14-letter words containing n, o, t, i, f
- shifty-looking — having the appearance of being dishonest
- shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
- simplification — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- snap out of it — return quickly to normal
- snowball fight — game: throwing balls of snow
- soft margarine — a soft, spreadable margarine that is made with more liquid oils and less hydrogenated oils than hard, block margarine
- solidification — to make solid; make into a hard or compact mass; change from a liquid or gaseous to a solid form.
- son of a bitch — a contemptible or thoroughly disagreeable person; scoundrel.
- sorting office — postal
- southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
- sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
- staff discount — a discount off goods sold by a particular shop, given to members of staff of that shop
- staffing ratio — the ratio of the staff or workforce of a place to another group, for example to staff in another department, the ratio of patients to nurses in a hospital, or the ratio of pupils to teachers in a school
- stagflationary — of, caused by, or relating to, stagflation
- state function — a thermodynamic quantity that has definite values for given states of a system, such as entropy, enthalpy, free energy, etc
- stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
- stop-and-frisk — a policy that permits a police officer to momentarily detain and pat down or search a person suspected of criminal activity, especially when suspected of concealing a weapon.
- stratification — the act or an instance of stratifying.
- subinfeudation — the granting of a portion of an estate by a feudal tenant to a subtenant, held from the tenant on terms similar to those of the grant to the tenant.
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- sulfantimonide — any compound containing an antimonide and a sulfide.
- superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
- superinfection — marked proliferation of a parasitic microorganism during antimicrobial treatment for another infection.
- superinflation — hyperinflation.
- syntactic foam — any of several buoyant materials made up of tiny hollow spheres embedded in a surrounding plastic
- tasmanian wolf — thylacine.
- technical foul — a foul committed by a player or coach, usually not involving physical contact with an opponent, called often for unsportsmanlike conduct, as holding on to the basket or using profanity, that gives the opposing team one or two free throws and sometimes, if the foul was flagrant, requires the ejection of the offending player or coach from the game.
- the federation — the federation of the Australian colonies in 1901
- the final four — the last four teams remaining in a tournament
- the five towns — the name given in his fiction by Arnold Bennett to the Potteries towns (actually six in number) of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall, now part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent
- theory of mind — Psychology, Philosophy. the ability to interpret one’s own and other people’s mental and emotional states, understanding that each person has unique motives, perspectives, etc.: People with autism seem to lack theory of mind. Abbreviation: ToM, TOM.
- thetford mines — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: asbestos mining.
- tin difluoride — stannous fluoride.
- to overflowing — If a place or container is filled to overflowing, it is so full of people or things that no more can fit in.
- to return fire — If you return fire or you return someone's fire, you shoot back at someone who has shot at you.
- to windward of — advantageously situated with respect to
- total fighting — a combat sport in which very few restrictions are placed on the type of blows or tactics that may be used
- transfer orbit — the flight path of a space vehicle moving from a nearly circular orbit to one with different parameters.
- transformation — the act or process of transforming.
- transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transformistic — of or relating to transformism or transformists
- transfusionist — a medical professional who transfuses blood into someone
- truant officer — a school attendance officer whose job is to locate truants and return them to school
- trustification — the practice or process of forming a monopolistic system or trusts: the trustification of the oil business.
- truth-function — a statement so constructed from other statements that its truth-value depends on the truth-values of the other statements rather than on their meanings.
- unaffectionate — showing, indicating, or characterized by affection or love; fondly tender: an affectionate embrace.
- underinflation — the lack of sufficient air pressure
- uniformitarian — supporting, conforming to, or derived from a theory or doctrine about uniformity, especially on the subject of geology.
- uniformization — to bring into uniformity.
- unsatisfaction — lack of satisfaction