14-letter words containing s, t, c, l
- eye specialist — ophthalmologist
- fantasticality — The quality of being fantastical.
- fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
- fatalistically — the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.
- felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
- fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
- ferroelectrics — Plural form of ferroelectric.
- filiopietistic — of or relating to reverence of forebears or tradition, especially if carried to excess.
- first classman — a fourth-year student at a U.S. military academy.
- first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
- fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- floating stock — stock not held for permanent investment and hence available for speculation; stock held by brokers and speculators rather than investors.
- floriculturist — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
- 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.
- foolscap sheet — a sheet of foolscap paper
- fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
- frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
- functionalised — to make functional.
- futuristically — of or relating to the future: a futuristic view of the world.
- galactic noise — unidentified radio-frequency radiation originating from beyond the solar system.
- galactic poles — either of the two opposite points on the celestial sphere that are farthest north and south of the Milky Way.
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- galactopoiesis — increasing the secretion of milk.
- galvanoplastic — pertaining to reproduction by electrotypy.
- garlic mustard — a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
- gastrovascular — serving for digestion and circulation, as a cavity.
- geognostically — with reference to a knowledge of the structure of the earth
- geolinguistics — the study of the geographical distribution of languages
- gesticulations — Plural form of gesticulation.
- glans-clitoris — the head of the penis (glans penis) or of the clitoris (glans clitoris)
- golden section — a ratio between two portions of a line, or the two dimensions of a plane figure, in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both: a ratio of approximately 0.618 to 1.000.
- gunstock stile — (in a door) a diminished stile having an oblique transition between the broader and narrower parts.
- hale telescope — the 200-inch (508-cm) reflector at the Palomar Observatory.
- halley's comet — a comet with a period averaging 76 years. In this century it was visible to terrestrial observers just before and after reaching perihelion in 1910 and again in 1986.
- hallucinations — Plural form of hallucination.
- health physics — the branch of physics concerned with the health and safety of people in medical, scientific, and industrial work, esp with protection from the biological effects of ionizing radiation
- health service — system of medical care
- hedonistically — a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
- heliosciophyte — any plant that grows in the shade, but thrives more in the sun
- hell's kitchen — (in New York City) a section of midtown Manhattan, west of Times Square, formerly notorious for its slums and high crime rate.
- hepaticologist — a person who studies hepaticology
- heracliteanism — the philosophy of Heraclitus, maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.
- herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
- histologically — In an histological manner.
- historicalness — The quality of being historical.
- histrionically — of or relating to actors or acting.