15-letter words containing f, i, l, c
- full-cream milk — whole unskimmed milk
- functionability — functional (def 3).
- functional food — a food containing additives which provide extra nutritional value
- functional load — the relative frequency of occurrence of words that are differentiated in one and the same position by only one distinctive feature. In English, the opposition of voiced and voiceless th has a low functional load being used only to distinguish such pairs as ether and either, or wreath and wreathe.
- functional unit — A subsystem of the central processing unit of a computer. E.g. arithmetic and logic unit, memory address register, barrel shifter, register file.
- functionalistic — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- functionalities — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
- fungistatically — in a fungistatic manner
- fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
- gaelic football — an Irish game played with 15 players on each side and goals resembling rugby posts with a net on the bottom part. Players are allowed to kick, punch, and bounce the ball and attempt to get it over the bar or in the net
- 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.
- genetic fallacy — the fallacy of confusing questions of validity and logical order with questions of origin and temporal order.
- 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.
- gulf of corinth — an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnese and central Greece
- 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.
- holiday traffic — increased road traffic during holiday periods and public holidays
- hull efficiency — the ratio of the quantity of work required to tow a certain hull at a given speed to that required to drive it with a certain propeller: used in propeller design.
- hydraulic fluid — a fluid, usually of low viscosity, as oil, used in a hydraulic system.
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- in difficulties — in distress, esp. financially
- indefectibility — The quality of being indefectible.
- ineffaceability — Quality of being ineffaceable.
- ineffectualness — Inefficacy.
- inefficaciously — Without efficacy or effect.
- infants' school — kindergarten.
- infraclavicular — (anatomy) Below the clavicle.
- infrastructural — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
- insignificantly — Of such extremely small quantity or degree that it is not worth measuring.
- interfascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- interreflection — The illumination of an object by reflected light from other objects that are not light sources.
- intrafascicular — between the xylem and phloem elements of a vascular bundle
- kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
- latensification — (in photography) the process of intensifying a latent image by the use of chemicals, extra exposure to light, or other means
- latent function — any function of an institution or other social phenomenon that is unintentional and often unrecognized.
- latino-faliscan — a group of early Italic languages, including Latin and Faliscan.
- liaison officer — a person who liaises between groups or units
- lichenification — a leathery hardening of the skin, usually caused by chronic irritation.
- life expectancy — the probable number of years remaining in the life of an individual or class of persons determined statistically, affected by such factors as heredity, physical condition, nutrition, and occupation.
- lifestyle block — a semi-rural property comprising a house and land for small-scale farming
- limiting factor — Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
- line of descent — someone's line of descent is all the people they are descended from
- linear function — linear transformation.
- linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
- loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
- make capital of — to get advantage from