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14-letter words containing s, i, n, f, o

  • disinfestation — The act or process of disinfesting.
  • disinformation — false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
  • disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
  • electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
  • f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
  • fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
  • facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
  • factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
  • faeroe islands — group of Danish islands in the N Atlantic, between Iceland & the Shetland Islands: 540 sq mi (1,399 sq km); pop. 44,000
  • fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
  • false position — a situation in which a person is forced to act or seems to be acting against his principles or interests
  • false relation — a harmonic clash that occurs when a note in one part sounds simultaneously with or immediately before or after its chromatically altered (sharpened or flattened) equivalent appearing in another part
  • false scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
  • fantastication — the act of making fantastic
  • farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
  • fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
  • fashion design — the activity of designing fashionable clothes
  • fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
  • fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers
  • fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
  • fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • fashionmongers — Plural form of fashionmonger.
  • fashionmonging — the act of analysing, following or advising others on fashion
  • fastidiousness — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
  • federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
  • felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
  • fellowshipping — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
  • fencing school — an academy or school where fencing was taught by fencing masters
  • ferromagnesian — (of minerals and rocks) containing iron and magnesium.
  • ferromagnetism — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
  • ferry crossing — the act or instance of travelling across the sea by ferry
  • fertilizations — Plural form of fertilization.
  • festive season — People sometimes refer to the Christmas period as the festive season.
  • fetal position — a bodily posture resembling that of the fetus in the uterus, in which the body is curled with head and limbs drawn in, sometimes assumed in states of fear or emotional withdrawal.
  • fictitiousness — The state of being fictitious.
  • fidei defensor — Defender of the Faith: one of the titles of English sovereigns.
  • field emission — the removal of electrons from a metallic conductor by a strong electric field.
  • fifth position — a position similar to the first position, but with one foot in front, the heel and toe of the front foot adjacent to the toe and heel of the back foot.
  • fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • file extension — filename extension
  • final solution — the Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich.
  • find one's way — If you find your way somewhere, you successfully get there by choosing the right way to go.
  • fineness ratio — Aeronautics. the ratio of the length of a streamlined body, as a rocket or airplane hull, to its maximum diameter.
  • finished goods — Finished goods are goods that have completed the manufacturing process, but have not yet been sold.
  • finsteraarhorn — a mountain in S central Switzerland: highest peak of the Bernese Alps, 14,026 feet (4275 meters).
  • first division — the half of a league comprising the teams having the best records at a particular time (opposed to second division).
  • first offender — a person convicted of an offense of law for the first time.
  • first position — a position of the feet in which the heels are back to back and the toes point out to the sides.
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