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14-letter words containing n, o, t, i, f

  • disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
  • door furniture — locks, handles, etc, designed for use on doors
  • drafting board — drawing board.
  • drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
  • drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
  • effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
  • electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
  • electroforming — a process used to create a metallic object by electrolytic deposition on a mould or matrix
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • fallopian tube — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • 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
  • fanaticization — the act or an instance of making people fanatical
  • fantastication — the act of making fantastic
  • farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
  • fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
  • fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
  • 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.
  • fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • fastidiousness — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
  • fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
  • 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
  • felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
  • fellow citizen — law: national of same country
  • 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.
  • festive season — People sometimes refer to the Christmas period as the festive season.
  • 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.
  • fibrinopeptide — (protein) A polypeptide fragment, cleaved from fibrinogen by thrombin, that combines to form fibrin during blood-clotting.
  • fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
  • 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.
  • fifth position — a position similar to the first position, but with one foot in front, the heel and toe of the front foot adjacent to the toe and heel of the back foot.
  • fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • file extension — filename extension
  • final solution — the Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich.
  • fineness ratio — Aeronautics. the ratio of the length of a streamlined body, as a rocket or airplane hull, to its maximum diameter.
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • fingerpointing — Alternative form of finger-pointing.
  • finlandization — the neutralization of a country in terms of its allegiance to the superpowers, in the way that the Soviet Union rendered Finland neutral and friendly without making it a satellite state or requiring that it adopt Communism.
  • finnbogadottir — Vigdís [Icelandic vig-dees] /Icelandic vɪgˈdis/ (Show IPA), born 1930, Icelandic political leader: president 1980–96.
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