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15-letter words containing f, i, e

  • capital offence — a crime for which the death penalty is used
  • caprifoliaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caprifoliaceae, a family of N temperate shrubs, small trees, and climbers including honeysuckle, elder, and guelder-rose
  • cardinal flower — a campanulaceous plant, Lobelia cardinalis of E North America, that has brilliant scarlet, pink, or white flowers
  • careers officer — a person trained in giving vocational advice, esp to school leavers
  • catch (on) fire — to begin burning; ignite
  • cauliflower ear — permanent swelling and distortion of the external ear as the result of ruptures of the blood vessels: usually caused by blows received in boxing
  • cauliflowerette — a single floret from the head of a cauliflower.
  • cause of action — the facts alleged in a complaint, upon which is based the plaintiff's right to a legal remedy in a court of law
  • caustic surface — a surface that envelopes the light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface
  • cavalry officer — an officer in a cavalry regiment
  • central african — of or relating to the Central African Republic, its inhabitants, or their language.
  • centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
  • certified check — A certified check is a check that is guaranteed by a bank, because the bank has set aside sufficient money in the account.
  • channel catfish — a food fish, Ictalurus punctatus, common in fresh waters throughout central U.S.
  • channel surfing — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
  • channel-surfing — Channel-surfing is the same as channel-hopping.
  • charles tiffany — Charles Lewis, 1812–1902, U.S. jeweler.
  • charm offensive — If you say that someone has launched a charm offensive, you disapprove of the fact that they are being very friendly to their opponents or people who are causing problems for them.
  • chef de cuisine — chef (def 1).
  • chef de mission — the head of a diplomatic body
  • chest infection — a respiratory infection mainly affecting the chest
  • chesterfieldian — of or like Lord Chesterfield; suave; elegant; polished
  • cheval de frise — a portable obstacle, usually a sawhorse, covered with projecting spikes or barbed wire, for military use in closing a passage, breaking in a defensive wall, etc.
  • cheval-de-frise — a portable barrier of spikes, sword blades, etc, used to obstruct the passage of cavalry
  • chewings fescue — a hardy, fine-leaved variety of fescue, Festuca rubra commutata, grown in the U.S. and New Zealand as a lawn grass.
  • chief assistant — the most important or top-ranking assistant to an official
  • chief constable — A Chief Constable is the officer who is in charge of the police force in a particular county or area in Britain.
  • chief executive — the person with overall responsibility for the efficient running of a company, organization, etc
  • chief inspector — an officer of high rank in British police forces
  • chief of police — (in the US) the head of a regional or municipal police department
  • chief secretary — (in Britain) the second most senior Treasury post, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • children of god — a highly disciplined, fundamentalist Christian sect, active especially in the early 1970s, whose mostly young converts live in communes.
  • chilling effect — a discouraging or deterring effect, especially one resulting from a restrictive law or regulation.
  • cholecalciferol — a compound occurring naturally in fish-liver oils, used to treat rickets. Formula: C27H44O
  • circular buffer — (programming)   An area of memory used to store a continuous stream of data by starting again at the beginning of the buffer after reaching the end. A circular buffer is usually written by one process and read by another. Separate read and write pointers are maintained. These are not allowed to pass each other otherwise either unread data would be overwritten or invalid data would be read. A circuit may implement a hardware circular buffer.
  • circumferential — of, at, or near the circumference; surrounding; lying along the outskirts.
  • circumforaneous — moving around or abroad; roaming from place to place
  • citrus whitefly — See under whitefly.
  • clare of assisi — Saint. 1194–1253, Italian nun; founder of the Franciscan Order of Poor Clares. Feast day: Aug 11
  • coffee whitener — a milk substitute to put in coffee
  • collective farm — (chiefly in Communist countries) a farm or group of farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community
  • colonial office — a government body that was set up to oversee the affairs of the British Empire colonies
  • combat fatigues — the uniform worn by soldiers when fighting
  • combined forces — the forces of two or more countries, fighting together
  • come up for air — rise to water's surface
  • common-law wife — a woman considered to be a man's wife after the couple have cohabited for several years
  • company officer — a captain or lieutenant serving in a company.
  • cone of silence — a space, in the shape of an inverted cone, above a radio beacon, in which there is a sharp reduction in the intensity of transmitted signals.
  • confectionaries — a candy; sweetmeat.
  • confectioneries — Plural form of confectionery.
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