14-letter words containing e
- fashion design — the activity of designing fashionable clothes
- fashion editor — an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
- fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers
- fashionmongers — Plural form of fashionmonger.
- 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.
- fatherlessness — The state or quality of being fatherless.
- 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
- faute de mieux — for lack of anything better
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- feast of fools — (especially in France) a mock-religious celebration in the Middle Ages, held on or about January 1.
- feather duster — a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.
- feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
- feather-legged — cowardly.
- feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.
- featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
- featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
- featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
- feature editor — a newspaper or magazine journalist who commissions and edits feature articles
- feature writer — a newspaper or magazine journalist who writes feature articles
- feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
- federalisation — Alternative spelling of federalization.
- federalization — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
- feeblemindedly — Alt form feeble-mindedly.
- feed-in tariff — a payment above the market rate paid to a small-scale producer of renewable energy by a large energy provider
- feeding bottle — infant's feeding receptacle
- feeding frenzy — Slang. a ruthless attack on or exploitation of someone especially by the media.
- feeding ground — The feeding ground of a group of animals or birds, is the place where they find food and eat.
- feel compelled — If you feel compelled to do something, you feel that you must do it, because it is the right thing to do.
- feel one's way — to move or advance cautiously, by or as if by groping
- feel the pinch — If a person or company is feeling the pinch, they do not have as much money as they used to, and so they cannot buy the things they would like to buy.
- felicitousness — The state or condition of being felicitous.
- fellow citizen — law: national of same country
- fellow feeling — sympathetic feeling; sympathy: to have fellow feeling for the unfortunate.
- fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
- fellow student — sb studying at same institution
- fellow-feeling — sympathetic feeling; sympathy: to have fellow feeling for the unfortunate.
- fellowshipping — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
- female-to-male — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity and gender expression is male.
- 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.
- femoral artery — the main artery of the thigh, supplying blood to the leg.
- femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
- fencing master — an expert in, and teacher of, the art and sport of fencing
- fencing school — an academy or school where fencing was taught by fencing masters
- feng yu-hsiang — ("Christian General") 1880–1948, Chinese general.
- fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
- ferrimagnetism — (physics) a form of antiferromagnetism in which some magnetization remains below a critical temperature (the Neel temperature).