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14-letter words containing o, f, i, a

  • backside-front — backend-to.
  • balm of gilead — any of several trees of the burseraceous genus Commiphora, esp C. opobalsamum of Africa and W Asia, that yield a fragrant oily resin
  • balm-of-gilead — any of several plants of the genus Commiphora, especially C. opobalsamum and C. meccanensis, which yield a fragrant oleoresin.
  • bancroft prize — one of a group of annual awards for literary achievement in American history and biography: administered by Columbia University.
  • baptismal font — a large bowl for baptismal water, usually mounted on a pedestal
  • baranof island — an island off SE Alaska, in the western part of the Alexander Archipelago. Area: 4162 sq km (1607 sq miles)
  • battle of wits — If you refer to a situation as a battle of wits, you mean that it involves people with opposing aims who compete with each other using their intelligence, rather than force.
  • be gagging for — to be very eager to have or do something
  • beautification — Making beautiful, beautifying, improving the appearance of something.
  • bill of health — a certificate, issued by a port officer, that attests to the health of a ship's company
  • bill of lading — (in foreign trade) a document containing full particulars of goods shipped or for shipment
  • binary fission — asexual reproduction in unicellular organisms by division into two daughter cells
  • bioinformatics — the branch of information science concerned with large databases of biochemical or pharmaceutical information
  • block faulting — the process by which tensional forces in the earth's crust cause large bodies of rock to founder.
  • body beautiful — a beautiful body
  • branch officer — (in the British navy since 1949) any officer who holds warrant
  • buffalo indian — a member of any of the American Indian tribes, as those of the Algonquian, Athabascan, Caddoan, Kiowa, Siouan, or Uto-Aztecan linguistic families, that formerly inhabited the Great Plains. All were more or less nomadic, following the buffalo, and were often in touch with one another so that the development among them of common culture traits is noticeable.
  • cache conflict — (storage)   A sequence of accesses to memory repeatedly overwriting the same cache entry. This can happen if two blocks of data, which are mapped to the same set of cache locations, are needed simultaneously. For example, in the case of a direct mapped cache, if arrays A, B, and C map to the same range of cache locations, thrashing will occur when the following loop is executed: See also ping-pong.
  • café macchiato — a hot beverage consisting of espresso and a small amount of foamed milk.
  • calorification — the production of heat
  • caltrop family — the plant family Zygophyllaceae, typified by tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having pinnate leaves, solitary or paired regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the creosote bush, lignum vitae, and puncture vine.
  • can ill afford — If you say that someone can ill afford to do something, or can ill afford something, you mean that they must prevent it from happening because it would be harmful or embarrassing to them.
  • canicola fever — an acute febrile disease of humans and dogs, characterized by inflammation of the stomach and intestines and by jaundice: caused by a spirochete, Leptospira canicola.
  • capital inflow — In economics, capital inflow is the amount of capital coming into a country, for example in the form of foreign investment.
  • caprimulgiform — Of or pertaining to the taxonomic order Caprimulgiformes.
  • careers office — a room or building in which vocational advice can be obtained from a Careers Officer and which often also has books, leaflets, etc on careers
  • carrion feeder — any animal that feeds on dead and rotting flesh
  • carrion flower — a liliaceous climbing plant, Smilax herbacea of E North America, whose small green flowers smell like decaying flesh
  • catch sight of — to make out by means of the eyes; discern; see
  • central office — (communications)   The place where telephone companies terminate customer lines and locate switching equipment to interconnect those lines with other networks.
  • centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
  • certifications — Plural form of certification.
  • change of life — The change of life is the menopause.
  • chief of staff — The Chiefs of Staff are the most senior officers in each service of the armed forces.
  • chief of state — the titular head of a nation, as a president or king.
  • circumfixation — a prefix and a suffix attached to a root or stem, as the a and -ing in a-going.
  • clarifications — Plural form of clarification.
  • class conflict — conflict between different social or economic classes
  • classification — A classification is a division or category in a system which divides things into groups or types.
  • classificatory — the act of classifying.
  • coffee machine — a machine that makes coffee from ground coffee
  • combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
  • comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
  • comfortability — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
  • confabulations — Plural form of confabulation.
  • confederations — Plural form of confederation.
  • confessionally — in a confessional manner
  • confidence man — A confidence man is a man who persuades people to give him their money or property by lying to them.
  • confidentially — Confidentially is used to say that what you are telling someone is a secret and should not be discussed with anyone else.
  • configuraholic — (jargon)   A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
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