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

  • franco-american — an American of French or French-Canadian descent.
  • french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
  • french vermouth — a dry aromatic white wine
  • inch of mercury — a unit of atmospheric pressure, being the pressure equal to that exerted by a column of mercury one inch high under standard conditions of temperature and gravity: 33.864 millibars. Abbreviation: in. Hg.
  • interferometric — Of or pertaining to interferometry or interferometers.
  • job's comforter — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
  • law-enforcement — of police, anti-crime
  • limiting factor — Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
  • linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
  • make certain of — to ensure (that one will get something); confirm
  • make tracks for — to go or head towards
  • malconformation — Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; disproportion of parts.
  • medical officer — a doctor of medicine who serves in the armed forces in a medical capacity
  • member function — A method in C++.
  • microcentrifuge — A centrifuge used in laboratories to separate materials from small samples (especially of biological material).
  • microfiltration — Filtration through a microporous membrane.
  • micromicrofarad — picofarad. Symbol: μμF.
  • microsoft basic — (language)   (MS-BASIC) A dialect of BASIC from Microsoft, originally developed by Bill Gates in a garage back in the CP/M days. It was originally known as GWBasic, then QBASIC and finally MS-BASIC. When the MS-DOS operating system came out, it incorporated the GWBASIC.EXE or BASICA.EXE interpreters. GWBASIC ("Gee Whiz") incorporated graphics and a screen editor and was compatible with earlier BASICs. QBASIC was more sophisticated. Version 4.5 had a full screen editor, debugger and compiler. The compiler could also produce executable files but to run these a utility program (BRUN44.EXE) had to be present. Thus source code could be kept private. From DOS 5.0 or 6.0 onward, MS-BASIC was standard. Version 1.1 produced stand-alone executables and could display graphics.
  • 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.
  • moccasin flower — the lady's-slipper.
  • molecular knife — a segment of genetic material that inhibits the reproduction of the AIDS virus by breaking up specific areas of the virus's genes.
  • multiple factor — polygene.
  • myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
  • nitrochloroform — chloropicrin.
  • non-conformance — lack of conformity.
  • 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.
  • nonconformities — Plural form of nonconformity.
  • ocean of storms — the largest of the dark plains (maria) on the surface of the moon, situated in the second and third quadrant
  • officer of arms — an officer with the duties of a herald, especially one charged with the devising, granting, or confirming of armorial bearings.
  • organic farming — farming with organic methods
  • pacific madrone — any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
  • 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.
  • performance car — a car that can go very fast and can increase its speed very quickly
  • platform rocker — a rocking chair supported on a stationary base
  • platform scales — a weighing machine which has a platform that you put something on to be weighed
  • platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
  • premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
  • rockrose family — the plant family Cistaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually opposite leaves, solitary or clustered flowers, and capsular fruit, and including the frostweed, pinweed, and rockrose.
  • scolopendriform — resembling scolopendra
  • scotch foursome — foursome (def 2b).
  • self-proclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • service uniform — a uniform for routine duties and service, as distinguished from work, dress, or full-dress uniforms.
  • simple fraction — a ratio of two integers.
  • sister of mercy — a member of a congregation of sisters founded in Dublin in 1827 by Catherine McAuley (1787–1841) and engaged chiefly in works of spiritual and corporal mercy.
  • summary offence — an offence that is triable in a magistrates' court
  • the second form — the second year of secondary school
  • ultramicrofiche — ultrafiche.
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