14-letter words containing r, o, f, i, n, g
- forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
- foreign legion — a military unit consisting of foreign volunteers in the service of a state.
- foreign office — the department of a government that handles foreign affairs.
- foreign policy — a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.
- foreshortening — Fine Arts. to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.
- forthrightness — The characteristic or quality of being forthright.
- fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
- fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
- forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
- fountain grass — a perennial grass, Pennisetum setaceum, of Ethiopia, having bristly spikes, often rose-purple, grown as an ornamental.
- fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
- francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
- freezing point — the temperature at which a liquid freezes: The freezing point of water is 32°F, 0°C.
- freezing works — a slaughterhouse at which animal carcasses are frozen for export
- fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
- frozen pudding — a frozen or chilled dessert mixture of rich custard, nuts or candied fruit, and sometimes liquor.
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- gentrification — the buying and renovation of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
- getting on for — Getting on for means the same as nearly.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- gratifications — Plural form of gratification.
- half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
- infant prodigy — an exceptionally talented child
- long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
- microfortnight — One millionth of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measurement; 1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel; the mass unit of the system is taken to be a firkin of water). The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realises that the current value is bogus. This time is specified in microfortnights! Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnight have also been reported.
- miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
- morgain le fay — Morgan le Fay.
- morning coffee — a mid-morning snack with a cup of coffee drunk during a short break at work, or in your house, when you might invite someone in
- mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- nitrogen fixer — any of various microorganisms in the soil involved in the process of nitrogen fixation.
- non-conforming — to act in accordance or harmony; comply (usually followed by to): to conform to rules.
- noninterfering — Not interfering.
- not forgetting — You say not forgetting a particular thing or person when you want to include them in something that you have already talked about.
- nothing for it — no choice; no other course
- offering price — the price quoted when something is offered for sale, especially the price per share, as of an investment security or mutual fund being sold to the public.
- office manager — employee in charge of office personnel
- on firm ground — in a safe situation
- openoffice.org — (project) (OOo) The group that produces a free (GPL) cross-platform office suite that provides much of the same functionality as Microsoft Office including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and graphics. Each program can read and write both its own and Microsoft formats.
- organ of corti — Anatomy, Zoology. a structure in the cochlea of a mammal, consisting of hair cells that serve as receptors for auditory stimuli.
- over-dignified — to confer honor or dignity upon; honor; ennoble.
- oxford english — that form of the received pronunciation of English supposed to be typical of Oxford University and regarded by many as affected or pretentious
- oyster farming — the activity of cultivating oysters for food or pearls
- peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
- pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons
- profit sharing — the sharing of profits, as between employer and employee, especially in such a way that the employee receives, in addition to wages, a share in the profits of the business.
- profit warning — a public announcement made by a company to shareholders and others warning that profits for a stated period will be much lower than had been expected
- profit-seeking — attempting to make a profit or financial gains
- profit-sharing — the sharing of profits, as between employer and employee, especially in such a way that the employee receives, in addition to wages, a share in the profits of the business.
- ramos gin fizz — a cocktail of gin, egg white, lime and lemon juice, sugar, and cream, shaken with ice and often topped with soda or seltzer.