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14-letter words containing y, n, e

  • evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
  • exacerbatingly — In an exacerbating way; so as to aggravate or make worse.
  • exasperatingly — In an exasperating manner; frustratingly.
  • exceptionality — (uncountable) The quality of being exceptional.
  • exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
  • excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
  • exhilaratingly — In a way that exhilarates.
  • experientially — In terms of experience.
  • experimentally — In the manner of an experiment.
  • extemporaneity — the quality of being extemporaneous
  • extensionality — extensional equality
  • extortionately — In an extortionate manner; in a manner that greatly exceeds what is reasonable or moderate.
  • extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
  • extraplanetary — Originating, or located outside of a planet.
  • extrinsicality — The quality of being extrinsic.
  • eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
  • eyre peninsula — a peninsula of South Australia, between the Great Australian Bight and Spencer Gulf
  • fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
  • faculty lounge — a staffroom
  • family romance — a type of fantasy in which a person maintains that he or she is not the child of his or her real parents but of parents of a higher social class
  • family viewing — television programmes that are suitable for both adults and children
  • fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
  • farey sequence — the increasing sequence of fractions in which numerator and denominator have no common divisor other than one and in which the denominator is less than or equal to a given positive integer p. For p = 4, the Farey sequence of order 4 is 0/1, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 1/1.
  • feeblemindedly — Alt form feeble-mindedly.
  • feeding frenzy — Slang. a ruthless attack on or exploitation of someone especially by the media.
  • feel one's way — to move or advance cautiously, by or as if by groping
  • feminine rhyme — a rhyme either of two syllables of which the second is unstressed (double rhyme) as in motion, notion, or of three syllables of which the second and third are unstressed (triple rhyme) as in fortunate, importunate.
  • feng yu-hsiang — ("Christian General") 1880–1948, Chinese general.
  • ferry crossing — the act or instance of travelling across the sea by ferry
  • ferry terminal — docking area for passenger boats
  • financial year — law: annual accounting period
  • find one's way — If you find your way somewhere, you successfully get there by choosing the right way to go.
  • five-year plan — any plan for national economic or industrial development specifying goals to be reached within a period of five years, especially as undertaken by the Soviet Union and China.
  • flanders poppy — corn poppy.
  • flying machine — a vehicle that sustains itself in and propels itself through the air; an airplane, helicopter, glider, or the like.
  • flying officer — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a pilot officer but junior to a flight lieutenant in the British and certain other air forces
  • flying trapeze — a trapeze used in performing gymnastic displays high above the ground
  • fonthill abbey — a ruined Gothic Revival mansion in Wiltshire: rebuilt (1790–1810) for William Beckford by James Wyatt; the main tower collapsed in 1800 and, after rebuilding, again in 1827
  • forbidden city — a walled section of Peking, built in the 15th century, containing the imperial palace and other buildings of the imperial government of China.
  • forcible entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
  • foreign policy — a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.
  • 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
  • fraternity pin — a pin worn on clothing that indicates membership in a fraternity
  • freewheelingly — In a freewheeling manner; without constraint.
  • french academy — an association of 40 scholars and men and women of letters, established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu and devoted chiefly to preserving the purity of the French language and establishing standards of proper usage.
  • frequency band — band2 (def 9).
  • frequent flyer — a person who regularly makes air journeys
  • friction layer — the atmospheric layer extending up to about 600 m, in which the aerodynamic effects of surface friction are appreciable
  • frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
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