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

  • infrastructures — Plural form of infrastructure.
  • interfascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • kaffeeklatscher — a person who participates, especially regularly, in a kaffee klatsch.
  • lake-of-lucerne — a canton in central Switzerland. 576 sq. mi. (1490 sq. km).
  • law-enforcement — of police, anti-crime
  • leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
  • legacy software — legacy system
  • liaison officer — a person who liaises between groups or units
  • linear function — linear transformation.
  • long-sufferance — long-suffering.
  • make certain of — to ensure (that one will get something); confirm
  • make tracks for — to go or head towards
  • man-made fabric — a type of fabric that is made artificially, such as polyester or rayon, rather than occurring naturally, like cotton or wool
  • marie de france — flourished 12th century, French poet in England.
  • medical officer — a doctor of medicine who serves in the armed forces in a medical capacity
  • michael faraday — Michael, 1791–1867, English physicist and chemist: discoverer of electromagnetic induction.
  • moccasin flower — the lady's-slipper.
  • 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.
  • narcotrafficker — One who traffics in illegal narcotics.
  • non-conformance — lack of conformity.
  • non-enforceable — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
  • non-manufacture — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • non-rectifiable — able to be rectified.
  • noncertificated — not possessing a certificate, not certified
  • not care a fuck — not to care at all
  • nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
  • ocean of storms — the largest of the dark plains (maria) on the surface of the moon, situated in the second and third quadrant
  • officer of arms — an officer with the duties of a herald, especially one charged with the devising, granting, or confirming of armorial bearings.
  • official strike — a collective stoppage of work by part or all of the workforce of an organization with the approval of the trade union concerned. The stoppage may be accompanied by the payment of strike pay by the trade union concerned
  • olfactory nerve — either one of the first pair of cranial nerves, consisting of sensory fibers that conduct to the brain the impulses from the mucous membranes of the nose.
  • on the track of — If you are on the track of someone or something, you are trying to find them, or find information about them.
  • order of canada — an order awarded to Canadians for outstanding achievement; established in 1967
  • 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.
  • pacific madrone — any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
  • parking offence — the act of leaving your car somewhere illegally
  • 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
  • passport office — an office which issues passports
  • peacock feather — a (distinctive and brightly coloured) feather from the peacock
  • perfect cadence — a cadence in which the tonic chord has its root in both bass and soprano.
  • perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
  • performance art — a collaborative art form originating in the 1970s as a fusion of several artistic media, as painting, film, video, music, drama, and dance, and deriving in part from the 1960s performance happenings.
  • performance car — a car that can go very fast and can increase its speed very quickly
  • personification — the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
  • photorefractive — of or relating to a change in the index of refraction by spatial variations of the light intensity, as in a laser.
  • picture-framing — the job of framing photos, paintings etc
  • pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
  • platform rocker — a rocking chair supported on a stationary base
  • platform scales — a weighing machine which has a platform that you put something on to be weighed
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