15-letter words containing f, a, c, t, o, r
- price inflation — inflation fuelled by rising prices
- pro-confederate — united in a league, alliance, or conspiracy.
- proper fraction — a fraction having the numerator less, or lower in degree, than the denominator.
- re-notification — a formal notifying or informing.
- reality fiction — a satirical parody of a reality TV show
- recertification — the act of certifying.
- reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- refectory table — a long, narrow table having a single stretcher between trestlelike supports at the ends.
- refortification — the act or state of being refortified
- requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
- respecification — the act of specifying.
- right of search — the privilege of a nation at war to search neutral ships on the high seas for contraband or other matter, carried in violation of neutrality, that may subject the ship to seizure.
- rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
- self-laceration — the result of lacerating; a rough, jagged tear.
- simple fraction — a ratio of two integers.
- soft-shell crab — a crab, especially the blue crab, that has recently molted and therefore has a soft, edible shell.
- star of courage — a Canadian award for bravery
- station officer — a person who is in charge of a fire station
- strait of canso — a channel in Canada, between the Nova Scotia mainland and S Cape Breton Island
- surface tension — the elasticlike force existing in the surface of a body, especially a liquid, tending to minimize the area of the surface, caused by asymmetries in the intermolecular forces between surface molecules.
- tentaculiferous — having tentacles
- tetrafunctional — pertaining to molecules or groups that can bond at four sites.
- the confederacy — the league of Southern states that seceded from the U.S. in 1860 & 1861; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex., & Va.
- through traffic — traffic which continues on a road or highway rather than crossing onto a different road
- toreador fresco — a mural (c1500 b.c.) from Minoan Crete.
- tourist traffic — the number of tourists that visit an area
- tractive effort — the force exerted by a locomotive or other powered vehicle on its driving wheels.
- traffic control — management of road use
- traffic offence — a violation of traffic regulations, such as breaking the speed limit
- transfer factor — a lymphocyte product that, when extracted from T cells of an individual with immunity to a particular antigen, can confer that immunity when administered to another individual of the same species.
- turf accountant — bookmaker (def 1).
- ultramicrofiche — ultrafiche.
- unaccounted for — If people or things are unaccounted for, you do not know where they are or what has happened to them.
- unaccounted-for — not accounted for; not understood; unexplained: an explosion resulting from some unaccounted-for mechanical failure.
- velcro fastener — a fastener made of Velcro
- vicar of christ — the pope, with reference to his claim to stand in the place of Jesus Christ and possess His authority in the church.
- viral infection — disease caused by a virus
- vulgar fraction — common fraction.
- warrant officer — (in the U.S. Armed Forces) an officer of one of four grades ranking above enlisted personnel and below commissioned officers.