15-letter words containing f, a, l, t, r
- comfort blanket — a blanket that a young child is very attached to
- comfortableness — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
- comfortably off — If someone is comfortably off, they have enough money to be able to live without financial problems.
- comma butterfly — an orange-brown European vanessid butterfly, Polygonia c-album, with a white comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
- configurability — The property of being configurable.
- configurational — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
- confrontational — If you describe the way that someone behaves as confrontational, you are showing your disapproval of the fact that they are aggressive and likely to cause an argument or dispute.
- congelifraction — the shattering or splitting of rock or frozen soil due to the action of frost.
- contraflow lane — a traffic lane whose normal direction is reversed temporarily
- control surface — a movable surface, such as a rudder, elevator, aileron, etc, that controls an aircraft or rocket
- counterfactuals — Plural form of counterfactual.
- counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
- court of appeal — A Court of Appeal is a court which deals with appeals against legal judgments.
- court of claims — (in the US) a court that hears claims against the federal government
- crestfallenness — the state of being crestfallen
- crossfunctional — Spanning several functions.
- crystalliferous — producing or containing crystals
- day of the lord — Also called Day of Yahweh. (in Old Testament eschatology) a day of final judgment. Amos 5:18–21; Ezek. 30.
- deformalization — to make less formal; reduce the strictness, preciseness, etc., of.
- democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
- desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
- diffrangibility — the power or capability of being diffracted
- disaster relief — financial or physical help provided to people or areas hit by a disaster
- disinflationary — (economics) Exhibiting or causing reduced inflation.
- draft-mule work — drudgery
- electrification — The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
- enfant terrible — If you describe someone as an enfant terrible, you mean that they are clever but unconventional, and often cause problems or embarrassment for their friends or families.
- factor analysis — the use of one of several methods for reducing a set of variables to a lesser number of new variables, each of which is a function of one or more of the original variables.
- faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
- faint-heartedly — nervously
- fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
- falling weather — wet weather, as rain or snow.
- fallout shelter — protective bunker
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- false decretals — the Pseudo-Isidorian documents.
- false miterwort — foamflower.
- false pretences — fraud, deception
- false pretenses — If you do something under false pretenses, you do it when people do not know the truth about you and your intentions.
- familiar spirit — a supernatural spirit often assuming animal form, supposed to attend and aid a witch, wizard, etc
- familiarisation — Alternative spelling of familiarization.
- familiarization — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- family practice — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
- fantasmagorical — Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
- fault tolerance — (architecture) 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. The number of faults a system or component can withstand before normal operation is impaired.
- fauntleroy suit — a formal outfit for a boy composed of a hip-length jacket and knee-length pants, often in black velvet, and a wide, lacy collar and cuffs, usually worn with a broad sash at the waist and sometimes a large, loose bow at the neck, popular in the late 19th century.
- feature article — a feature article in a newspaper or magazine deals in depth with a topic or person
- feelgood factor — When journalists refer to the feelgood factor, they mean that people are feeling hopeful and optimistic about the future.
- fellow creature — a kindred creature, especially a fellow human being.
- fellow traveler — a person who supports or sympathizes with a political party, especially the Communist Party, but is not an enrolled member.
- ferranti f100-l — (processor) A processor, with 16-bit addressing, registers and data paths and a 1-bit serial ALU. The F100-L could only access 32K of memory (one address bit was used for indirection). It was designed by a British company for the British Military. The unique feature of the F100-L was that it had a complete control bus available for a coprocessor. Any instruction the F100-L couldn't decode was sent directly to the coprocessor for processing. Applications for coprocessors at the time were limited, but the design is still used in modern processors, such as the National Semiconductor 32000 series. The disk operating system was written by Alec Cawley.