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14-letter words containing o, s, t, e, f

  • defenestration — the act of throwing someone out of a window
  • defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
  • depth of focus — the amount by which the distance between the camera lens and the film can be altered without the resulting image appearing blurred
  • diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
  • disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
  • discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
  • disinfestation — The act or process of disinfesting.
  • disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
  • do one's stuff — If you do your stuff, you perform an activity in the way that people expect.
  • do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
  • domestic staff — servants
  • duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
  • effective dose — the amount of a drug, or level of radiation exposure, that is sufficient to achieve the desired clinical improvement.
  • effortlessness — The state of being effortless; facility.
  • electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
  • elevator shaft — passage for a lift
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
  • every so often — now and again
  • extraforaneous — (nonce, archaic) outdoor.
  • 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.
  • 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-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.
  • fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
  • 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.
  • fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
  • feast of fools — (especially in France) a mock-religious celebration in the Middle Ages, held on or about January 1.
  • federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
  • felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
  • fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
  • fellow student — sb studying at same institution
  • femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
  • ferroelectrics — Plural form of ferroelectric.
  • 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.
  • fictitiousness — The state of being fictitious.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • fineness ratio — Aeronautics. the ratio of the length of a streamlined body, as a rocket or airplane hull, to its maximum diameter.
  • finsteraarhorn — a mountain in S central Switzerland: highest peak of the Bernese Alps, 14,026 feet (4275 meters).
  • first mortgage — a mortgage having priority over other mortgages on property.
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