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

  • certifications — Plural form of certification.
  • channel surfer — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
  • chapel of rest — a room in an undertaker's place of business where bodies are laid out in their coffins to be viewed before the funeral
  • christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
  • circumferences — Plural form of circumference.
  • clerk of works — an employee who supervises building work in progress or the upkeep of existing buildings
  • cliffside park — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • clouded sulfur — a sulfur butterfly, Colias philodice, having yellow wings with black edges and larvae that feed on clover and other legumes.
  • coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
  • coffee grounds — the used ground beans that remain in a pot or coffee-maker
  • coffee service — a set of china consisting of coffee cups and saucers, a pot, milk jug, and sugar bowl
  • come off worst — to enjoy the least benefit from an issue or be defeated in it
  • compass rafter — a rafter cut to a curve on one or both edges.
  • confederations — Plural form of confederation.
  • coniferophytes — Plural form of coniferophyte.
  • copper sulfate — a blue, crystalline substance, CuSO4·5H2O, that effloresces and turns white when heated; blue vitriol: used in making pigments, germicides, batteries, etc.
  • copperfastened — Simple past tense and past participle of copperfasten.
  • coriolis force — a fictitious force used to explain a deflection in the path of a body moving in latitude relative to the earth when observed from the earth. The deflection (Coriolis effect) is due to the earth's rotation and is to the east when the motion is towards a pole
  • counterfeiters — Plural form of counterfeiter.
  • crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
  • cross software — Software developed on one kind of computer for use on another (usually because the other computer does not have itself adequate facilities for software development).
  • crossreference — Alternative form of cross-reference.
  • crystal defect — defect (def 3).
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • dead sea fruit — something that appears to be beautiful or full of promise but is in reality nothing but illusion and disappointment.
  • defence forces — the armed services of a country
  • defenestrating — Present participle of defenestrate.
  • defenestration — the act of throwing someone out of a window
  • deferred share — a share of stock on which a dividend is not paid until some fixed date or until some conditional event.
  • defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
  • deputy sheriff — a person that is authorized to act as sheriff in certain circumstances
  • diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
  • diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
  • diffeomorphism — a differentiable homeomorphism.
  • differentiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of differentiate.
  • 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.
  • disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
  • disfigurements — Plural form of disfigurement.
  • disforestation — Archaic form of deforestation.
  • disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
  • disregardfully — In a disregardful manner; negligently; heedlessly.
  • 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.
  • driftless area — a tract of land that was once surrounded but never covered by a continental glacier, consequently having no glacial deposits.
  • duarte fuentes — José Napoleón [haw-se nah-paw-le-awn] /hɔˈsɛ nɑ pɔ lɛˈɔn/ (Show IPA), 1926–90, Salvadoran political leader: president 1980–82, 1984–89.
  • duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
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