14-letter words containing a, f, r, c
- nondiffractive — Not diffractive.
- nonformalistic — Not formalistic.
- nonperformance — failure or neglect to perform.
- norfolk jacket — a loosely belted single-breasted jacket, with box pleats in front and back.
- nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
- nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
- of a certainty — without a doubt; certainly
- off the charts — a sheet exhibiting information in tabular form.
- office manager — employee in charge of office personnel
- old franconian — the Franconian language before 1100; Frankish.
- 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
- oral-formulaic — noting or pertaining to poetry of an earlier spoken tradition, as the Iliad, that uses formulas to aid its continued expression.
- organ of corti — Anatomy, Zoology. a structure in the cochlea of a mammal, consisting of hair cells that serve as receptors for auditory stimuli.
- outperformance — The act or state of outperforming.
- pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
- packet sniffer — (networking, tool) A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
- pan-africanism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the African nations.
- parole officer — an official who supervises a prisoner who is on parole
- part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
- parturifacient — inducing or accelerating labor, or childbirth; oxytocic.
- party official — an official of a political party
- pasteur effect — the inhibiting of fermentation by oxygen.
- peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
- peacock-flower — royal poinciana.
- pelican-flower — a woody vine, Aristolochia grandiflora, of the West Indies, having heart-shaped leaves and purple-spotted, purple-veined flowers from 18 to 24 inches (46 to 61 cm) wide with a long, taillike structure at the tip of the corolla.
- perfect square — a rational number that is equal to the square of another rational number.
- picture-framer — a person or company whose job is to frame photographs, paintings etc
- pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons
- platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- pleasure craft — A pleasure craft is the same as a pleasure boat.
- potts-fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
- 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
- preperformance — occurring before a performance
- prettification — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
- preunification — of the period before unification
- pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
- pride of place — the highest or most outstanding position; first place.
- primacy effect — the process whereby the first few items on a list are learnt more rapidly than the middle items
- 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
- quadratic form — a polynomial all of whose terms are of degree 2 in two or more variables, as 5 x 2 − 2 xy + 3 y 2 .
- 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
- radiofrequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
- rafraichissoir — a table of the 18th century having a cooler for bottles and shelves for plates.
- ratchet effect — intermittent growth, increase, expansion, or the like: the ratchet effect of defense expenditures.