14-letter words containing t, a, f, r
- banker's draft — A banker's draft is the same as a bank draft.
- barium sulfate — an odorless, tasteless, white powder, BaSO4, insoluble in water: it is used as a paint pigment, as a filler for paper, textiles , etc., and as an opaque substance that is ingested to aid in making diagnostic X-rays of the stomach and intestine
- barrel shifter — (hardware) A hardware device that can shift or rotate a data word by any number of bits in a single operation. It is implemented like a multiplexor, each output can be connected to any input depending on the shift distance.
- beaufort scale — an international scale of wind velocities ranging for practical purposes from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane force). In the US an extension of the scale, from 13 to 17 for winds over 64 knots, is used
- betray oneself — to reveal one's true character, intentions, etc
- binding rafter — a timber for supporting rafters between their extremities, as a purlin.
- bioinformatics — the branch of information science concerned with large databases of biochemical or pharmaceutical information
- blanket-flower — any composite plant of the genus Gaillardia, having showy heads of yellow or red flowers.
- board of trade — (in the United Kingdom) a ministry within the Department of Trade: responsible for the supervision of commerce and the promotion of export trade
- bornyl formate — a liquid, C 11 H 18 O 2 , having a piny odor, used chiefly as a scent in the manufacture of soaps and disinfectants.
- bracket fungus — any saprotroph or parasitic fungus of the basidiomycetous family Polyporaceae, growing as a shelflike mass (bracket) from tree trunks and producing spores in vertical tubes in the bracket
- bradley effect — the distortion of opinion polls caused by the reluctance of respondents to admit to a preference that is regarded as socially unacceptable
- brandy snifter — snifter (def 1).
- brass farthing — something of little or no value
- breakfast club — a service that provides a breakfast for children who arrive early at school
- breakfast food — any prepared cereal for breakfast
- breakfast room — a room set aside for serving and eating breakfast, esp in a hotel or guesthouse
- breakfast show — a radio or television broadcast that airs around breakfast time
- breakfast time — Breakfast time is the period of the morning when most people have their breakfast.
- breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
- burschenschaft — a students' fraternity, originally one concerned with Christian ideals, patriotism, etc
- cafeteria plan — a fringe-benefit plan under which employees may choose from among various benefits those that best fit their needs, up to a specified dollar value.
- call of nature — Some people talk about a call of nature when referring politely to the need to go to the toilet.
- calorification — the production of heat
- caltrop family — the plant family Zygophyllaceae, typified by tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having pinnate leaves, solitary or paired regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the creosote bush, lignum vitae, and puncture vine.
- cape trafalgar — a cape on the SW coast of Spain, south of Cádiz: scene of the decisive naval battle (1805) in which the French and Spanish fleets were defeated by the British under Nelson, who was mortally wounded
- center forward — A center forward in a team sport such as soccer or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
- center of mass — the point in a body or system of bodies at which the entire mass may be assumed to be concentrated
- central office — (communications) The place where telephone companies terminate customer lines and locate switching equipment to interconnect those lines with other networks.
- centre of mass — the point at which the mass of a system could be concentrated without affecting the behaviour of the system under the action of external linear forces
- centre-forward — A centre-forward in a team sport such as football or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
- centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
- centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
- certifications — Plural form of certification.
- certified mail — If you send a letter or package by certified mail, you send it using a mail service which gives you an official record of the fact that it has been mailed and delivered.
- chapel of rest — a room in an undertaker's place of business where bodies are laid out in their coffins to be viewed before the funeral
- charter flight — a flight booked by a holiday company to transport their customers
- christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
- circumfixation — a prefix and a suffix attached to a root or stem, as the a and -ing in a-going.
- clarifications — Plural form of clarification.
- classificatory — the act of classifying.
- clean up after — If you clean up after someone, you clean or tidy a place that they have made dirty or untidy.
- coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
- comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
- comfortability — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
- compass rafter — a rafter cut to a curve on one or both edges.
- confederations — Plural form of confederation.
- configurations — Plural form of configuration.
- confirmability — the quality of being confirmable
- confirmational — providing proof or supporting evidence