14-letter words containing s, i, t
- expropriations — Plural form of expropriation.
- exsanguination — The action of draining a person, animal, or organ of blood.
- extensibleness — The quality of being extensible.
- extension cord — an extra length of cable that can be added to an electric lead
- extension lead — an extra length of cable with a plug and a connector that can be added to an electric lead
- extension ring — a spacer element that can be fixed between the camera body and the lens to increase the distance between film and lens and allow closer focus than would be possible without it
- extensionality — extensional equality
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- extinguishment — The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
- extra-base hit — any hit greater than a single; double, triple, or home run
- extrapolations — Plural form of extrapolation.
- extraprostatic — (anatomy) Outside or independent of the prostate.
- extravagancies — Plural form of extravagancy.
- extravasations — Plural form of extravasation.
- extrinsicality — The quality of being extrinsic.
- eye specialist — ophthalmologist
- 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.
- face the music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
- factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
- fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
- false negative — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test failed to recognize an existing condition or finding. a person who receives this test result.
- false position — a situation in which a person is forced to act or seems to be acting against his principles or interests
- false positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
- 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-negative — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test failed to recognize an existing condition or finding. a person who receives this test result.
- false-positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
- falsifiability — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- fantasticality — The quality of being fantastical.
- fantastication — the act of making fantastic
- farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
- fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
- fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
- 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.
- fastidiousness — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- fatalistically — the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.
- featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
- federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
- felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
- femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
- fencing master — an expert in, and teacher of, the art and sport of fencing
- fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
- ferrimagnetism — (physics) a form of antiferromagnetism in which some magnetization remains below a critical temperature (the Neel temperature).
- ferroelectrics — Plural form of ferroelectric.
- 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.
- fertilizations — Plural form of fertilization.
- festive season — People sometimes refer to the Christmas period as the festive season.