14-letter words containing s, o, l, f
- flagelliferous — bearing a flagellum
- flagitiousness — The state or quality of being flagitious.
- flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
- flaked almonds — small flat pieces of almond used in cooking
- flanders poppy — corn poppy.
- flashing point — flash point (def 1).
- flavorlessness — The state or condition of being flavorless; lack of flavor.
- flavorsomeness — The quality of being flavorsome.
- flemish scroll — a scroll, as on a chair leg, having the form of two intersecting and oppositely curved C-scrolls.
- flesh-coloured — Something that is flesh-coloured is yellowish pink in colour.
- 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.
- flood defences — structures such as dams, artificial channels, etc, built to protect an area from flooding
- floor exercise — a competition in which each entrant performs a routine of acrobatic tumbling feats and balletic movements without any apparatus on a specifically designated floor space, usually 12 meters (39 feet) square and having a matlike covering.
- floor polisher — an electrical appliance used for polishing floors
- floorcoverings — Plural form of floorcovering.
- florence flask — a round bottle having a flat bottom and long neck, for use in laboratories.
- floriculturist — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
- florida strait — a strait between Florida, Cuba, and the Bahamas, connecting the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic.
- florida-strait — a state in the SE United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. 58,560 sq. mi. (151,670 sq. km). Capital: Tallahassee. Abbreviation: FL (for use with zip code), Fla.
- florists' foam — a rigid, deformable, spongelike plastic used in floral arrangements to secure the stems of flowers.
- flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea
- flotsam-jetsam — the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating on the water. Compare jetsam, lagan.
- flowering moss — pyxie.
- 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.
- flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
- foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
- 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.
- folies bergere — a Parisian music hall founded in 1869 and noted for the lavish spectacle and mildly risqué content of its entertainments.
- follow the sea — to make one's living by serving on oceangoing ships
- fool's-parsley — an Old World fetid, poisonous plant, Aethusa cynapium, resembling parsley.
- foolscap sheet — a sheet of foolscap paper
- football pools — If you do the football pools, you take part in a gambling competition in which people try to win money by guessing the results of football matches.
- foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- forget oneself — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
- forisfamiliate — to free from paternal authority
- formal methods — (mathematics, specification) Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- foundationless — Without foundation; unfounded.
- fowl paralysis — Marek's disease.
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- 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.
- free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
- frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
- frolicsomeness — The quality of being frolicsome; playfulness.
- fulfil oneself — to achieve one's potential or desires
- full as a goog — drunk
- full professor — professor (def 1).