15-letter words containing f, l, e, c
- 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
- line of descent — someone's line of descent is all the people they are descended from
- linear function — linear transformation.
- loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
- long-sufferance — long-suffering.
- make capital of — to get advantage from
- 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.
- 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.
- non-enforceable — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
- 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 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.
- olfactory nerve — either one of the first pair of cranial nerves, consisting of sensory fibers that conduct to the brain the impulses from the mucous membranes of the nose.
- orderly officer — Military. officer of the day, as in the British army or, formerly, in the U.S. Army.
- overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
- 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
- pendulum effect — Also called pendulum law. Physics. a law, discovered by Galileo in 1602, that describes the regular, swinging motion of a pendulum by the action of gravity and acquired momentum.
- perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
- person of color — the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
- pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
- platform rocker — a rocking chair supported on a stationary base
- platform scales — a weighing machine which has a platform that you put something on to be weighed
- 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
- popeye catalufa — See under catalufa.
- prenflo process — The PRENFLO process is a gasification process to convert substances such as oil, gas, coal, and refinery residue into synthetic gas.
- 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).
- 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 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.
- rape of lucrece — a narrative poem (1594) by Shakespeare.
- 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
- refectory table — a long, narrow table having a single stretcher between trestlelike supports at the ends.
- 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.
- research fellow — A research fellow is a member of an academic institution whose job is to do research.