15-letter words containing f, e, n, t, o
- comfortableness — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
- confectionaries — a candy; sweetmeat.
- confectioneries — Plural form of confectionery.
- confederate war — the American Civil War.
- confessionalist — an advocate of confessionalism
- confidence test — (testing) Tests to confirm that the results of a program lie within certain ranges according to the expected probability distribution.
- confidence vote — a vote to clarify whether someone or something has the support of those present
- confidentiality — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
- confraternities — Plural form of confraternity.
- congelifraction — the shattering or splitting of rock or frozen soil due to the action of frost.
- contingency fee — a lawyer's fee that only becomes payable if the case is successful
- contour feather — any of the feathers that cover the body of an adult bird, apart from the wings and tail, and determine its shape
- 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
- cosignificative — having the same meaning or sense
- counterfactuals — Plural form of counterfactual.
- counterfeisance — the act of counterfeiting
- 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.
- counterreformer — a reformer who acts in opposition to another reform
- cpu info center — (processor) An old website at the University of California at Berkeley describing many different computers and their performance.
- customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
- day of judgment — Judgment Day
- deacidification — a procedure that is carried out to lessen the level of acid present in paper
- deadman's float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
- dean of faculty — the president of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland
- debathification — The process of removing former members of the ruling Bath party of Iraq from the military and civil office following the ousting of w Saddam Hussein.
- decalcification — the act or process of decalcifying.
- decertification — The act or process of decertifying.
- defining moment — a point at which the essential nature or character of a person, group, etc., is revealed or identified.
- definitive host — the organism on or in which a parasite lives in the adult stage
- deflection yoke — an assembly of one or more coils through which a controlled current is passed to produce a magnetic field for deflecting a beam of electrons, as in a picture tube.
- deformalization — to make less formal; reduce the strictness, preciseness, etc., of.
- defragmentation — (computing) The action of defragmenting, particularly with respect to a computer disk or drive.
- defunct process — zombie process
- demassification — to cause (society or a social system) to become less uniform or centralized; diversify or decentralize: to demassify the federal government.
- demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- demystification — to rid of mystery or obscurity; clarify: to demystify medical procedures.
- demythification — the act of demythifying
- denitrification — to remove nitrogen or nitrogen compounds from.
- desertification — Desertification is the process by which a piece of land becomes dry, empty, and unsuitable for growing trees or crops on.
- despecification — The act of generalizing, or making less specific.
- dessertspoonful — You can refer to an amount of food resting on a dessertspoon as a dessertspoonful of food.
- desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
- devitrification — The formation of small crystals in a glass as a result of slow cooling from the molten state.
- dezincification — removal of zinc.
- differentiation — Biology. the process by which cells or tissues change from relatively generalized to specialized kinds, during development.
- differentiators — Plural form of differentiator.
- dinoflagellates — Plural form of dinoflagellate.
- disaffectionate — not affectionate
- disconformities — Plural form of disconformity.