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15-letter words containing a, f, t, l, o

  • court of claims — (in the US) a court that hears claims against the federal government
  • crossfunctional — Spanning several functions.
  • crystalliferous — producing or containing crystals
  • day of the lord — Also called Day of Yahweh. (in Old Testament eschatology) a day of final judgment. Amos 5:18–21; Ezek. 30.
  • deadman's float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
  • dean of faculty — the president of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland
  • decalcification — the act or process of decalcifying.
  • deformalization — to make less formal; reduce the strictness, preciseness, etc., of.
  • democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
  • demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
  • desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
  • dinoflagellates — Plural form of dinoflagellate.
  • disinflationary — (economics) Exhibiting or causing reduced inflation.
  • draft-mule work — drudgery
  • dysfunctionally — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • electrification — The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
  • elephant's-foot — a monocotyledonous plant, Testudinaria elephantipes, of southern Africa, with a very large starchy tuberous stem, covered in corky scales: family Dioscoreaceae
  • exemplification — The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
  • factor analysis — the use of one of several methods for reducing a set of variables to a lesser number of new variables, each of which is a function of one or more of the original variables.
  • faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
  • fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
  • fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
  • fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • fallout shelter — protective bunker
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • false miterwort — foamflower.
  • familiarisation — Alternative spelling of familiarization.
  • familiarization — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
  • family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
  • fantasmagorical — Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
  • fatal exception — (programming, operating system)   A program execution error which is trapped by the operating system and which results in abrupt termination of the program. It may be possible for the program to catch some such errors, e.g. a floating point underflow; others, such as an invalid memory access (an attempt to write to read-only memory or an attempt to read memory outside of the program's address space), may always cause control to pass to the operating system without allowing the program an opportunity to handle the error. The details depend on the language's run-time system and the operating system. See also: fatal error.
  • fault tolerance — (architecture)   1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. The number of faults a system or component can withstand before normal operation is impaired.
  • fauntleroy suit — a formal outfit for a boy composed of a hip-length jacket and knee-length pants, often in black velvet, and a wide, lacy collar and cuffs, usually worn with a broad sash at the waist and sometimes a large, loose bow at the neck, popular in the late 19th century.
  • feast of lights — Hanukkah.
  • feel one's oats — a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
  • feelgood factor — When journalists refer to the feelgood factor, they mean that people are feeling hopeful and optimistic about the future.
  • fellow creature — a kindred creature, especially a fellow human being.
  • fellow traveler — a person who supports or sympathizes with a political party, especially the Communist Party, but is not an enrolled member.
  • ferroelasticity — (physics) A phenomenon, analogous to ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, in which spontaneous strain arises within a material.
  • ferrous sulfate — a bluish-green, crystalline, saline-tasting, water-soluble heptahydrated solid, FeSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used chiefly in the manufacture of other iron salts, in water purification, fertilizer, inks, pigments, tanning, photography, and in medicine in the treatment of anemia.
  • fetal diagnosis — prenatal determination of genetic or chemical abnormalities in a fetus, esp by amniocentesis
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
  • filling station — service station (def 1).
  • first world war — World War I.
  • five-star hotel — a top-quality hotel offering exceptional luxury
  • flannel-mouthed — speaking thickly, as if one's mouth were full of flannel
  • flapping router — (networking)   A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
  • flatter oneself — to hold the self-satisfying or self-deluding belief (that)
  • flight of fancy — An idea or statement that is very imaginative but complicated, silly, or impractical can be referred to as a flight of fancy.
  • flight of ideas — a rapid flow of thought, manifested by accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic: a symptom of some mental illnesses, especially manic disorder.
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