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15-letter words containing e, s, c, o, f, i

  • disaffectionate — not affectionate
  • disconformities — Plural form of disconformity.
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • doctor's office — doctor's surgery
  • edict of nantes — a seaport in and the capital of Loire-Atlantique, in W France, at the mouth of the Loire River.
  • efficaciousness — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
  • existence proof — non-constructive proof
  • extensification — The process of making something (more) extensive.
  • fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
  • fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
  • fee-for-service — pertaining to the charging of fees for specific services rendered in health care, as distinguished from participating in a prepaid medical practice: fee-for-service medicine.
  • ferroelasticity — (physics) A phenomenon, analogous to ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, in which spontaneous strain arises within a material.
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
  • fideicommissary — the recipient of a fideicommissum.
  • file descriptor — (programming, operating system)   An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
  • fireless cooker — an insulated container that seals in heat to cook food.
  • first-day cover — a cover marked so as to indicate that it was mailed on the first day of issue of the stamp it bears and from one of the cities at which the stamp was issued on that day.
  • fission reactor — a nuclear reactor in which a fission reaction takes place
  • floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
  • flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
  • floor exercises — exercises designed to improve fitness, carried out on the floor
  • 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.
  • fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.
  • focusing screen — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
  • food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
  • food processing — transforming raw materials into food
  • force the issue — to compel decision on some matter
  • foreign service — a division of the U.S. Department of State or of a foreign office that maintains diplomatic and consular posts and personnel in other countries.
  • forensic expert — an expert in applying scientific, technical or medical knowledge to the purposes of law
  • forthcomingness — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
  • 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.
  • functionalities — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
  • fusospirochetes — Plural form of fusospirochete.
  • heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
  • identifications — Plural form of identification.
  • inefficaciously — Without efficacy or effect.
  • intensification — to make intense or more intense.
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • irrespective of — regardless of sth
  • latensification — (in photography) the process of intensifying a latent image by the use of chemicals, extra exposure to light, or other means
  • liaison officer — a person who liaises between groups or units
  • lifestyle block — a semi-rural property comprising a house and land for small-scale farming
  • line of descent — someone's line of descent is all the people they are descended from
  • loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
  • 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.
  • monospecificity — the condition of being specific for a sole antigen
  • neuroscientific — the field of study encompassing the various scientific disciplines dealing with the structure, development, function, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system.
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