15-letter words containing c, l, i, t, o
- electrophoresis — The movement of charged particles in a fluid or gel under the influence of an electric field.
- electrophoretic — Of, pertaining to, or produced by electrophoresis.
- electropositive — Electrically positive.
- electrosurgical — Relating to electrosurgery.
- electrothermics — the study of electricity and heat, or of electrically generated heat
- elegiac couplet — a couplet composed of a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter
- eleutheromaniac — Having a passionate mania for freedom.
- eleutherophobic — afraid of freedom
- emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
- encephalization — (biology) the amount of brain mass exceeding that related to an animal's total body mass.
- encephalopathic — Relating to encephalopathy.
- encyclopedicity — The quality or state of being encyclopedic.
- endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
- endonucleolytic — relating to endonuclease
- enterobacterial — relating to enterobacteria
- entomologically — In terms of entomology.
- epistemological — Of or pertaining to epistemology or theory of knowledge, as a field of study.
- escape velocity — great enough speed to escape gravity
- ethnolinguistic — Of or pertaining to ethnolinguistics.
- ethnomusicology — The study of the music of different cultures, especially non-Western ones.
- eudiometrically — By means of or in terms of eudiometry.
- eviction clause — a clause by which a contract or other agreement may be terminated, especially between theatrical producers and theater owners in whose agreements it is often stipulated that when weekly receipts fall below a certain minimum usually for two consecutive weeks, the production must vacate the theater.
- exceptionalness — The quality of being exceptional.
- exemplification — The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
- extension cable — an extra length of cable with a plug and a connector that can be added to an electric lead
- 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.
- 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.
- ferroelasticity — (physics) A phenomenon, analogous to ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, in which spontaneous strain arises within a material.
- fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
- fifth columnist — A fifth columnist is someone who secretly supports and helps the enemies of the country or organization they are in.
- file descriptor — (programming, operating system) An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
- 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 recorder — an electronic device aboard an aircraft that automatically records some aspects of the aircraft's performance in flight.
- 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.
- 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.
- fork-lift truck — Also called forklift truck, fork truck. a small vehicle with two power-operated prongs at the front that can be slid under heavy loads and then raised for moving and stacking materials in warehouses, shipping depots, etc.
- fourth official — In football, the fourth official is an official who assists the referee and assistant referees from the side of the pitch.
- fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
- 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.
- friction clutch — a clutch in which one part turns another by friction between them.
- functionability — functional (def 3).
- functional food — a food containing additives which provide extra nutritional value