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14-letter words containing r, e, f, n, c, a

  • isle of france — Île-de-France
  • lawrence frame — a gilded frame for a circular or oval painting, having a rectangular exterior form.
  • leafcutter ant — any of various South American ants of the genus Atta that cut pieces of leaves and use them as fertilizer for the fungus on which they feed
  • left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
  • life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
  • life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.
  • lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
  • magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
  • manufacturable — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
  • merchant fleet — the total number of civilian ships of a country carrying either passengers or cargo (goods)
  • microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
  • microfinancier — A person or organisation offering microfinance.
  • misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
  • nonconformance — lack of conformity.
  • nondiffractive — Not diffractive.
  • nonperformance — failure or neglect to perform.
  • norfolk jacket — a loosely belted single-breasted jacket, with box pleats in front and back.
  • nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
  • nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
  • of a certainty — without a doubt; certainly
  • office manager — employee in charge of office personnel
  • on the surface — to all appearances
  • outperformance — The act or state of outperforming.
  • packet sniffer — (networking, tool)   A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
  • parturifacient — inducing or accelerating labor, or childbirth; oxytocic.
  • peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
  • pelican-flower — a woody vine, Aristolochia grandiflora, of the West Indies, having heart-shaped leaves and purple-spotted, purple-veined flowers from 18 to 24 inches (46 to 61 cm) wide with a long, taillike structure at the tip of the corolla.
  • pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons
  • prairie falcon — a North American falcon, Falco mexicanus, grayish-brown above and white barred with brown below.
  • prefabrication — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • premanufacture — to manufacture in advance
  • preperformance — occurring before a performance
  • prettification — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
  • preunification — of the period before unification
  • pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
  • radiofrequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • recodification — the act, process, or result of arranging in a systematic form or code.
  • reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
  • reefing jacket — a man's short double-breasted jacket of sturdy wool
  • reference mark — Surveying. a permanent mark set at a specific distance in a specific direction from a survey station so as to permit accurate reestablishment of the station.
  • reflected plan — a plan, as of a room, taken as seen from above but having the outlines of some upper surface, as a vault or compartmented ceiling, projected downward upon it so that a part that would appear at the right when seen from below appears on the plan at the left.
  • refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
  • regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
  • relexification — to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
  • remanufacturer — a company or industry that engages in making an existing product new again
  • resinification — to convert into a resin.
  • reverification — the act of verifying.
  • revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
  • sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
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