15-letter words containing c, r, o, s, f
- fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
- frederick soddy — Frederick, 1877–1956, English chemist: Nobel prize 1921.
- fructifications — Plural form of fructification.
- fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
- fusospirochetes — Plural form of fusospirochete.
- hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
- heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- irrespective of — regardless of sth
- job's comforter — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
- kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
- legacy software — legacy system
- liaison officer — a person who liaises between groups or units
- linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
- loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
- long-sufferance — long-suffering.
- make tracks for — to go or head towards
- 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.
- myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
- neuroscientific — the field of study encompassing the various scientific disciplines dealing with the structure, development, function, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system.
- news conference — a press conference, especially one held by a government official.
- no respecter of — If you say that someone or something is no respecter of a rule or tradition, you mean that the rule or tradition is not important to them.
- nonconformities — Plural form of nonconformity.
- nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
- 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.
- official strike — a collective stoppage of work by part or all of the workforce of an organization with the approval of the trade union concerned. The stoppage may be accompanied by the payment of strike pay by the trade union concerned
- passifloraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Passifloraceae, a tropical and subtropical family of climbing plants including the passionflowers: the flowers have five petals and threadlike parts forming a dense mass (corona) around the central disc
- passport office — an office which issues passports
- perfectionistic — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
- perfector press — a flatbed press for printing both sides of a sheet in one operation.
- perfunctoriness — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- person of color — the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
- personification — the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
- platform scales — a weighing machine which has a platform that you put something on to be weighed
- pott's fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
- preferred stock — stock that has a superior claim to that of common stock with respect to dividends and often to assets in the event of liquidation.
- prenflo process — The PRENFLO process is a gasification process to convert substances such as oil, gas, coal, and refinery residue into synthetic gas.
- press of canvas — the most sail a vessel can carry under given conditions
- prince of wales — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
- principal focus — focal point (def 1).
- processed foods — foods that have been treated or prepared by a special method, esp in order to preserve them
- puffin crossing — a UK pedestrian road crossing with traffic lights signalling red to stop the traffic flow when pedestrians are seen on the crossing by infrared detectors. The green signal reappears when no pedestrians are seen on the crossing
- register office — building where civil records are kept
- registry office — a government office and depository in which records and civil registers are kept and civil marriages performed.
- research fellow — A research fellow is a member of an academic institution whose job is to do research.
- reserve officer — a noncareer commissioned officer in a military reserve unit who has served on active duty and who may be recalled to active service during an emergency.
- resourcefulness — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.