14-letter words containing n, o, i, c
- exceptionality — (uncountable) The quality of being exceptional.
- exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
- exclusion zone — law: forbidden entry
- exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
- excommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of excommunicate.
- excommunicates — Plural form of excommunicate.
- excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
- exocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
- exocrine gland — any gland, such as a salivary or sweat gland, that secretes its products through a duct onto an epithelial surface
- expansion card — (hardware) A circuit board which can be plugged into one of a computer's expansion slots to provide some optional extra facility such as additional RAM, disk controller, coprocessor, graphics accelerator, communication device or some special-purpose interface. Different computers have different standards for the cards they accept, e.g. PCI.
- expansionistic — Of, or pertaining to expansionism.
- export invoice — a document issued by an exporter to an importer listing the goods or services supplied and stating the sum of money due
- export licence — a document issued by a government granting permission to a company to export certain goods or services
- extension cord — an extra length of cable that can be added to an electric lead
- extracanonical — not included in the canon of Scripture
- extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
- eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
- fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
- facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
- factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
- fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
- falling action — the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
- 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
- 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
- fanaticization — the act or an instance of making people fanatical
- fantastication — the act of making fantastic
- fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
- fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
- felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
- fellow citizen — law: national of same country
- fencing school — an academy or school where fencing was taught by fencing masters
- ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
- ferry crossing — the act or instance of travelling across the sea by ferry
- fictionalizing — Present participle of fictionalize.
- fictitiousness — The state of being fictitious.
- fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
- fifth monarchy — the fifth and final monarchy following the Assyrian, Persian, Greek (under Alexander the Great), and Roman monarchies, supposed to have been prophesied in Dan. 2.
- finnan haddock — smoked haddock.
- flagellomaniac — a person who is enthusiastic about or derives (sexual) pleasure from whipping or being whipped
- flight control — the direction of airplane movements, especially takeoffs and landings, by messages from the ground.
- floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
- floating stock — stock not held for permanent investment and hence available for speculation; stock held by brokers and speculators rather than investors.
- floor covering — any material used to cover the floor of a room, such as a carpet or tiles
- floorcoverings — Plural form of floorcovering.
- flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
- fluid coupling — Machinery. an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing an equal torque in the other shaft.
- flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
- flying officer — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a pilot officer but junior to a flight lieutenant in the British and certain other air forces
- 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.