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14-letter words containing n, e, t, l

  • 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-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.
  • fantail darter — a North American freshwater fish, Etheostoma flabellare, of the perch family.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
  • fellow student — sb studying at same institution
  • fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
  • 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.
  • 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 strength — the intensity of an electromagnetic wave at any point in the area covered by a radio or television transmitter
  • file extension — filename extension
  • file signature — A magic number.
  • filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
  • filter feeding — a method of feeding occurring in some aquatic animals, such as planktonic invertebrates and whalebone whales, in which minute food particles are filtered from the surrounding water
  • final judgment — judgment (def 8).
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • 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
  • 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.
  • flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
  • flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
  • flash smelting — a smelting process for sulphur-containing ores in which the dried and powdered ore, mixed with oxygen, is ignited on discharge from a nozzle, melts, and drops to the bottom of a settling chamber. Sulphur is released mainly in its solid form, thus reducing atmospheric pollution
  • flexible joint — A flexible joint is a coupling which can transmit torque between two shafts which are not aligned.
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • floating heart — any of certain aquatic plants belonging to the genus Nymphoides, of the gentian family, especially N. aquatica, having floating, more or less heart-shaped leaves and a cluster of small, white, five-petaled flowers.
  • floating voter — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
  • 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 trapeze — a trapeze used in performing gymnastic displays high above the ground
  • focal distance — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
  • foliated joint — a joint between the rabbeted and overlapping edges of two boards, forming a continuous surface on each side.
  • fonthill abbey — a ruined Gothic Revival mansion in Wiltshire: rebuilt (1790–1810) for William Beckford by James Wyatt; the main tower collapsed in 1800 and, after rebuilding, again in 1827
  • footplatewoman — a female footplate worker
  • forcible entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
  • forget oneself — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
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