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

  • disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
  • do one's stuff — If you do your stuff, you perform an activity in the way that people expect.
  • dry rot fungus — a fungus, Merulius lacrymans, that causes a common type of dry rot.
  • effortlessness — The state of being effortless; facility.
  • 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.
  • every so often — now and again
  • extraforaneous — (nonce, archaic) outdoor.
  • 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.
  • factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
  • 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
  • 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 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.
  • fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
  • federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
  • felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
  • fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
  • fellow student — sb studying at same institution
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • floating stock — stock not held for permanent investment and hence available for speculation; stock held by brokers and speculators rather than investors.
  • flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • foot passenger — sb travelling on a boat without a car
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