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14-letter words containing s, f, e, r

  • french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • fresh out (of) — having just sold or used up the last one or part (of)
  • freshers' week — a week at the beginning of a university year, usually with a programme of events intended to welcome new first-year students
  • freshness date — the last date, usually specified on the label or packaging, that a food, as bread, is considered fresh, although it may be sold, ordinarily at reduced prices, or eaten after that date.
  • freshwater eel — any of a family (Anguillidae) of eels that live in streams, lakes, etc. and migrate to the sea to spawn
  • frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
  • friday prayers — the congregational prayers observed by Muslims every Friday
  • friendiversary — the yearly recurrence of the date that two or more people first became friends: Next Thursday is our third friendiversary!
  • friendlessness — The state or condition of being friendless; lack of friends.
  • fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
  • frolicsomeness — The quality of being frolicsome; playfulness.
  • from the first — From the first means ever since something started.
  • front of house — restaurant
  • front side bus — (hardware)   (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
  • frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
  • frontierswomen — Plural form of frontierswoman.
  • frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
  • full professor — professor (def 1).
  • fuller's earth — an absorbent clay, used especially for removing grease from fabrics, in fulling cloth, as a filter, and as a dusting powder.
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • futurelessness — the state or quality of being futureless
  • futures market — a market in which futures contracts in commodities are traded.
  • 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 rid of sth — When you get rid of something that you do not want or do not like, you take action so that you no longer have it or suffer from it.
  • 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
  • grief-stricken — overwhelmed by grief; deeply afflicted or sorrowful.
  • 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.
  • half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
  • 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.
  • harper's ferry — a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.
  • heart of stone — lack of compassion
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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 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
  • indifferences' — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
  • indifferentism — systematic indifference.
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