14-letter words containing o, f
- false position — a situation in which a person is forced to act or seems to be acting against his principles or interests
- false positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
- 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
- false scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
- false-positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
- family compact — any influential clique
- family romance — a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- fanaticization — the act or an instance of making people fanatical
- fantastication — the act of making fantastic
- fanum fortunae — ancient name of Fano.
- farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
- farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
- fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
- fashion design — the activity of designing fashionable clothes
- fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
- fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers
- 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.
- fashionmongers — Plural form of fashionmonger.
- fashionmonging — the act of analysing, following or advising others on fashion
- fast of esther — a Jewish fast day observed on the 13th day of the month of Adar in memory of Esther's fast of three days before petitioning her husband, King Ahasuerus of Persia, to spare the Jews from destruction by Haman.
- 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.
- fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
- fault tolerant — fault tolerance
- fault-tolerant — designed to return to a safe condition in the event of a failure or malfunction
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- fd and c color — any of the synthetic pigments and dyes that are approved by the FDA for use in foods, drugs, and cosmetics.
- feast of fools — (especially in France) a mock-religious celebration in the Middle Ages, held on or about January 1.
- feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
- feature editor — a newspaper or magazine journalist who commissions and edits feature articles
- 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
- feeding ground — The feeding ground of a group of animals or birds, is the place where they find food and eat.
- feel compelled — If you feel compelled to do something, you feel that you must do it, because it is the right thing to do.
- feel one's way — to move or advance cautiously, by or as if by groping
- felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
- fellow citizen — law: national of same country
- fellow feeling — sympathetic feeling; sympathy: to have fellow feeling for the unfortunate.
- fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
- fellow student — sb studying at same institution
- fellow-feeling — sympathetic feeling; sympathy: to have fellow feeling for the unfortunate.
- fellowshipping — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
- female-to-male — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity and gender expression is male.
- femoral artery — the main artery of the thigh, supplying blood to the leg.
- femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
- fencing school — an academy or school where fencing was taught by fencing masters
- ferroelectrics — Plural form of ferroelectric.