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15-letter words containing f, a, l, c

  • ineffectualness — Inefficacy.
  • inefficaciously — Without efficacy or effect.
  • infants' school — kindergarten.
  • infraclavicular — (anatomy) Below the clavicle.
  • infrastructural — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
  • insignificantly — Of such extremely small quantity or degree that it is not worth measuring.
  • interfascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • intrafascicular — between the xylem and phloem elements of a vascular bundle
  • kaffeeklatscher — a person who participates, especially regularly, in a kaffee klatsch.
  • kaffeeklatsches — Plural form of kaffeeklatsch.
  • kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
  • lake-of-lucerne — a canton in central Switzerland. 576 sq. mi. (1490 sq. km).
  • latensification — (in photography) the process of intensifying a latent image by the use of chemicals, extra exposure to light, or other means
  • latent function — any function of an institution or other social phenomenon that is unintentional and often unrecognized.
  • latino-faliscan — a group of early Italic languages, including Latin and Faliscan.
  • law-enforcement — of police, anti-crime
  • leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
  • legacy software — legacy system
  • liaison officer — a person who liaises between groups or units
  • lichenification — a leathery hardening of the skin, usually caused by chronic irritation.
  • life expectancy — the probable number of years remaining in the life of an individual or class of persons determined statistically, affected by such factors as heredity, physical condition, nutrition, and occupation.
  • limiting factor — Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
  • linear function — linear transformation.
  • long-sufferance — long-suffering.
  • make capital of — to get advantage from
  • malconformation — Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; disproportion of parts.
  • medical officer — a doctor of medicine who serves in the armed forces in a medical capacity
  • michael faraday — Michael, 1791–1867, English physicist and chemist: discoverer of electromagnetic induction.
  • microfiltration — Filtration through a microporous membrane.
  • moccasin flower — the lady's-slipper.
  • molecular knife — a segment of genetic material that inhibits the reproduction of the AIDS virus by breaking up specific areas of the virus's genes.
  • multifunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • multiple factor — polygene.
  • myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
  • non-enforceable — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
  • non-rectifiable — able to be rectified.
  • nonconfidential — not confidential
  • noninflectional — not inflectional
  • nonspecifically — in a nonspecific way
  • nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
  • official family — the executives or officials chiefly responsible for the operation of an organization or government.
  • 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
  • olfactory nerve — either one of the first pair of cranial nerves, consisting of sensory fibers that conduct to the brain the impulses from the mucous membranes of the nose.
  • olfactory tract — a long narrow triangular band of white tissue originating in the olfactory bulb and extending back to the point at which its fibres enter the base of the cerebrum
  • oval of cassini — the locus of a point such that the product of the distances from the point to two fixed points is constant.
  • pacific islands — a U.S. trust territory in the Pacific Ocean, comprising the Mariana, Marshall, and Caroline Islands: approved by the United Nations 1947; since 1976 constituents of the trusteeship have established or moved toward self-government. 717 sq. mi. (1857 sq. km).
  • 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
  • perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
  • pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
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