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15-letter words containing c, o, f, r, e, t

  • frederick northChristopher, pen name of John Wilson.
  • french overture — a short piece in three movements common in the 17th and 18th centuries
  • french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
  • french vermouth — a dry aromatic white wine
  • 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.
  • frigidoreceptor — a receptor stimulated by cold.
  • frontal cyclone — any extratropical cyclone associated with a front: the most common cyclonic storm.
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
  • fusospirochetes — Plural form of fusospirochete.
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • in deference to — out of regard or respect for (a person or the person's position or wishes)
  • interferometric — Of or pertaining to interferometry or interferometers.
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • interreflection — The illumination of an object by reflected light from other objects that are not light sources.
  • irrespective of — regardless of sth
  • job's comforter — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
  • law-enforcement — of police, anti-crime
  • leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
  • legacy software — legacy system
  • linear function — linear transformation.
  • loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
  • make certain of — to ensure (that one will get something); confirm
  • make tracks for — to go or head towards
  • member function — A method in C++.
  • microcentrifuge — A centrifuge used in laboratories to separate materials from small samples (especially of biological material).
  • microsoft excel — (tool)   A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world.
  • multiple factor — polygene.
  • narcotrafficker — One who traffics in illegal narcotics.
  • neuroscientific — the field of study encompassing the various scientific disciplines dealing with the structure, development, function, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system.
  • no respecter of — If you say that someone or something is no respecter of a rule or tradition, you mean that the rule or tradition is not important to them.
  • non-enforcement — the act or process of enforcing.
  • non-manufacture — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • non-rectifiable — able to be rectified.
  • noncertificated — not possessing a certificate, not certified
  • nonconformities — Plural form of nonconformity.
  • noninterference — the policy or practice of refraining from interference, especially in political affairs.
  • not care a fuck — not to care at all
  • ocean of storms — the largest of the dark plains (maria) on the surface of the moon, situated in the second and third quadrant
  • official strike — a collective stoppage of work by part or all of the workforce of an organization with the approval of the trade union concerned. The stoppage may be accompanied by the payment of strike pay by the trade union concerned
  • olfactory nerve — either one of the first pair of cranial nerves, consisting of sensory fibers that conduct to the brain the impulses from the mucous membranes of the nose.
  • on the track of — If you are on the track of someone or something, you are trying to find them, or find information about them.
  • out of practice — If you are out of practice at doing something, you have not had much experience of it recently, although you used to do it a lot or be quite good at it.
  • overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
  • passport office — an office which issues passports
  • peacock feather — a (distinctive and brightly coloured) feather from the peacock
  • perfectionistic — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
  • perfector press — a flatbed press for printing both sides of a sheet in one operation.
  • performance art — a collaborative art form originating in the 1970s as a fusion of several artistic media, as painting, film, video, music, drama, and dance, and deriving in part from the 1960s performance happenings.
  • perfunctoriness — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • personification — the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
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