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15-letter words containing f, a, r, u, c

  • disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
  • disulfuric acid — pyrosulfuric acid
  • drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
  • faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • feature article — a feature article in a newspaper or magazine deals in depth with a topic or person
  • fellow creature — a kindred creature, especially a fellow human being.
  • fiduciary issue — an issue of banknotes not backed by gold
  • fischer-dieskau — Dietrich [dee-trik;; German dee-trikh] /ˈdi trɪk;; German ˈdi trɪx/ (Show IPA), 1925–2012, German baritone.
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
  • fleet insurance — Fleet insurance is a type of insurance contract that applies to a number of vehicles.
  • flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
  • florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
  • fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.
  • foolscap quarto — a book size, 63⁄4 by 81⁄2 inches (foolscap quarto)
  • formal calculus — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
  • four-ball match — a match, scored by holes, between two pairs of players, in which the four players tee off and the partners alternate in hitting the pair's ball having the better lie off the tee.
  • fourth official — In football, the fourth official is an official who assists the referee and assistant referees from the side of the pitch.
  • francis bushman — Francis X(avier) 1883–1966, U.S. film actor.
  • francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
  • freeze-fracture — to prepare (material) for the electron microscope by freeze fracturing.
  • french guianese — an overseas department of France, on the NE coast of South America: formerly a French colony. 35,135 sq. mi. (91,000 sq. km). Capital: Cayenne.
  • friend at court — a friend in a position of influence or power who may advance one's interests, especially a helpful person who is close to someone in authority.
  • fructifications — Plural form of fructification.
  • full-cream milk — whole unskimmed milk
  • funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
  • hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • hydraulic fluid — a fluid, usually of low viscosity, as oil, used in a hydraulic system.
  • hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • infraclavicular — (anatomy) Below the clavicle.
  • infrastructural — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
  • infrastructures — Plural form of infrastructure.
  • 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
  • lake-of-lucerne — a canton in central Switzerland. 576 sq. mi. (1490 sq. km).
  • linear function — linear transformation.
  • long-sufferance — long-suffering.
  • 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.
  • multiple factor — polygene.
  • non-manufacture — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • not care a fuck — not to care at all
  • nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
  • out of practice — If you are out of practice at doing something, you have not had much experience of it recently, although you used to do it a lot or be quite good at it.
  • 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
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