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15-letter words containing c, a, n, t, f

  • enfranchisement — The act of enfranchising.
  • exemplification — The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
  • extensification — The process of making something (more) extensive.
  • fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
  • 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.
  • factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
  • factory farming — Factory farming is a system of farming which involves keeping animals indoors, often with very little space, and giving them special foods so that they grow more quickly or produce more eggs or milk.
  • fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
  • faith community — a community of people sharing the same religious faith
  • 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 pretences — fraud, deception
  • fantasmagorical — Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
  • fantasticalness — The state or condition of being fantastical.
  • fast-food chain — a chain of restaurants serving fast food
  • 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.
  • fetch and carry — to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
  • fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
  • fighting chance — a possibility of success following a struggle.
  • fire resistance — the amount of resistance of a material or construction to fire.
  • fission reactor — a nuclear reactor in which a fission reaction takes place
  • fitness fanatic — someone who is obsessed with exercise and keeping himself or herself fit
  • fitness tracker — a wearable electronic device or a software application that monitors one's physical fitness and daily physical activity.
  • flatbed scanner — a type of optical scanner having a flat, stationary surface on which a page is scanned by a moving head.
  • fleet insurance — Fleet insurance is a type of insurance contract that applies to a number of vehicles.
  • 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.
  • floating charge — an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral
  • floating policy — (in marine insurance) a policy that provides protection of a broad nature for shipments of merchandise and that is valid continuously until canceled.
  • floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
  • florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
  • flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
  • focal infection — an infection in which bacteria are localized in some region, as the tonsils or the tissue around a tooth, from which they may spread to some other organ or structure of the body.
  • for a certainty — without doubt
  • formation dance — any dance in which a number of couples form a certain arrangement, such as two facing lines or a circle, and perform a series of figures within or based on that arrangement
  • fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
  • fractional note — a banknote in a denomination smaller than the standard unit of currency
  • fractionalizing — Present participle of fractionalize.
  • fragrance strip — a folded, usually sealed strip on a page or card, impregnated with fragrance that is released when pulled or torn open: The magazine is full of fragrance strips in the advertisements.
  • francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
  • french tamarisk — a shrub or small tree, Tamarix gallica, of the Mediterranean region, having bluish foliage and white or pinkish flowers.
  • french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
  • friend at court — a friend in a position of influence or power who may advance one's interests, especially a helpful person who is close to someone in authority.
  • frontal cyclone — any extratropical cyclone associated with a front: the most common cyclonic storm.
  • fructifications — Plural form of fructification.
  • functionability — functional (def 3).
  • functional food — a food containing additives which provide extra nutritional value
  • functional load — the relative frequency of occurrence of words that are differentiated in one and the same position by only one distinctive feature. In English, the opposition of voiced and voiceless th has a low functional load being used only to distinguish such pairs as ether and either, or wreath and wreathe.
  • functional unit — A subsystem of the central processing unit of a computer. E.g. arithmetic and logic unit, memory address register, barrel shifter, register file.
  • functionalistic — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • functionalities — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
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