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15-letter words containing f, i, r, e, l

  • clare of assisi — Saint. 1194–1253, Italian nun; founder of the Franciscan Order of Poor Clares. Feast day: Aug 11
  • collective farm — (chiefly in Communist countries) a farm or group of farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community
  • congelifraction — the shattering or splitting of rock or frozen soil due to the action of frost.
  • coolgardie safe — a cupboard with wetted hessian walls for keeping food cool: used esp in Australia
  • coriolis effect — a deflection in the path of a body moving in latitude relative to the Earth when observed from the Earth. The deflection is due to the Earth's rotation and is to the east when the motion is towards a pole
  • corn-leaf aphid — a green aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis, widely distributed in the U.S.: a pest of corn and other grasses.
  • counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
  • cross-fertilize — to subject or be subjected to cross-fertilization
  • crystalliferous — producing or containing crystals
  • deerfield beach — a town in S Florida.
  • deformalization — to make less formal; reduce the strictness, preciseness, etc., of.
  • democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
  • desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
  • dexfenfluramine — an adrenergic drug, a form of fenfluramine, formerly used in treating obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
  • dichroic filter — an optical colour filter operating on the principle of wave interference between closely spaced reflecting surfaces, rather than by colour absorption
  • disaster relief — financial or physical help provided to people or areas hit by a disaster
  • disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
  • disrespectfully — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
  • distressfulness — The state or quality of being distressful; the state of having or causing anxiety or strain.
  • distrustfulness — The state or quality of being distrustful or doubtful; distrust; mistrust.
  • early saxifrage — an eastern North American plant, Saxifraga virginiensis, of the saxifrage family, having toothed basal leaves and branched clusters of small white flowers.
  • electrification — The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
  • enfant terrible — If you describe someone as an enfant terrible, you mean that they are clever but unconventional, and often cause problems or embarrassment for their friends or families.
  • facile princeps — an obvious leader
  • faint-heartedly — nervously
  • fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
  • falling weather — wet weather, as rain or snow.
  • false miterwort — foamflower.
  • family practice — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
  • fauntleroy suit — a formal outfit for a boy composed of a hip-length jacket and knee-length pants, often in black velvet, and a wide, lacy collar and cuffs, usually worn with a broad sash at the waist and sometimes a large, loose bow at the neck, popular in the late 19th century.
  • feature article — a feature article in a newspaper or magazine deals in depth with a topic or person
  • federal holiday — a day which is a national holiday at the behest of the Federal Government
  • ferranti f100-l — (processor)   A processor, with 16-bit addressing, registers and data paths and a 1-bit serial ALU. The F100-L could only access 32K of memory (one address bit was used for indirection). It was designed by a British company for the British Military. The unique feature of the F100-L was that it had a complete control bus available for a coprocessor. Any instruction the F100-L couldn't decode was sent directly to the coprocessor for processing. Applications for coprocessors at the time were limited, but the design is still used in modern processors, such as the National Semiconductor 32000 series. The disk operating system was written by Alec Cawley.
  • ferric chloride — a compound that in its anhydrous form, FeCl 3 , occurs as a black-brown, water-soluble solid; in its hydrated form, FeCl 3 ⋅xH 2 O, it occurs in orange-yellow, deliquescent crystals: used chiefly in engraving, for deodorizing sewage, as a mordant, and in medicine as an astringent and styptic.
  • ferrihemoglobin — methemoglobin.
  • ferroelasticity — (physics) A phenomenon, analogous to ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, in which spontaneous strain arises within a material.
  • ferrous sulfide — a dark or black metallic crystalline compound, FeS, insoluble in water, soluble in acids, used in ceramics and to generate hydrogen sulfide.
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
  • field artillery — artillery mobile enough to accompany troops in the field.
  • field of honour — the place or scene of a battle or duel, esp of jousting tournaments in medieval times
  • field woundwort — the plant Stachys arvensis
  • file descriptor — (programming, operating system)   An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
  • filemaker, inc. — (company)   The company that distributes the FileMaker database. FileMaker, Inc. was previously known as Claris and was renamed after a restructuring in January 1998.
  • fillister plane — an adjustable plane for cutting rabbets, grooves, etc
  • finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
  • finger spelling — a method of communicating with or among deaf people in which different shapes made with the fingers represent different letters of the alphabet
  • fireless cooker — an insulated container that seals in heat to cook food.
  • first gentleman — (often initial capital letters) the husband of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
  • first principle — any axiom, law, or abstraction assumed and regarded as representing the highest possible degree of generalization.
  • five-star hotel — a top-quality hotel offering exceptional luxury
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