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

  • forisfamiliate — to free from paternal authority
  • formal methods — (mathematics, specification)   Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
  • foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
  • fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
  • franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
  • frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • gallery forest — a narrow strip of woods or forest along the banks of a watercourse flowing through open country.
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
  • half-note rest — a pause of half a semibreve
  • half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
  • ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
  • in lieu of sth — If you do, get, or give one thing in lieu of another, you do, get, or give it instead of the other thing, because the two things are considered to have the same value or importance.
  • infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
  • inflammatories — Plural form of inflammatory.
  • inflectionless — Without inflection.
  • isle of thanet — an island in SE England, in NE Kent, separated from the mainland by two branches of the River Stour: scene of many Norse invasions. Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
  • kettle of fish — an awkward, difficult, or bad situation; muddle; mess: He's managed to get himself into a fine kettle of fish!
  • leaf-nosed bat — any of various New and Old World bats, as of the families Phyllostomatidae, Rhinolophidae, and Hipposideridae, having a leaflike flap of skin at the tip of the nose.
  • lend itself to — to be adapted to, useful for, or open to
  • let oneself go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • man of letters — highly educated man
  • microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
  • moment of sail — the product of a given area of sail, taken as the maximum safe area, and the vertical distance from the center of effort and the center of lateral resistance.
  • mosquito fleet — a group or fleet of PT boats or other small, armed boats.
  • moveable feast — a religious festival that occurs on a different date each year
  • new forest fly — a blood-sucking fly, Hippobosca equinus, that attacks horses and cattle
  • nonfilamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
  • nonfluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
  • opposite field — the opposite part of the outfield in relation to the batter, as left field for a right-handed batter.
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • pay for itself — If something that you buy or invest in pays for itself after a period of time, the money you gain from it, or save because you have it, is greater than the amount you originally spent or invested.
  • people's front — popular front.
  • personal staff — the aides of a general officer or a flag officer.
  • platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
  • platform soles — very thick soles on a pair of shoes
  • potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
  • reflectionless — unable to reflect, not possessing a reflection
  • repeat oneself — to say or do the same thing more than once, esp so as to be tedious
  • sales forecast — a prediction of future sales of a product, either judgmental or based on previous sales patterns
  • self-adornment — something that adds attractiveness; ornament; accessory: the adornments and furnishings of a room.
  • self-adulation — excessive devotion to someone; servile flattery.
  • self-appointed — chosen by oneself to act in a certain capacity or to fulfill a certain function, especially pompously or self-righteously: a self-appointed guardian of the public's morals.
  • self-assertion — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
  • self-collected — having or showing self-control; composed; self-possessed.
  • self-conceited — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
  • self-confident — realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
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