16-letter words containing c, o, n, f, e, r
- french directory — the body of five directors in power in France from 1795 until their overthrow by Napoleon in 1799
- french indochina — an area in SE Asia, formerly a French colonial federation including Cochin-China, the protectorates of Annam, Cambodia, Tonkin, and Laos, and the leased territory of Kwangchowan: now comprising the three independent states of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Capital: Hanoi.
- french polynesia — a French overseas territory in the S Pacific, including the Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, and other scattered island groups. 1544 sq. mi. (4000 sq. km). Capital: Papeete.
- french telephone — handset (def 1).
- friction gearing — wheels or disks transmitting power by means of frictional contact.
- friction welding — a method of welding thermoplastics or metals by the heat generated by rubbing the members to be joined against each other under pressure.
- friendly society — law: mutual group providing benefits
- front and center — If a topic or question is front and center, a lot of attention is being paid to it or a lot of people are talking about it.
- front projection — a display system that projects an enlarged television picture on the front surface of a reflective screen.
- functional water — water containing additives that provide extra nutritional value
- funeral director — a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.
- general factotum — a person who does all sorts of jobs; general assistant
- grace-and-favour — (of a house, flat, etc) owned by the sovereign and granted free of rent to a person to whom the sovereign wishes to express gratitude
- hawthorne effect — a positive change in the performance of a group of persons taking part in an experiment or study due to their perception of being singled out for special consideration.
- heat of reaction — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a product is formed at constant pressure
- high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
- hydroferricyanic — (chemistry) Pertaining to, or containing, or obtained from, hydrogen, ferric iron, and cyanogen.
- hyper-conformity — action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices, etc.
- in the course of — If something happens in the course of a particular period of time, it happens during that period of time.
- infinite product — a sequence of numbers in which an infinite number of terms are multiplied together.
- informed consent — a patient's consent to a medical or surgical procedure or to participation in a clinical study after being properly advised of the relevant medical facts and the risks involved.
- infostreet, inc. — (company) An Internet consulting and development company dedicated to assisting companies in establishing an Internet presence. InfoStreet develope Internet strategies, design and create web pages, and host and maintain websites. InfoStreet, has been recognized by PC/Computing as the "Best of the Top Home Page Services" (August 1996) and has been featured in Netguide magazine and the Wiley and Son's Electronic Marketing book.
- inverse function — the function that replaces another function when the dependent and independent variables of the first function are interchanged for an appropriate set of values of the dependent variable. In y = sin x and x = arc sin y, the inverse function of sine is arc sine.
- juvenile officer — a police officer concerned with juvenile delinquents.
- louisiana french — French as spoken in Louisiana; Cajun. Abbreviation: LaF.
- lower california — Baja California.
- marsh cinquefoil — a variety of cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris, that grows in marshy areas
- montgomery clift — Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.
- motoring offence — a crime committed which concerns driving
- narcotraffickers — Plural form of narcotrafficker.
- newspaper office — an office where the editorial and production staff of a newspaper work
- nick someone for — to defraud someone to the extent of
- no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
- non-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- of a certain age — of an unspecified age, but no longer young
- off one's rocker — Also called runner. one of the curved pieces on which a cradle or a rocking chair rocks.
- old north french — the dialect of Old French spoken in northern France. Abbreviation: ONF.
- once and for all — former; having at one time been: the once and future king.
- ordnance factory — a factory that makes military weapons and ammunition
- pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
- peace conference — a conference where representatives of warring governments or countries sign a treaty to end conflict
- peregrine falcon — a globally distributed falcon, Falco peregrinus, much used in falconry because of its swift flight: several subspecies are endangered.
- performance bond — contract bond.
- performance test — a test requiring little or no use of language, the test materials being designed to elicit manual or behavioral responses rather than verbal ones.
- person of colour — a person who is not White
- personal effects — belongings
- platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- preference stock — preferred stock.
- presence of mind — a calm state of mind that allows one to think clearly or act effectively in an emergency.
- prespecification — the act of specifying.