14-letter words containing t, i, f, o
- inflectionless — Without inflection.
- infratentorial — (anatomy) refers to a location below the tentorium cerebelli.
- instead of sth — If you do one thing instead of another, you do the first thing and not the second thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour.
- 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
- isle of thanet — an island in SE England, in NE Kent, separated from the mainland by two branches of the River Stour: scene of many Norse invasions. Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
- 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)
- it's not as if — You use 'It's not as if' to introduce a statement which, if it were true, might explain something puzzling, although in fact it is not true.
- jefferson city — a city in and the capital of Missouri, in the central part, on the Missouri River.
- justifications — Plural form of justification.
- karstification — the process of turning into karst
- kettle of fish — an awkward, difficult, or bad situation; muddle; mess: He's managed to get himself into a fine kettle of fish!
- king of beasts — the lion.
- lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
- law of nations — international law.
- lend itself to — to be adapted to, useful for, or open to
- lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
- line of attack — a line of attack to a problem or situation is how you approach it
- line of battle — a line formed by troops or ships for delivering or receiving an attack.
- line of credit — credit line (def 2).
- line of flight — the flight path of something travelling from one place to another
- magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
- magnifications — Plural form of magnification.
- 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
- make little of — small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
- malfunctioning — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
- man of destiny — epithet of Napoleon I.
- manifestations — An event, action, or object that clearly shows or embodies something, esp. a theory or an abstract idea.
- 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.
- metafictionist — A writer of metafiction.
- 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.
- mid wicket off — mid off.
- 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.
- moment of sail — the product of a given area of sail, taken as the maximum safe area, and the vertical distance from the center of effort and the center of lateral resistance.
- moonlight flit — a hurried departure at night, esp from rented accommodation to avoid payment of rent owed
- mortifications — Plural form of mortification.
- mosquito fleet — a group or fleet of PT boats or other small, armed boats.
- mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- multi-function — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- 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.