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

  • fanum fortunae — ancient name of Fano.
  • farey sequence — the increasing sequence of fractions in which numerator and denominator have no common divisor other than one and in which the denominator is less than or equal to a given positive integer p. For p = 4, the Farey sequence of order 4 is 0/1, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 1/1.
  • farfetchedness — the quality of being far-fetched
  • farmer-general — (in France, under the old monarchy) a member of a company of capitalists that farmed certain taxes.
  • farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
  • farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
  • 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
  • fashionmongers — Plural form of fashionmonger.
  • fatherlessness — The state or quality of being fatherless.
  • 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.
  • feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.
  • featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
  • featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
  • feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
  • federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
  • federalization — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
  • feed-in tariff — a payment above the market rate paid to a small-scale producer of renewable energy by a large energy provider
  • feeding frenzy — Slang. a ruthless attack on or exploitation of someone especially by the media.
  • feeding ground — The feeding ground of a group of animals or birds, is the place where they find food and eat.
  • fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
  • feminine rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
  • fencing master — an expert in, and teacher of, the art and sport of fencing
  • fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
  • ferrimagnetism — (physics) a form of antiferromagnetism in which some magnetization remains below a critical temperature (the Neel temperature).
  • ferromagnesian — (of minerals and rocks) containing iron and magnesium.
  • 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.
  • ferromanganese — a ferroalloy containing up to 90 percent manganese.
  • ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
  • ferry crossing — the act or instance of travelling across the sea by ferry
  • ferry terminal — docking area for passenger boats
  • fertilizations — Plural form of fertilization.
  • fibrinopeptide — (protein) A polypeptide fragment, cleaved from fibrinogen by thrombin, that combines to form fibrin during blood-clotting.
  • fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
  • fiddle pattern — a pattern of spoon or fork having a handle that narrows abruptly from a broad, flat upper part and terminates with a pronounced shoulder above the bowl or tines.
  • fidei defensor — Defender of the Faith: one of the titles of English sovereigns.
  • fidget spinner — a small toy comprising two or three prongs arranged around a central bearing, designed to be spun by the fingers as means of improving concentration or relieving stress
  • field of honor — the scene of a battle or duel.
  • field strength — the intensity of an electromagnetic wave at any point in the area covered by a radio or television transmitter
  • fiesta taurina — fiesta de toros.
  • figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
  • figure skating — ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice.
  • figure-hugging — Figure-hugging clothes fit very close to the body of the person who is wearing them. Figure-hugging is usually used to describe clothes worn by women.
  • file signature — A magic number.
  • filter feeding — a method of feeding occurring in some aquatic animals, such as planktonic invertebrates and whalebone whales, in which minute food particles are filtered from the surrounding water
  • finance charge — interest or a fee charged for borrowing money or buying on credit.
  • financial year — law: annual accounting period
  • fine structure — a group of lines that are observed in the spectra of certain elements, as hydrogen, and that are caused by various couplings of the azimuthal quantum number and the angular momentum quantum number.
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