14-letter words containing s, f, e
- biceps femoris — See under biceps.
- blanket finish — a finish so close that a blanket would cover all the contestants involved
- blow off steam — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- blue-arsed fly — a blowfly; bluebottle
- bosworth field — the site, two miles south of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, of the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (August 1485). Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned king as Henry VII
- bracket fungus — any saprotroph or parasitic fungus of the basidiomycetous family Polyporaceae, growing as a shelflike mass (bracket) from tree trunks and producing spores in vertical tubes in the bracket
- bradford score — a measure of the amount of time during which an employee is absent from work, based on assigning a number of points according to the frequency and length of absences
- brandy snifter — snifter (def 1).
- break of serve — the act or instance of breaking an opponent's service
- breakfast club — a service that provides a breakfast for children who arrive early at school
- breakfast food — any prepared cereal for breakfast
- breakfast room — a room set aside for serving and eating breakfast, esp in a hotel or guesthouse
- breakfast show — a radio or television broadcast that airs around breakfast time
- breakfast time — Breakfast time is the period of the morning when most people have their breakfast.
- breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
- burschenschaft — a students' fraternity, originally one concerned with Christian ideals, patriotism, etc
- butterfly bush — buddleia
- butterfly fish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
- candlesnuffers — Plural form of candlesnuffer.
- careers office — a room or building in which vocational advice can be obtained from a Careers Officer and which often also has books, leaflets, etc on careers
- carousel fraud — the practice of importing goods from a country where they are not subject to VAT, selling them with VAT added, then deliberately not paying the VAT to the government
- case framework — A set of products and conventions that allow CASE tools to be integrated into a coherent environment.
- center of mass — the point in a body or system of bodies at which the entire mass may be assumed to be concentrated
- centre of mass — the point at which the mass of a system could be concentrated without affecting the behaviour of the system under the action of external linear forces
- 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 ease — a church built to accommodate those living at a distance from the parish church
- 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
- chest of viols — a set of viols of different sizes, usually six in number, used in consorts
- chief of staff — The Chiefs of Staff are the most senior officers in each service of the armed forces.
- chief of state — the titular head of a nation, as a president or king.
- chippewa falls — a city in W Wisconsin.
- christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
- circumferences — Plural form of circumference.
- cleft sentence — a sentence in which a simpler sentence is paraphrased by being divided into two parts, each with its own verb, in order to emphasize certain information, especially a sentence beginning with expletive it and a form of be followed by the information being emphasized, as It was a mushroom that Alice ate instead of Alice ate a mushroom.
- 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
- code of ethics — an agreement on ethical standards for a profession or business
- 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
- coffee-klatsch — to gather for a coffee klatsch.
- come in useful — If an object or skill comes in useful, it can help you achieve something in a particular situation.
- come off worst — to enjoy the least benefit from an issue or be defeated in it
- commission fee — a fee paid to auctioneers, salespeople, etc, for their services
- compass rafter — a rafter cut to a curve on one or both edges.
- confederations — Plural form of confederation.
- confessionally — in a confessional manner
- coniferophytes — Plural form of coniferophyte.