15-letter words containing a, l, i, f
- decalcification — the act or process of decalcifying.
- deerfield beach — a town in S Florida.
- defect analysis — (programming) Using defects as data for continuous quality improvement. Defect analysis generally seeks to classify defects into categories and identify possible causes in order to direct process improvement efforts.
- definite clause — (logic) A Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- 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.
- dexfenfluramine — an adrenergic drug, a form of fenfluramine, formerly used in treating obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
- diallyl sulfide — allyl sulfide.
- diffrangibility — the power or capability of being diffracted
- dinoflagellates — Plural form of dinoflagellate.
- disaster relief — financial or physical help provided to people or areas hit by a disaster
- disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
- disinflationary — (economics) Exhibiting or causing reduced inflation.
- distastefulness — The state or quality of being distasteful or objectionable; causing averseness; unpleasantness.
- disulfuric acid — pyrosulfuric acid
- dryland farming — a mode of farming, practiced in regions of slight or insufficient rainfall, that relies mainly on tillage methods rendering the soil more receptive of moisture and on the selection of suitable crops.
- dysfunctionally — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- early saxifrage — an eastern North American plant, Saxifraga virginiensis, of the saxifrage family, having toothed basal leaves and branched clusters of small white flowers.
- electrification — The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
- embalming fluid — a liquid used to treat a dead body, which contains preservatives to retard putrefaction
- enfant terrible — If you describe someone as an enfant terrible, you mean that they are clever but unconventional, and often cause problems or embarrassment for their friends or families.
- exemplification — The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
- explain oneself — to make clear what one means
- extended family — relatives
- facile princeps — an obvious leader
- 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.
- faint-heartedly — nervously
- 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.
- falling weather — wet weather, as rain or snow.
- 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.
- false miterwort — foamflower.
- familiar spirit — a supernatural spirit often assuming animal form, supposed to attend and aid a witch, wizard, etc
- familiarisation — Alternative spelling of familiarization.
- familiarization — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- family business — company owned and run by a family
- family division — a division of the High Court of Justice dealing with divorce, the rights of access to children, etc
- family grouping — a system, used usually in the infant school, of grouping children of various ages together, esp for project work
- family planning — the concept or a program of limiting the size of families through the spacing or prevention of pregnancies, especially for economic reasons.
- family practice — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
- family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
- fantasmagorical — Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
- fantasticalness — The state or condition of being fantastical.
- fasciolopsiasis — a parasitic disease caused by flukes of the genus Fasciolopsis and characterized by abdominal pain and diarrhea: common in the Far East.
- fashionableness — The state of being fashionable; stylishness; elegance.
- 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.
- 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.