15-letter words containing f, l, o
- control surface — a movable surface, such as a rudder, elevator, aileron, etc, that controls an aircraft or rocket
- 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.
- cornflower blue — a deep vivid blue, like that of the typical blooms of a cornflower
- cost of capital — The cost of capital is how much it costs to borrow money with interest or issue securities to raise money.
- counterfactuals — Plural form of counterfactual.
- 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.
- court of appeal — A Court of Appeal is a court which deals with appeals against legal judgments.
- court of claims — (in the US) a court that hears claims against the federal government
- cross of valour — the highest Canadian award for bravery
- cross-fertilize — to subject or be subjected to cross-fertilization
- crossfunctional — Spanning several functions.
- crown-of-jewels — an annual herb, Lopezia coronata, of Mexico, having lilac-colored flowers with a red base.
- crystalliferous — producing or containing crystals
- cyclone furnace — a furnace burning liquid or pulverized fuel in a whirling air column.
- daffodil yellow — a bright yellow colour
- day of the lord — Also called Day of Yahweh. (in Old Testament eschatology) a day of final judgment. Amos 5:18–21; Ezek. 30.
- deadman's float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
- dean of faculty — the president of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland
- decalcification — the act or process of decalcifying.
- declare oneself — to state strongly one's opinion
- defence counsel — a barrister or group of barristers responsible for defending someone on trial
- deflection yoke — an assembly of one or more coils through which a controlled current is passed to produce a magnetic field for deflecting a beam of electrons, as in a picture tube.
- deformalization — to make less formal; reduce the strictness, preciseness, etc., of.
- democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
- demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- dessertspoonful — You can refer to an amount of food resting on a dessertspoon as a dessertspoonful of food.
- desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
- dichroic filter — an optical colour filter operating on the principle of wave interference between closely spaced reflecting surfaces, rather than by colour absorption
- dinoflagellates — Plural form of dinoflagellate.
- disinflationary — (economics) Exhibiting or causing reduced inflation.
- do oneself well — to achieve success for oneself
- draft-mule work — drudgery
- draw oneself up — to assume a straighter posture; stand or sit straight
- droste-hulshoff — Annette Elisabeth Freiin von [ah-net-uh ey-lee-zah-bet frahy-in fuh n] /ɑˈnɛt ə eɪˈli zɑˌbɛt ˈfraɪ ɪn fən/ (Show IPA), 1797–1848, German poet.
- dysfunctionally — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- electrification — The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
- elephant's-foot — a monocotyledonous plant, Testudinaria elephantipes, of southern Africa, with a very large starchy tuberous stem, covered in corky scales: family Dioscoreaceae
- exemplification — The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
- explain oneself — to make clear what one means
- express oneself — to communicate one's thoughts or ideas
- factor analysis — the use of one of several methods for reducing a set of variables to a lesser number of new variables, each of which is a function of one or more of the original variables.
- faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
- fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
- 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.
- fall cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
- fall from grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
- fallout shelter — protective bunker