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14-letter words containing n, o, s, t, r, i

  • ethnohistorian — One who studies ethnohistory.
  • ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
  • exploding star — an irregular variable star, such as a nova, supernova, or flare star, in which rapid increases in luminosity occur, caused by some form of explosion
  • explorationist — a person involved in exploration, esp of oil, gas, etc
  • expropriations — Plural form of expropriation.
  • extension cord — an extra length of cable that can be added to an electric lead
  • extension ring — a spacer element that can be fixed between the camera body and the lens to increase the distance between film and lens and allow closer focus than would be possible without it
  • extrapolations — Plural form of extrapolation.
  • extravasations — Plural form of extravasation.
  • f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
  • 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
  • farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
  • fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
  • federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
  • ferromagnetism — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
  • fertilizations — Plural form of fertilization.
  • fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • fineness ratio — Aeronautics. the ratio of the length of a streamlined body, as a rocket or airplane hull, to its maximum diameter.
  • finsteraarhorn — a mountain in S central Switzerland: highest peak of the Bernese Alps, 14,026 feet (4275 meters).
  • first division — the half of a league comprising the teams having the best records at a particular time (opposed to second division).
  • first offender — a person convicted of an offense of law for the first time.
  • first position — a position of the feet in which the heels are back to back and the toes point out to the sides.
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
  • foreshortening — Fine Arts. to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.
  • forthrightness — The characteristic or quality of being forthright.
  • fortifications — Plural form of fortification.
  • fortuitousness — The quality of being fortuitous.
  • fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
  • fountain grass — a perennial grass, Pennisetum setaceum, of Ethiopia, having bristly spikes, often rose-purple, grown as an ornamental.
  • fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
  • fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
  • franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
  • fraternisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of fraternization.
  • frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
  • front side bus — (hardware)   (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
  • frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
  • frontierswomen — Plural form of frontierswoman.
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • g-strophanthin — ouabain.
  • galvanotropism — the directional growth of an organism, esp a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus
  • garrison state — a state in which military matters dominate economic and political life.
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • generalisation — The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
  • gerontocracies — Plural form of gerontocracy.
  • ghost prisoner — a prisoner, esp one held in US military captivity, whose detention is not publicly acknowledged
  • giant tortoise — any of several large tortoises of the genus Geochelone, of the Galápagos Islands and islands near Madagascar: some are endangered.
  • giganotosaurus — Any of several very large, carnivorous dinosaurs of the subfamily Giganotosaurinae, from the Cretaceous period.
  • glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
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