14-letter words containing c, o, r, f, h
- john c fremont — John Charles, 1813–90, U.S. general and explorer: first Republican presidential candidate, 1856.
- 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.
- mother of coal — mineral charcoal.
- mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- off the charts — a sheet exhibiting information in tabular form.
- off the record — making or affording a record.
- off-the-record — not for publication; not to be quoted: a candidate's off-the-record remarks to reporters.
- on the surface — to all appearances
- over the fence — unreasonable, unfair, or unjust
- part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
- porcupine fish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
- rafraichissoir — a table of the 18th century having a cooler for bottles and shelves for plates.
- reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
- ross ice shelf — an ice barrier filling the S part of the Ross Sea.
- ruhmkorff coil — induction coil.
- sacchariferous — containing or yielding sugar.
- 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 of arts — a public building in a small town, originally one used for adult education
- school uniform — standard outfit worn by pupils
- scotch furnace — ore hearth.
- share of voice — the proportion of the total audience or readership commanded by a media group across its full range of publishing and broadcasting activities
- traffic holdup — a temporary stoppage in the flow of traffic where a number of vehicles are obstructed and unable to move
- truth-function — a statement so constructed from other statements that its truth-value depends on the truth-values of the other statements rather than on their meanings.
- turkish coffee — a strong, usually sweetened coffee, made by boiling the pulverized coffee beans.