14-letter words containing s, f, e
- flowers of tan — a common slime mold, Fuligo septica, of the central and eastern U.S., having large sporophores and yellowish, foamy plasmodia, that during a wet growing season may spread to cover large areas of lawns, woody debris, and growing plants.
- fluid pressure — the pressure exerted by a fluid, directly proportional to the specific gravity at any point and to the height of the fluid above the point.
- foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
- focal distance — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
- folies bergere — a Parisian music hall founded in 1869 and noted for the lavish spectacle and mildly risqué content of its entertainments.
- follow the sea — to make one's living by serving on oceangoing ships
- food processor — an electric appliance with interchangeable blades within a closed container into which food is inserted for slicing, shredding, mincing, chopping, puréeing, or otherwise processing at high speeds.
- fool's-parsley — an Old World fetid, poisonous plant, Aethusa cynapium, resembling parsley.
- foolscap sheet — a sheet of foolscap paper
- foot passenger — sb travelling on a boat without a car
- for god's sake — Some people use expressions such as for God's sake, for heaven's sake, for goodness sake, or for Pete's sake in order to express annoyance or impatience, or to add force to a question or request. The expressions 'for God's sake' and 'for Christ's sake' could cause offence.
- for one's part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
- for the use of — If something is for the use of a particular person or group of people, it is for that person or group to use.
- foraminiferans — Plural form of foraminiferan.
- foraminiferous — Having small openings, or foramina.
- forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
- forehandedness — Quality of being forehanded.
- foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- foreshortening — Fine Arts. to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.
- forest of dean — a royal forest in Gloucestershire, in W England. About 180 sq. mi. (475 sq. km).
- forest reserve — an area of forest set aside and preserved by the government as a wilderness, national park, or the like.
- forest service — a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, created in 1905, that protects and develops the national forests and grasslands.
- forget oneself — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
- forisfamiliate — to free from paternal authority
- formal methods — (mathematics, specification) Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- fort jefferson — a national monument in Dry Tortugas, Fla.: a federal prison 1863–73; now a marine museum.
- forthrightness — The characteristic or quality of being forthright.
- fortuitousness — The quality of being fortuitous.
- fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
- foster brother — a boy brought up with another child of different parents.
- foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
- founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
- four-eyed fish — a small, surface-swimming fish, Anableps anableps, inhabiting shallow, muddy streams of Mexico and Central America, having each eye divided, with the upper half adapted for seeing in air and the lower half for seeing in water.
- fourier series — an infinite series that involves linear combinations of sines and cosines and approximates a given function on a specified domain.
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
- fragmentedness — The quality of being fragmented.
- fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
- framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
- framing square — a steel square usually having on its faces various tables and scales useful to the carpenter.
- francis xavier — Saint Francis (Francisco Javier"the Apostle of the Indies") 1506–52, Spanish Jesuit missionary, especially in India and Japan.
- francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
- 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.
- frasch process — a method of mining sulfur by pumping superheated water down into the deposit, thereby melting it so that it can be pumped to the surface.
- fraternisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of fraternization.
- fraudulentness — (rare) fraudulence.
- fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.
- free as a bird — really free