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

  • nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
  • observer force — a force deployed to an area of conflict to observe proceedings
  • off the charts — a sheet exhibiting information in tabular form.
  • officers' mess — a place where officers eat or take recreation
  • on the surface — to all appearances
  • osmoconformers — Plural form of osmoconformer.
  • pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
  • 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.
  • platform scale — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • 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.
  • potts-fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
  • prison officer — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • 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.
  • rafraichissoir — a table of the 18th century having a cooler for bottles and shelves for plates.
  • recessionproof — not susceptible to an economic recession: a recessionproof economy; He wants a long-term contract to make his job recessionproof.
  • reflectionless — unable to reflect, not possessing a reflection
  • refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
  • regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
  • reinforcements — the act of reinforcing.
  • resinification — to convert into a resin.
  • robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
  • ross ice shelf — an ice barrier filling the S part of the Ross Sea.
  • sacchariferous — containing or yielding sugar.
  • safety officer — The safety officer in a company or an organization is the person who is responsible for the safety of the people who work or visit there.
  • saint francois — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing generally W to the St. Lawrence River. 165 miles (266 km) long.
  • sales forecast — a prediction of future sales of a product, either judgmental or based on previous sales patterns
  • satisfactorily — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
  • saxifragaceous — belonging to the plant family Saxifragaceae.
  • 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.
  • self-composure — calmness and self-possession
  • self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
  • self-discovery — process of understanding oneself
  • self-enforcing — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
  • self-reckoning — count; computation; calculation.
  • self-recording — recording automatically, as an instrument.
  • 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
  • social welfare — social services provided by a government for its citizens.
  • 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.
  • soft sculpture — sculpture principally in vinyl, canvas, or other flexible material reproducing objects of characteristically rigid construction, as an electric fan, a typewriter, a set of drums, or a bathtub, in forms having a malleable texture and a liquescent, somewhat deflated appearance.
  • sorting office — postal
  • space platform — space station.
  • special forces — crack military team
  • staff corporal — a noncommissioned rank in the British Army above that of staff sergeant and below that of warrant officer
  • state of grace — grace (def 8d).
  • steer clear of — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
  • stereospecific — (of a reaction) producing a simple stereoisomer.
  • stock transfer — Stock transfer is the act of moving goods from one part of the distribution chain to another.
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