14-letter words containing n, o, t, i, c
- extracanonical — not included in the canon of Scripture
- extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
- fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
- factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
- falling action — the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
- 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
- fictionalizing — Present participle of fictionalize.
- fictitiousness — The state of being fictitious.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- forbidden city — a walled section of Peking, built in the 15th century, containing the imperial palace and other buildings of the imperial government of China.
- forcible entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
- fortifications — Plural form of fortification.
- fortune cookie — a thin folded wafer containing a prediction or maxim printed on a slip of paper: often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants.
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- fractionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalize.
- friction drive — a power transmission system utilizing a set of friction gears so arranged that varying their positions relative to one another gives a wide range of speed ratios.
- friction layer — the atmospheric layer extending up to about 600 m, in which the aerodynamic effects of surface friction are appreciable
- friction match — a kind of match tipped with a compound that ignites by friction.
- frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
- fructification — act of fructifying; the fruiting of a plant, fungus, etc.
- fuel injection — the spraying of liquid fuel into the cylinders or combustion chambers of an engine.
- function creep — the gradual widening of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended, esp when this leads to potential invasion of privacy
- function shift — a change in the syntactic function of a word, as when the noun mushroom is used as an intransitive verb
- function space — a linear space, the elements of which are functions.
- functionalised — to make functional.
- functionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of functionalize.
- fundoplication — (surgery) An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.
- fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
- galactic noise — unidentified radio-frequency radiation originating from beyond the solar system.
- galeopithecine — of, relating to, or resembling the flying lemur (Galeopithecus)
- galvanoplastic — pertaining to reproduction by electrotypy.
- gamma function — a function defined by Γ(x) = ∫0∞tx–1e–tdt, where x is real and greater than zero
- ganglionectomy — the excision of a ganglion.
- gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
- geiger counter — an instrument for detecting ionizing radiations, consisting of a gas-filled tube in which electric-current pulses are produced when the gas is ionized by radiation, and of a device to register these pulses: used chiefly to measure radioactivity.
- gelatification — the process of gelatinizing.
- genethlialogic — relating to the science of casting horoscopes
- gentrification — the buying and renovation of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
- geocentrically — In a geocentric manner.
- geognostically — with reference to a knowledge of the structure of the earth