14-letter words containing fa
- morgain le fay — Morgan le Fay.
- 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.
- mustard family — the plant family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate leaves, acrid or pungent juice, clusters of four-petaled flowers, and fruit in the form of a two-parted capsule, and including broccoli, cabbage, candytuft, cauliflower, cress, mustard, radish, sweet alyssum, turnip, and wallflower.
- n-3 fatty acid — Biochemistry. omega-3 fatty acid.
- newfangledness — of a new kind or fashion: newfangled ideas.
- non-fastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
- olfactory bulb — the enlarged terminal part of each olfactory lobe from which the olfactory nerve originates.
- olfactory lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, involved with olfactory functions.
- on the surface — to all appearances
- one false move — You use one false move to introduce the very bad or serious consequences which will result if someone makes a mistake, even a very small one.
- out of fashion — no longer popular
- overfamiliarly — In an overfamiliar way.
- overfastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- oyster farming — the activity of cultivating oysters for food or pearls
- paper fastener — split pin
- parrot-fashion — If you learn or repeat something parrot-fashion, you do it accurately but without really understanding what it means.
- parsley family — the plant family Umbelliferae (or Apiaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate, usually compound leaves, hollow stems, numerous small flowers borne in umbels, and dry, seedlike, often aromatic fruit, and including anise, caraway, carrot, celery, dill, parsley, parsnip, and Queen Anne's lace, as well as poisonous plants such as cowbane and water hemlock.
- parturifacient — inducing or accelerating labor, or childbirth; oxytocic.
- patresfamilias — a plural of paterfamilias.
- penny-farthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
- pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons
- post-breakfast — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- poultry farmer — a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat
- prairie falcon — a North American falcon, Falco mexicanus, grayish-brown above and white barred with brown below.
- prefabrication — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- premanufacture — to manufacture in advance
- press fastener — snap fastener.
- processor farm — (computer, parallel) A parallel processor where tasks are distributed, or "farmed out", by one "farmer" processor to several "worker" processors, and results are sent back to the farmer. This arrangement is suitable for applications which can be partitioned into many separate, independent tasks, the canonical examples being ray tracing and the Mandelbrot set. In order to be efficient, the extra time spent on communications must be small compared to the time spent processing each task.
- public affairs — (used with a plural verb) matters of general interest or concern, especially those dealing with current social or political issues.
- public welfare — state aid to the poor
- quality factor — a property of ionizing radiations that affects their ability to cause biological effects. For weakly ionizing radiations such as gamma rays it has value 1 whilst for alpha rays it is about 20
- quassia family — the plant family Simaroubaceae, characterized by tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs having pinnately compound leaves, clusters of flowers, fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, or fleshy or winged fruit, and a bitter bark used medicinally, and including the ailanthus and quassia.
- quinquefarious — consisting of or divided into five lines, sections, etc
- radium sulfate — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous, radioactive solid, RaSO 4 , used chiefly in radiotherapy.
- rastafarianism — a religious cult, originally of Jamaica, that regards Africa as the Promised Land, to which all true believers will someday return, and the late Haile Selassie I, former emperor of Ethiopia, as the messiah.
- re-familiarize — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- remanufacturer — a company or industry that engages in making an existing product new again
- saint boniface — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
- satisfactional — an act of satisfying; fulfillment; gratification.
- satisfactorily — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
- saturated fats — a type of single-bond animal or vegetable fat, as that found in butter, meat, egg yolks, and coconut or palm oil, that in humans tends to increase cholesterol levels in the blood. Compare saturated (def 3).
- sb will go far — If you say that someone will go far, you mean that they will be very successful in their career.
- scsi interface — SCSI adaptor
- sean o'faolain — Seán [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1900–91, Irish writer and teacher.
- shamefacedness — modest or bashful.
- shoshone falls — waterfall on the Snake River, in S Ida.: c. 200 ft (61 m)
- slide fastener — zipper (def 2).
- so far so good — all is well up to this point