15-letter words containing f, i, l, c
- malconformation — Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; disproportion of parts.
- 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.
- microfiltration — Filtration through a microporous membrane.
- 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.
- multifunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- multiple factor — polygene.
- myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
- nitrochloroform — chloropicrin.
- non-conflicting — being in conflict or disagreement; not compatible: conflicting viewpoints.
- non-rectifiable — able to be rectified.
- nonconfidential — not confidential
- noninflectional — not inflectional
- nonspecifically — in a nonspecific way
- nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
- office building — building containing offices
- office politics — power play in the workplace
- official family — the executives or officials chiefly responsible for the operation of an organization or government.
- 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
- oil of the sick — holy oil used in the sacrament of extreme unction.
- orderly officer — Military. officer of the day, as in the British army or, formerly, in the U.S. Army.
- oval of cassini — the locus of a point such that the product of the distances from the point to two fixed points is constant.
- overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
- pacific islands — a U.S. trust territory in the Pacific Ocean, comprising the Mariana, Marshall, and Caroline Islands: approved by the United Nations 1947; since 1976 constituents of the trusteeship have established or moved toward self-government. 717 sq. mi. (1857 sq. km).
- 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
- pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
- platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
- play kissy-face — to engage in kissing, caressing, etc., esp. overtly or publicly
- pontifical mass — (sometimes lowercase) Roman Catholic Church. a High Mass celebrated by a bishop or other prelate.
- price inflation — inflation fuelled by rising prices
- prince of wales — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
- principal focus — focal point (def 1).
- public defender — a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
- public footpath — a footpath along which the public has right of way
- public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- reality fiction — a satirical parody of a reality TV show
- redfin pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
- redial facility — a means of dialling a number again by pressing a button
- refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
- religion of chi — /ki:/ [Case Western Reserve University] Yet another hackish parody religion (see also Church of the SubGenius, Discordianism). In the mid-70s, the canonical "Introduction to Programming" courses at CWRU were taught in ALGOL, and student exercises were punched on cards and run on a Univac 1108 system using a homebrew operating system named CHI. The religion had no doctrines and but one ritual: whenever the worshipper noted that a digital clock read 11:08, he or she would recite the phrase "It is 11:08; ABS, ALPHABETIC, ARCSIN, ARCCOS, ARCTAN." The last five words were the first five functions in the appropriate chapter of the ALGOL manual; note the special pronunciations /obz/ and /ark'sin/ rather than the more common /ahbz/ and /ark'si:n/. Using an alarm clock to warn of 11:08's arrival was considered harmful.
- requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
- retroreflection — of or relating to a surface, material, or device (retroreflector) that reflects light or other radiation back to its source; reflective.
- retroreflective — of or relating to a surface, material, or device (retroreflector) that reflects light or other radiation back to its source; reflective.
- rockrose family — the plant family Cistaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually opposite leaves, solitary or clustered flowers, and capsular fruit, and including the frostweed, pinweed, and rockrose.
- ronne ice shelf — an ice barrier in Antarctica, in SW Weddell Sea, bordered by Ellsworth Land on the NW and Berkner Island on the E.
- royal air force — aerial branch of British military
- schlieffen plan — a plan intended to ensure German victory over a Franco-Russian alliance by holding off Russia with minimal strength and swiftly defeating France by a massive flanking movement through the Low Countries, devised by Alfred, Count von Schlieffen (1833–1913) in 1905
- scolopendriform — resembling scolopendra