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14-letter words containing s, t, e, n, o, r

  • fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
  • federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
  • fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
  • 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.
  • 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 offender — a person convicted of an offense of law for the first time.
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • 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.
  • foot passenger — sb travelling on a boat without a car
  • for one's part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
  • for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
  • foreshortening — Fine Arts. to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.
  • forest of dean — a royal forest in Gloucestershire, in W England. About 180 sq. mi. (475 sq. km).
  • forget oneself — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
  • fort jefferson — a national monument in Dry Tortugas, Fla.: a federal prison 1863–73; now a marine museum.
  • forthrightness — The characteristic or quality of being forthright.
  • fortuitousness — The quality of being fortuitous.
  • fortysomething — A person whose age is between forty and forty-nine years, inclusive; someone in his or her forties.
  • founder's type — special type cast by a type founder for hand composition, as opposed to type cast in a mechanical composing machine
  • fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
  • fragmentations — Plural form of fragmentation.
  • 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.
  • fraternisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of fraternization.
  • frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
  • front of house — restaurant
  • front side bus — (hardware)   (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
  • frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
  • frontierswomen — Plural form of frontierswoman.
  • frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • garrison state — a state in which military matters dominate economic and political life.
  • gastroduodenal — of or relating to the stomach and the duodenum
  • gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • generalisation — The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
  • gerontocracies — Plural form of gerontocracy.
  • ghost prisoner — a prisoner, esp one held in US military captivity, whose detention is not publicly acknowledged
  • giant tortoise — any of several large tortoises of the genus Geochelone, of the Galápagos Islands and islands near Madagascar: some are endangered.
  • go gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
  • golden hamster — a small light-colored hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, native to Asia Minor and familiar as a laboratory animal and pet.
  • grangerisation — The act of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
  • gratuitousness — The state or characteristic of being gratuitous.
  • great-grandson — a grandson of one's son or daughter.
  • greisenization — the process whereby granite is converted to greisen
  • groundsel tree — a composite shrub, Baccharis halimifolia, having dull, gray-green leaves and fruit with tufts of long, white hair, growing in salt marshes of eastern North America.
  • grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
  • guest of honor — a person in whose honor a dinner, party, etc., is given.
  • hair extension — attached length of hair
  • half-note rest — a pause of half a semibreve
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