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

  • fishing ground — a part of a body of water where the fishing is usually good.
  • fissionability — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
  • flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
  • flashing point — flash point (def 1).
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • flip one's lid — a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
  • floating stock — stock not held for permanent investment and hence available for speculation; stock held by brokers and speculators rather than investors.
  • floorcoverings — Plural form of floorcovering.
  • flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea
  • flowering moss — pyxie.
  • flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
  • focal distance — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
  • focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
  • food poisoning — an acute gastrointestinal condition characterized by such symptoms as headache, fever, chills, abdominal and muscular pain, nausea, diarrhea, and prostration, caused by foods that are naturally toxic, as poisonous mushrooms, by vegetable foods that are chemically contaminated, as by insecticides, or by bacteria or their toxins, especially of the genus Salmonella.
  • for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
  • forthrightness — The characteristic or quality of being forthright.
  • fortifications — Plural form of fortification.
  • 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.
  • foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
  • fountain grass — a perennial grass, Pennisetum setaceum, of Ethiopia, having bristly spikes, often rose-purple, grown as an ornamental.
  • fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
  • fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
  • 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.
  • fraternisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of fraternization.
  • free expansion — the expansion of a gas into an evacuated space without the transfer of heat or the performance of work.
  • freezing works — a slaughterhouse at which animal carcasses are frozen for export
  • 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.
  • frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
  • fringed orchis — any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip.
  • frolicsomeness — The quality of being frolicsome; playfulness.
  • 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.
  • fulfil oneself — to achieve one's potential or desires
  • full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
  • function shift — a change in the syntactic function of a word, as when the noun mushroom is used as an intransitive verb
  • function space — a linear space, the elements of which are functions.
  • functionalised — to make functional.
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • gibbs function — the thermodynamic function of a system that is equal to its enthalpy minus the product of its absolute temperture and entropy: a decrease in the function is equal to the maximum amount of work available exclusive of that due to pressure times volume change during a reversible, isothermal, isobaric process.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • gratifications — Plural form of gratification.
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