14-letter words containing a, f, r, o, c
- certifications — Plural form of certification.
- chapel of rest — a room in an undertaker's place of business where bodies are laid out in their coffins to be viewed before the funeral
- circumfixation — a prefix and a suffix attached to a root or stem, as the a and -ing in a-going.
- clarifications — Plural form of clarification.
- classificatory — the act of classifying.
- coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
- coach-and-four — a coach together with the four horses by which it is drawn.
- coff's harbour — a seaport in E Australia.
- comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
- comfortability — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
- compass rafter — a rafter cut to a curve on one or both edges.
- confederations — Plural form of confederation.
- configuraholic — (jargon) A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
- configurations — Plural form of configuration.
- confirmability — the quality of being confirmable
- confirmational — providing proof or supporting evidence
- conflagrations — Plural form of conflagration.
- conformability — Conformableness.
- conformational — manner of formation; structure; form, as of a physical entity.
- confrontations — Plural form of confrontation.
- copper sulfate — a blue, crystalline substance, CuSO4·5H2O, that effloresces and turns white when heated; blue vitriol: used in making pigments, germicides, batteries, etc.
- copperfastened — Simple past tense and past participle of copperfasten.
- corneal reflex — Physiology. the closing of the eyelids induced by touching the cornea lightly.
- council of war — A council of war is a meeting that is held in order to decide how a particular threat or emergency should be dealt with.
- counterfactual — expressing what has not happened but could, would, or might under differing conditions
- crash for cash — denoting a type of insurance fraud in which people bring about road accidents to ensure that a substantial claim is made
- crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
- cross software — Software developed on one kind of computer for use on another (usually because the other computer does not have itself adequate facilities for software development).
- cross-platform — (software, hardware) A term that describes a language, software application or hardware device that works on more than one system platform (e.g. Unix, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh). E.g. Netscape Navigator, Java.
- cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
- culture factor — culture as a causative agent, especially in contrast to biological factors.
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- date of record — the final date a registered stockholder of a corporation has the right to receive a dividend or other benefit.
- denitrificator — an apparatus which is used in denitrification, particularly in sulphuric acid works
- diffractometer — an instrument that is used to study atomic crystal structure by measuring the angles at which x-rays, neutrons, or electrons are diffracted by matter.
- diffractometry — The elucidation of the structures of crystalline materials by the use of X-ray diffraction.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- doctor faustus — (The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus) a play (c1588) by Christopher Marlowe, based on the medieval legend of Faust.
- drawing office — an office where drawings are made
- drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
- enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
- ergocalciferol — Constituent of vitamin D1 and vitamin D2.
- esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
- exchange force — a force between two elementary particles resulting from the exchange of a virtual particle
- facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
- factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
- factory worker — manufacturing labourer
- false scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
- 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