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14-letter words containing s, r, f, l

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • fluid pressure — the pressure exerted by a fluid, directly proportional to the specific gravity at any point and to the height of the fluid above the point.
  • flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
  • folies bergere — a Parisian music hall founded in 1869 and noted for the lavish spectacle and mildly risqué content of its entertainments.
  • fool's-parsley — an Old World fetid, poisonous plant, Aethusa cynapium, resembling parsley.
  • 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.
  • fowl paralysis — Marek's disease.
  • fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
  • framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
  • 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.
  • fraudulentness — (rare) fraudulence.
  • free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
  • freshwater eel — any of a family (Anguillidae) of eels that live in streams, lakes, etc. and migrate to the sea to spawn
  • friar's balsam — a compound containing benzoin, mixed with hot water, and used as an inhalant to relieve colds and sore throats
  • frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
  • friendlessness — The state or condition of being friendless; lack of friends.
  • frolicsomeness — The quality of being frolicsome; playfulness.
  • full professor — professor (def 1).
  • fuller's earth — an absorbent clay, used especially for removing grease from fabrics, in fulling cloth, as a filter, and as a dusting powder.
  • futurelessness — the state or quality of being futureless
  • futuristically — of or relating to the future: a futuristic view of the world.
  • gallery forest — a narrow strip of woods or forest along the banks of a watercourse flowing through open country.
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
  • golfer's elbow — a painful inflammation of the muscles on the inside of the forearm caused by exertion in playing golf
  • half seas over — of, relating to, or adapted for use at sea.
  • half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
  • half-note rest — a pause of half a semibreve
  • half-seas over — drunk; intoxicated; inebriated.
  • half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
  • half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
  • hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
  • house of lords — the nonelective, upper house of the British Parliament, comprising the lords spiritual and lords temporal.
  • hydrosulfurous — hyposulfurous.
  • ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
  • inflammatories — Plural form of inflammatory.
  • inflorescences — Plural form of inflorescence.
  • infralapsarian — a person who believes in infralapsarianism.
  • isle of france — Île-de-France
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