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14-letter words containing c, o, m, f, r

  • kilogram-force — a meter-kilogram-second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity, when acting on a mass of one kilogram. Abbreviation: kgf.
  • 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.
  • microfortnight — One millionth of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measurement; 1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel; the mass unit of the system is taken to be a firkin of water). The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realises that the current value is bogus. This time is specified in microfortnights! Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnight have also been reported.
  • microsoft mail — (messaging, tool)   (MS Mail) A Microsoft Windows electronic mail program.
  • microsoft word — (text, tool, product)   A popular word processor, part of the Microsoft Office suite. The original Word (versions 1.0 to 4.?/5.0?) was originally text-based (non-GUI) and ran under MS-DOS. Then Microsoft released Word for Windows 1.0 and 2.0. Later they produced new versions for each OS, both numbered 6.0.
  • misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
  • molecular film — a film or layer one molecule thick.
  • morning coffee — a mid-morning snack with a cup of coffee drunk during a short break at work, or in your house, when you might invite someone in
  • mortifications — Plural form of mortification.
  • mother of coal — mineral charcoal.
  • mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • multifactorial — having or stemming from a number of different causes or influences: Some medical researchers regard cancer as a multifactorial disease.
  • non-conforming — to act in accordance or harmony; comply (usually followed by to): to conform to rules.
  • non-conformist — a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
  • non-conformity — failure or refusal to conform, as with established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
  • nonconformance — lack of conformity.
  • nonconformists — a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
  • nonenforcement — the lack of enforcement, esp in law enforcement
  • nonformalistic — Not formalistic.
  • nonperformance — failure or neglect to perform.
  • offer document — a document sent by a person or firm making a takeover bid to the shareholders of the target company, giving details of the offer that has been made and, usually, reasons for accepting it
  • office manager — employee in charge of office personnel
  • officers' mess — a place where officers eat or take recreation
  • oral-formulaic — noting or pertaining to poetry of an earlier spoken tradition, as the Iliad, that uses formulas to aid its continued expression.
  • osmoconformers — Plural form of osmoconformer.
  • outperformance — The act or state of outperforming.
  • platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • preperformance — occurring before a performance
  • 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 .
  • reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
  • reinforcements — the act of reinforcing.
  • rock formation — rock that is arranged or formed in a certain way
  • ruhmkorff coil — induction coil.
  • schafer method — a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.
  • school uniform — standard outfit worn by pupils
  • self-composure — calmness and self-possession
  • soft ice-cream — a softer and lighter-textured ice cream that contains more air than standard ice-cream. It was developed in Britain in the 20th century.
  • space platform — space station.
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • transformistic — of or relating to transformism or transformists
  • vacuum forming — a process in which a sheet of warmed thermoplastic is shaped by placing it in a mould and applying suction
  • well-confirmed — made certain as to truth, accuracy, validity, availability, etc.: confirmed reports of new fighting at the front; confirmed reservations on the three o'clock flight to Denver.
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