16-letter words containing f, e, c, o
- prespecification — the act of specifying.
- press conference — a prearranged interview with news reporters, held to elicit publicity or, as granted by a dignitary, public official, research scientist, etc., to fulfill a request from the press.
- proficiency test — an exam which test how proficient or skilled someone is in a particular activity, field of study, language, etc
- proof of concept — the stage during the development of a product when it is established that the product will function as intended
- pseudoscientific — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
- pull a long face — to look sad, glum, disapproving, etc.
- question of fact — a question concerning the reality of an alleged event or circumstance in a trial by jury, usually determined by the jury.
- rape of the lock — a mock-epic poem (1712) by Alexander Pope.
- rate of exchange — exchange rate.
- reclassification — categorization in a different way
- reconnection fee — an amount of money that a company charges customers in order to reconnect their supply of electricity, water, gas, or telephone after it has been stopped
- reflection plane — a plane through a crystal that divides the crystal into two halves that are mirror images of each other.
- refresher course — a study course serving as a review of previous education.
- refrigerator car — a freight car having either an ice chest or machinery for chilling perishables and sometimes having a heating unit to keep perishables from freezing.
- refuse collector — someone who collects of rubbish and waste, usually in a rubbish or refuse truck, before final disposal
- reidentification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
- releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
- rich text format — (RTF) An interchange format from Microsoft for exchange of documents between Word and other document preparation systems.
- right about face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
- safety-conscious — conscious of being safe and preventing danger
- sales conference — meeting of salespeople
- scheme of things — Someone's scheme of things is the way in which they think that things in their life should be organized.
- score points off — to gain an advantage at someone else's expense
- scotch blackface — one of a Scottish breed of mountain sheep having a black face and growing long, coarse wool.
- security officer — civilian, policeman or soldier who is responsible for security in a town or country
- self-complacency — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
- self-confinement — the act of confining.
- self-consequence — self-important character or quality; self-importance.
- self-constituted — constituted as such by oneself or itself
- self-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- self-containment — the state of being self-contained.
- self-cultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- self-deprecation — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
- self-deprecatory — belittling or undervaluing oneself; excessively modest.
- self-description — a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation.
- self-destruction — the destruction or ruination of oneself or one's life.
- self-enforcement — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
- self-exculpatory — intended to excuse oneself from blame or guilt
- self-explication — the act of explicating.
- self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
- self-preoccupied — preoccupied by one's own concerns
- self-proclaiming — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- self-pronouncing — having the pronunciation indicated, especially by diacritical marks added on original spellings rather than by phonetic symbols: a self-pronouncing dictionary.
- self-reproducing — to make a copy, representation, duplicate, or close imitation of: to reproduce a picture.
- self-resourceful — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
- self-restriction — something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.
- self-vindication — the act of vindicating.
- sit on the fence — to be unable or unwilling to commit oneself
- society of jesus — a member of a Roman Catholic religious order (Society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534.
- soft commodities — nonmetal commodities such as cocoa, sugar, and grains, bought and sold on a futures market