value
- breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
- burschenschaft — a students' fraternity, originally one concerned with Christian ideals, patriotism, etc
- cache conflict — (storage) A sequence of accesses to memory repeatedly overwriting the same cache entry. This can happen if two blocks of data, which are mapped to the same set of cache locations, are needed simultaneously. For example, in the case of a direct mapped cache, if arrays A, B, and C map to the same range of cache locations, thrashing will occur when the following loop is executed: See also ping-pong.
- cafeteria plan — a fringe-benefit plan under which employees may choose from among various benefits those that best fit their needs, up to a specified dollar value.
- call of nature — Some people talk about a call of nature when referring politely to the need to go to the toilet.
- calorification — the production of heat
- canton flannel — cotton flannel
- capital inflow — In economics, capital inflow is the amount of capital coming into a country, for example in the form of foreign investment.
- center forward — A center forward in a team sport such as soccer or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
- center of mass — the point in a body or system of bodies at which the entire mass may be assumed to be concentrated
- central office — (communications) The place where telephone companies terminate customer lines and locate switching equipment to interconnect those lines with other networks.
- centre of mass — the point at which the mass of a system could be concentrated without affecting the behaviour of the system under the action of external linear forces
- centre-forward — A centre-forward in a team sport such as football or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
- centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
- centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
- certifications — Plural form of certification.
- christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
- circumfixation — a prefix and a suffix attached to a root or stem, as the a and -ing in a-going.
- clarifications — Plural form of clarification.
- class conflict — conflict between different social or economic classes
- classification — A classification is a division or category in a system which divides things into groups or types.
- clean up after — If you clean up after someone, you clean or tidy a place that they have made dirty or untidy.
- coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
- comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
- common footman — an arctiid moth, ( Eilema lurideola), related to the tiger moth, with yellowish hind wings and brown forewings with a yellow front stripe; they produce woolly bear larvae
- compound fault — a series of closely spaced faults
- confabulations — Plural form of confabulation.
- confederations — Plural form of confederation.
- confidentially — Confidentially is used to say that what you are telling someone is a secret and should not be discussed with anyone else.
- configurations — Plural form of configuration.
- confirmability — the quality of being confirmable
- confirmational — providing proof or supporting evidence
- conflagrations — Plural form of conflagration.
- conformability — Conformableness.
- conformational — manner of formation; structure; form, as of a physical entity.