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15-letter words containing e, c, l

  • floor exercises — exercises designed to improve fitness, carried out on the floor
  • florence fennel — a variety of fennel, Foeniculum vulgare azoricum, having enlarged leaf bases, which are blanched and used especially as an ingredient in salads.
  • florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
  • flowers of zinc — a white or yellowish-white, amorphous, odorless, water-insoluble powder, ZnO, used chiefly as a paint pigment, in cosmetics, dental cements, matches, white printing inks, and opaque glass, and in medicine in the treatment of skin conditions.
  • fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter.
  • fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.
  • fly honeysuckle — either of two honeysuckle shrubs, Lonicera canadensis, of eastern North America, or L. xylosteum, of Eurasia, having paired yellowish flowers tinged with red.
  • focal infection — an infection in which bacteria are localized in some region, as the tonsils or the tissue around a tooth, from which they may spread to some other organ or structure of the body.
  • food technology — a branch of technology that is involved in the production of food
  • forecastle deck — a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; topgallant forecastle.
  • forecastle head — the extreme fore part of a forecastle superstructure.
  • forward echelon — (in a military operation) the troops and officers in a combat zone or in a position to engage the enemy.
  • fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
  • fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
  • fractional note — a banknote in a denomination smaller than the standard unit of currency
  • franklin pierce — Franklin, 1804–69, 14th president of the U.S. 1853–57.
  • french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
  • french mulberry — a shrub, Callicarpa americana, of the verbena family, of the south-central U.S. and the West Indies, having violet-colored fruit and bluish flowers.
  • french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
  • frontal cyclone — any extratropical cyclone associated with a front: the most common cyclonic storm.
  • fuel efficiency — the (least) amount of fuel used in proportion to the number of miles travelled
  • full-cream milk — whole unskimmed milk
  • functionalities — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
  • gaelic football — an Irish game played with 15 players on each side and goals resembling rugby posts with a net on the bottom part. Players are allowed to kick, punch, and bounce the ball and attempt to get it over the bar or in the net
  • galactic nebula — a nebula in the Milky Way.
  • gale-force wind — a wind of force seven to ten on the Beaufort scale or from 45 to 90 kilometres per hour
  • galvanic couple — voltaic couple.
  • galvanomagnetic — of or relating to the creation of an electromagnetic field within a conductor, as a metal, or a semiconductor through which an electric current is passed.
  • garbage collect — garbage collection
  • gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
  • gene technology — manipulation of DNA
  • general officer — an officer ranking above colonel.
  • general science — basic science taught as a school subject
  • genetic fallacy — the fallacy of confusing questions of validity and logical order with questions of origin and temporal order.
  • geneva protocol — the agreement in 1925 to ban the use of asphyxiating, poisonous, or other gases in war. It does not ban the development or manufacture of such gases
  • geochronologist — A geologist whose speciality is geochronology.
  • geomagnetically — In a geomagnetic way; through geomagnetism.
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • geotectonically — from a geotectonic point of view
  • gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • gladbach-rheydt — a former city in W Germany; now part of Mönchengladbach.
  • glanville-hicks — Peggy, 1912–1990, U.S. composer and music critic, born in Australia.
  • gleichschaltung — the enforcement of standardization and the elimination of all opposition within the political, economic, and cultural institutions of a state
  • glen canyon dam — Adam Clayton, Jr. 1908–72, U.S. clergyman, politician, and civil-rights leader: congressman 1945–67, 1969–71.
  • globe artichoke — artichoke (defs 1, 2).
  • gloucester city — a city in W New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
  • gloucestershire — a county in SW England. 1255 sq. mi. (2640 sq. km). County seat: Gloucester.
  • gluconeogenesis — glucose formation in animals from a noncarbohydrate source, as from proteins or fats.
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