14-letter words containing r, o, s, e, f
- defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
- diffeomorphism — a differentiable homeomorphism.
- diffuse-porous — having annual rings in which the size of pores is approximately the same in wood formed in spring and summer.
- disafforesting — Present participle of disafforest.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
- do wonders for — to make a remarkable improvement in
- do-it-yourself — of or designed for construction or use by amateurs without special training: a do-it-yourself kit for building a radio.
- duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
- earl of surrey — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
- 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
- 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.
- facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
- 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
- fairy primrose — a tender primrose, Primula malacoides, of China, having hairy leaves and small, pink or lilac-colored flowers.
- 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
- farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
- 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.
- 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.
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
- fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
- femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
- ferroelectrics — Plural form of ferroelectric.
- 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.
- ferry crossing — the act or instance of travelling across the sea by ferry
- fertilizations — Plural form of fertilization.
- fidei defensor — Defender of the Faith: one of the titles of English sovereigns.
- field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- file separator — (character) (FS) ASCII character 28.
- 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).
- fireproof dish — a dish that can withstand heat
- fireworks mode — The mode a machine is sometimes said to be in when it is performing a crash and burn operation.
- first mortgage — a mortgage having priority over other mortgages on property.
- first offender — a person convicted of an offense of law for the first time.
- flagelliferous — bearing a flagellum
- 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