18-letter words containing f, a, s, c
- infectious disease — illness spread by person to person
- inspector of taxes — an official of HMRC whose work is to assess individuals' income tax liability
- interface analysis — (testing) A software test which checks the interfaces between program elements for consistency and adherence to predefined rules or axioms.
- isabella of france — 1292–1358, wife (1308–27) of Edward II of England, whom, aided by her lover, Roger de Mortimer, she deposed; mother of Edward III
- jack of all trades — a person who is adept at many different kinds of work.
- jack-of-all-trades — a person who is adept at many different kinds of work.
- job classification — an arrangement of different types of employment within a company or industry, according to the skill, experience, or training required.
- king of the castle — most powerful figure
- law of mass action — the statement that the rate of a chemical reaction is proportional to the concentrations of the reacting substances.
- lifecycle analysis — Lifecycle analysis is the consideration of all the energy and materials that are needed to make a product and to dispose of it.
- lifesaving service — a private organization or government agency for general marine rescue operations.
- locally finite set — a collection of sets in a topological space in which each point of the space has a neighborhood that intersects a finite number of sets of the collection.
- logical shift left — logical shift
- malicious mischief — willful destruction of personal property motivated by ill will or resentment toward its owner or possessor.
- manufactured goods — products made by machine
- manufacturing base — the manufacturing industries of an area or a country considered as a unit and a constituent part of the economy
- medical profession — the body of people who work as doctors of medicine
- metamorphic facies — Geology. a group of metamorphic rock units characterized by particular mineralogic associations.
- mezzo-soprano clef — a C clef locating middle C on the line next to the lowest line of the staff.
- microsoft exchange — (messaging) Microsoft's messaging and enterprise collaboration server. Exchange's primary role is as an electronic mail message store but it can also store calendars, task lists, contact details, and other data.
- misplaced modifier — Grammar. a word, phrase, or clause that seems to refer to or modify an unintended word because of its placement in a sentence, as when young in When young, circuses appeal to all of us.
- much of a muchness — very similar
- negative cash flow — the situation when income is less than payments
- nike of samothrace — a Greek marble statue (c200 b.c.) of Nike found at Samothrace and now in the Louvre, Paris.
- no-fault insurance — Also called no-fault insurance. a form of automobile insurance designed to enable the policyholder in case of an accident to collect a certain basic compensation promptly for economic loss from his or her own insurance company without determination of liability.
- nursery facilities — places where young children are looked after
- office of readings — the first of the canonical hours; matins
- official solicitor — an officer of the Supreme Court of Judicature with special responsibilities for protecting the interests of persons under disability
- oil of catechumens — holy oil used in baptism, the ordination of a cleric, the coronation of a sovereign, or in the consecration of a church.
- pair of spectacles — a score of 0 in each innings of a match
- par for the course — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
- pedestrian traffic — the people coming and going on foot in a street, town, etc
- percussion flaking — a method of forming a flint tool by striking flakes from a stone core with another stone or a piece of bone or wood.
- performance artist — an artist that is involved in a theatrical presentation that incorporates various art forms, such as dance, sculpture, music, etc
- pilotless aircraft — an aircraft equipped for operation by radio or by robot control, without a human pilot aboard; drone.
- play second fiddle — be considered less important
- prince of darkness — Satan.
- purchasing officer — the member of staff in an organization who is responsible for buying goods or products
- quality of service — (communications, networking) (QoS) The performance properties of a network service, possibly including throughput, transit delay, priority. Some protocols allow packets or streams to include QoS requirements.
- quarterlife crisis — a crisis that may be experienced in one's twenties, involving anxiety over the direction and quality of one's life
- real-estate office — the place where a real-estate agent works
- reinforced plastic — plastic with fibrous matter, such as carbon fibre, embedded in it to confer additional strength
- resistance fighter — someone who fights (for freedom, etc) against an invader in an occupied country, or against their government, etc, often secretly or illegally
- sacrificial victim — a person who is ritually killed with the intention of propitiating or pleasing a deity
- sampling frequency — sample rate
- schofield barracks — a town on central Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- school certificate — (in England and Wales between 1917 and 1951 and currently in New Zealand) a certificate awarded to school pupils who pass a public examination: the equivalent of GCSE
- school for scandal — a comedy of manners (1777) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- scottish blackface — a common breed of hardy mountain sheep having horns and a black face, kept chiefly on the mainland of Scotland
- secondary offering — the sale of a large block of outstanding stock off the floor of an exchange, usually by a major stockholder.