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14-letter words containing o, l, e, f, i

  • do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
  • dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
  • 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.
  • ergocalciferol — Constituent of vitamin D1 and vitamin D2.
  • faeroe islands — group of Danish islands in the N Atlantic, between Iceland & the Shetland Islands: 540 sq mi (1,399 sq km); pop. 44,000
  • fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
  • 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 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 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
  • feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
  • 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
  • fellow feeling — sympathetic feeling; sympathy: to have fellow feeling for the unfortunate.
  • 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.
  • fencing school — an academy or school where fencing was taught by fencing masters
  • ferroelectrics — Plural form of ferroelectric.
  • fertile period — the time during a woman's menstrual cycle at which she is most likely to become pregnant, or the equivalent time for an animal
  • fertilizations — Plural form of fertilization.
  • 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.
  • fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
  • field emission — the removal of electrons from a metallic conductor by a strong electric field.
  • field hospital — an organization of medical personnel with medical equipment for establishing a temporary hospital at isolated posts or in the field to support ground troops in combat.
  • field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
  • field of force — the region of space surrounding a body, such as a charged particle or a magnet, within which it can exert a force on another similar body not in contact with it
  • field of honor — the scene of a battle or duel.
  • field-to-wheel — relating to all phases of biofuel production and use from growing to combustion
  • file extension — filename extension
  • file separator — (character)   (FS) ASCII character 28.
  • filiopietistic — of or relating to reverence of forebears or tradition, especially if carried to excess.
  • film projector — an optical instrument in which a strip of film is wound past a lens at a fixed speed so that the frames can be viewed as a continuously moving sequence on a screen or wall
  • finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
  • firth of clyde — an inlet of the Atlantic in SW Scotland. Length: 103 km (64 miles)
  • firth-of-clyde — a river in S Scotland, flowing NW into the Firth of Clyde. 106 miles (170 km) long.
  • flagelliferous — bearing a flagellum
  • flagellomaniac — a person who is enthusiastic about or derives (sexual) pleasure from whipping or being whipped
  • flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
  • flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
  • flemish scroll — a scroll, as on a chair leg, having the form of two intersecting and oppositely curved C-scrolls.
  • flexible joint — A flexible joint is a coupling which can transmit torque between two shafts which are not aligned.
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