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14-letter words containing s, i, n, o, r, e

  • 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
  • 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
  • fashionmongers — Plural form of fashionmonger.
  • federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
  • 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.
  • fidei defensor — Defender of the Faith: one of the titles of English sovereigns.
  • fineness ratio — Aeronautics. the ratio of the length of a streamlined body, as a rocket or airplane hull, to its maximum diameter.
  • finsteraarhorn — a mountain in S central Switzerland: highest peak of the Bernese Alps, 14,026 feet (4275 meters).
  • first offender — a person convicted of an offense of law for the first time.
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • floorcoverings — Plural form of floorcovering.
  • flowering moss — pyxie.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
  • garrison state — a state in which military matters dominate economic and political life.
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • generalisation — The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
  • generalissimos — Plural form of generalissimo.
  • gerontocracies — Plural form of gerontocracy.
  • ghost prisoner — a prisoner, esp one held in US military captivity, whose detention is not publicly acknowledged
  • giant tortoise — any of several large tortoises of the genus Geochelone, of the Galápagos Islands and islands near Madagascar: some are endangered.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • grade crossing — an intersection of a railroad track and another track, a road, etc., at the same level.
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