14-letter words containing t, i, f, o, r
- inflammatories — Plural form of inflammatory.
- inflation rate — economy: price increase
- infratentorial — (anatomy) refers to a location below the tentorium cerebelli.
- interdiffusion — mutual diffusion of fluids
- interferometer — Optics. a device that separates a beam of light into two ray beams, usually by means of reflection, and that brings the rays together to produce interference, used to measure wavelength, index of refraction, and astronomical distances.
- interferometry — Optics. a device that separates a beam of light into two ray beams, usually by means of reflection, and that brings the rays together to produce interference, used to measure wavelength, index of refraction, and astronomical distances.
- intrafallopian — occurring within either of the Fallopian tubes
- isthmus of kra — an isthmus of SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand: the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula. Width: about 56 km (35 miles)
- jefferson city — a city in and the capital of Missouri, in the central part, on the Missouri River.
- karstification — the process of turning into karst
- line of credit — credit line (def 2).
- magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
- main door flat — a flat in a tenement that can be accessed directly from outside rather than one which can only be accessed via a communal stairwell
- maxis software — The developers of SimCity and SimCity 2000. Address: 2 Theatre Square, Suite 230, Orinda, CA 94563-3346, USA. Telephone: +1 (800) 33-MAXIS.
- microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
- microfortnight — One millionth of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measurement; 1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel; the mass unit of the system is taken to be a firkin of water). The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realises that the current value is bogus. This time is specified in microfortnights! Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnight have also been reported.
- microsoft mail — (messaging, tool) (MS Mail) A Microsoft Windows electronic mail program.
- microsoft word — (text, tool, product) A popular word processor, part of the Microsoft Office suite. The original Word (versions 1.0 to 4.?/5.0?) was originally text-based (non-GUI) and ran under MS-DOS. Then Microsoft released Word for Windows 1.0 and 2.0. Later they produced new versions for each OS, both numbered 6.0.
- miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
- misinformation — to give false or misleading information to.
- misinformative — to give false or misleading information to.
- mortifications — Plural form of mortification.
- mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- multifactorial — having or stemming from a number of different causes or influences: Some medical researchers regard cancer as a multifactorial disease.
- multifariously — In a multifarious manner.
- myofibroblasts — Plural form of myofibroblast.
- nanofiltration — Pressure-driven filtration through a membrane that removes particles of about two nanometres or larger.
- national front — (in Britain) a small political party of the right with racist and other extremist policies
- neurofibromata — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
- nine-to-fivers — of, relating to, or during the workday, especially the hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. when offices are characteristically open for business: the nine-to-five grind.
- nitrofurantoin — an antimicrobial substance, C 8 H 6 N 4 O 5 , used for the treatment of urinary tract infections.
- nitrogen fixer — any of various microorganisms in the soil involved in the process of nitrogen fixation.
- non-conformist — a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
- non-conformity — failure or refusal to conform, as with established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
- non-reflection — the act of reflecting, as in casting back a light or heat, mirroring, or giving back or showing an image; the state of being reflected in this way.
- non-reflective — not capable of or not designed to reflect light
- non-stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
- non-uniformity — the state or quality of being uniform; overall sameness, homogeneity, or regularity: uniformity of style.
- nonconformists — a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
- nondiffractive — Not diffractive.
- nonfinite verb — a verb form that does not indicate person or number; in English, the infinitive and participles.
- nonforfeitable — a fine; penalty.
- nonformalistic — Not formalistic.
- noninformation — an absence or lack of information
- noninterfering — Not interfering.
- not forgetting — You say not forgetting a particular thing or person when you want to include them in something that you have already talked about.
- not-for-profit — nonprofit.
- nothing for it — no choice; no other course
- of a certainty — without a doubt; certainly
- of one's birth — The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born.