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15-letter words containing f, e, r, o, c, i

  • frederick soddy — Frederick, 1877–1956, English chemist: Nobel prize 1921.
  • french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
  • 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.
  • frigidoreceptor — a receptor stimulated by cold.
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
  • fusospirochetes — Plural form of fusospirochete.
  • gale-force wind — a wind of force seven to ten on the Beaufort scale or from 45 to 90 kilometres per hour
  • general officer — an officer ranking above colonel.
  • goal difference — the number of goals scored by a team minus the number of goals it has conceded
  • grecian profile — a profile distinguished by the absence of the hollow between the upper ridge of the nose and the forehead, thereby forming a straight line.
  • gunnery officer — an officer in charge of heavy guns
  • heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • in deference to — out of regard or respect for (a person or the person's position or wishes)
  • inch of mercury — a unit of atmospheric pressure, being the pressure equal to that exerted by a column of mercury one inch high under standard conditions of temperature and gravity: 33.864 millibars. Abbreviation: in. Hg.
  • infoword office — (tool)   A suite of applications for Unix including a word processor, spreadsheet and database.
  • interferometric — Of or pertaining to interferometry or interferometers.
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • interreflection — The illumination of an object by reflected light from other objects that are not light sources.
  • irrespective of — regardless of sth
  • liaison officer — a person who liaises between groups or units
  • linear function — linear transformation.
  • loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
  • make certain of — to ensure (that one will get something); confirm
  • medical officer — a doctor of medicine who serves in the armed forces in a medical capacity
  • member function — A method in C++.
  • microcentrifuge — A centrifuge used in laboratories to separate materials from small samples (especially of biological material).
  • microsoft excel — (tool)   A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world.
  • 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.
  • neuroscientific — the field of study encompassing the various scientific disciplines dealing with the structure, development, function, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system.
  • non-rectifiable — able to be rectified.
  • noncertificated — not possessing a certificate, not certified
  • nonconformities — Plural form of nonconformity.
  • noninterference — the policy or practice of refraining from interference, especially in political affairs.
  • nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
  • 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
  • orderly officer — Military. officer of the day, as in the British army or, formerly, in the U.S. Army.
  • 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.
  • over-confidence — too confident.
  • overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
  • 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
  • perfectionistic — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
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