14-letter words containing a, r, c, f, o
- magnetic force — the repelling or attracting force between a magnet and a ferromagnetic material, between a magnet and a current-carrying conductor, etc.
- matter-of-fact — adhering strictly to fact; not imaginative; prosaic; dry; commonplace: a matter-of-fact account of the political rally.
- microfibrillar — Of or pertaining to microfibrils.
- microfilaments — Plural form of microfilament.
- microfinancier — A person or organisation offering microfinance.
- microsoft mail — (messaging, tool) (MS Mail) A Microsoft Windows electronic mail program.
- misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- molecular film — a film or layer one molecule thick.
- mortifications — Plural form of mortification.
- mother of coal — mineral charcoal.
- multifactorial — having or stemming from a number of different causes or influences: Some medical researchers regard cancer as a multifactorial disease.
- nonconformance — lack of conformity.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- party official — an official of a political party
- 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.
- pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons
- platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- recodification — the act, process, or result of arranging in a systematic form or code.