14-letter words containing s, e, o, f
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- golfer's elbow — a painful inflammation of the muscles on the inside of the forearm caused by exertion in playing golf
- goodfellowship — cheerful company
- group of seven — G7.
- guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
- half seas over — of, relating to, or adapted for use at sea.
- half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
- half-note rest — a pause of half a semibreve
- half-seas over — drunk; intoxicated; inebriated.
- half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- heart of stone — lack of compassion
- heat of fusion — the heat absorbed by a unit mass of a given solid at its melting point that completely converts the solid to a liquid at the same temperature: equal to the heat of solidification.
- hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
- heterospecific — belonging to a different species or group
- holy of holies — a place of special sacredness.
- house of cards — a structure or plan that is insubstantial and subject to imminent collapse, as a structure made by balancing playing cards against each other: The scheme is so overly complicated that it's likely to prove to be just another house of cards.
- house of lords — the nonelective, upper house of the British Parliament, comprising the lords spiritual and lords temporal.
- house of peers — former name of the Japanese House of Councilors.
- house of study — Beth Midrash.
- ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
- immersion foot — an abnormal condition of the foot caused by prolonged exposure to water, characterized by pathological changes in the skin, blood vessels, nerves, and muscles.
- in case of sth — If you do something or have something in case of a particular thing, you do it or have it because that thing might happen or be true.
- 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.
- in one's favor — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- in the forties — between 40 and 49 degrees in temperature
- in/out of step — If people who are walking or dancing are in step, they are moving their feet forward at exactly the same time as each other. If they are out of step, their feet are moving forward at different times.
- infectiousness — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
- inflammatories — Plural form of inflammatory.
- inflectionless — Without inflection.
- inflorescences — Plural form of inflorescence.
- inside forward — one of two attacking players whose usual position is between the center forward and one of the wings.
- instead of sth — If you do one thing instead of another, you do the first thing and not the second thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour.
- interdiffusion — mutual diffusion of fluids
- isle of france — Île-de-France
- 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)
- jefferson city — a city in and the capital of Missouri, in the central part, on the Missouri River.
- jeffersonville — a city in S Indiana, on the Ohio River.
- kettle of fish — an awkward, difficult, or bad situation; muddle; mess: He's managed to get himself into a fine kettle of fish!
- king of beasts — the lion.
- law of cosines — a law stating that the square of a side of a plane triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides minus twice the product of the other sides multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them.
- 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.
- lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
- line of vision — a straight line that connects the fovea centralis of an eye with the point on which the eye focuses.
- long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- lyre-form sofa — a sofa of the early 19th century having a front rail curving upward and outward at either end to form arms and terminating in a downward scroll.