14-letter words containing t, o, a, f
- doctor faustus — (The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus) a play (c1588) by Christopher Marlowe, based on the medieval legend of Faust.
- domestic staff — servants
- double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
- drafting board — drawing board.
- drag your feet — dawdle
- drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
- dwarf palmetto — an apparently stemless palm, Sabal minor, of the southeastern U.S., having stiff, bluish-green leaves, the leafstalks arising from the ground.
- effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
- elevator shaft — passage for a lift
- emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
- enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
- esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
- extraforaneous — (nonce, archaic) outdoor.
- fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
- factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
- factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
- factory worker — manufacturing labourer
- faculty lounge — a staffroom
- fair territory — the area beginning with and including home plate and extending between and including foul lines into which a batter must bat the ball as a prerequisite for a safe hit.
- fall victim to — If you fall victim to something or someone, you suffer as a result of them, or you are killed by them.
- falling action — the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
- fallopian tube — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
- false position — a situation in which a person is forced to act or seems to be acting against his principles or interests
- false positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
- false relation — a harmonic clash that occurs when a note in one part sounds simultaneously with or immediately before or after its chromatically altered (sharpened or flattened) equivalent appearing in another part
- false-positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
- family compact — any influential clique
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- fanaticization — the act or an instance of making people fanatical
- fantastication — the act of making fantastic
- fanum fortunae — ancient name of Fano.
- farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
- fasciculations — Plural form of fasciculation.
- fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
- fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
- fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fast of esther — a Jewish fast day observed on the 13th day of the month of Adar in memory of Esther's fast of three days before petitioning her husband, King Ahasuerus of Persia, to spare the Jews from destruction by Haman.
- fastidiousness — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
- fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
- fault tolerant — fault tolerance
- fault-tolerant — designed to return to a safe condition in the event of a failure or malfunction
- feast of fools — (especially in France) a mock-religious celebration in the Middle Ages, held on or about January 1.
- feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
- feature editor — a newspaper or magazine journalist who commissions and edits feature articles
- federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
- federalization — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
- fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
- female-to-male — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity and gender expression is male.
- femoral artery — the main artery of the thigh, supplying blood to the leg.