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

  • 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.
  • farmhouse loaf — a large white loaf, baked in a tin, with slightly curved sides and top
  • fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
  • favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
  • 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.
  • feel one's way — to move or advance cautiously, by or as if by groping
  • 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
  • fellowshipping — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
  • fencing school — an academy or school where fencing was taught by fencing masters
  • ferroelectrics — Plural form of ferroelectric.
  • fertilizations — Plural form of fertilization.
  • 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.
  • field emission — the removal of electrons from a metallic conductor by a strong electric field.
  • 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.
  • field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
  • 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.
  • flagelliferous — bearing a flagellum
  • flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
  • 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
  • flaked almonds — small flat pieces of almond used in cooking
  • flanders poppy — corn poppy.
  • flavorlessness — The state or condition of being flavorless; lack of flavor.
  • flavorsomeness — The quality of being flavorsome.
  • flemish scroll — a scroll, as on a chair leg, having the form of two intersecting and oppositely curved C-scrolls.
  • flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • flip one's lid — a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
  • flood defences — structures such as dams, artificial channels, etc, built to protect an area from flooding
  • floor exercise — a competition in which each entrant performs a routine of acrobatic tumbling feats and balletic movements without any apparatus on a specifically designated floor space, usually 12 meters (39 feet) square and having a matlike covering.
  • floor polisher — an electrical appliance used for polishing floors
  • floorcoverings — Plural form of floorcovering.
  • florence flask — a round bottle having a flat bottom and long neck, for use in laboratories.
  • flotsam-jetsam — the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating on the water. Compare jetsam, lagan.
  • flowering moss — pyxie.
  • flowers of tan — a common slime mold, Fuligo septica, of the central and eastern U.S., having large sporophores and yellowish, foamy plasmodia, that during a wet growing season may spread to cover large areas of lawns, woody debris, and growing plants.
  • foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
  • focal distance — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
  • folies bergere — a Parisian music hall founded in 1869 and noted for the lavish spectacle and mildly risqué content of its entertainments.
  • follow the sea — to make one's living by serving on oceangoing ships
  • fool's-parsley — an Old World fetid, poisonous plant, Aethusa cynapium, resembling parsley.
  • foolscap sheet — a sheet of foolscap paper
  • foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
  • forget oneself — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
  • forisfamiliate — to free from paternal authority
  • formal methods — (mathematics, specification)   Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
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