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15-letter words containing f, o, i, e

  • britneyfication — the effect on clothes and fashions of following the revealing styles favoured by the US pop singer Britney Spears (born 1981)
  • brownfield site — a disused site envisaged for redevelopment
  • buffalo soldier — (formerly, especially among American Indians) a black soldier.
  • buffer solution — a solution to which a salt of a weak acid or base has been added
  • bureau of mines — a division of the Department of the Interior, created in 1910, that studies the nation's mineral resources and inspects mines.
  • business office — the office where the financial transactions, bookkeeping, etc. for a firm or institution are carried on
  • caffe macchiato — a hot beverage consisting of espresso and a small amount of foamed milk.
  • california rose — a cultivated variety of a bindweed, Calystegia hederacea, having showy, double, rose-colored flowers.
  • calorific value — the quantity of heat produced by the complete combustion of a given mass of a fuel, usually expressed in joules per kilogram
  • canadian forces — the official name for the military forces of Canada
  • capital offence — a crime for which the death penalty is used
  • caprifoliaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caprifoliaceae, a family of N temperate shrubs, small trees, and climbers including honeysuckle, elder, and guelder-rose
  • cardinal flower — a campanulaceous plant, Lobelia cardinalis of E North America, that has brilliant scarlet, pink, or white flowers
  • careers officer — a person trained in giving vocational advice, esp to school leavers
  • catch (on) fire — to begin burning; ignite
  • cauliflower ear — permanent swelling and distortion of the external ear as the result of ruptures of the blood vessels: usually caused by blows received in boxing
  • cauliflowerette — a single floret from the head of a cauliflower.
  • cause of action — the facts alleged in a complaint, upon which is based the plaintiff's right to a legal remedy in a court of law
  • cavalry officer — an officer in a cavalry regiment
  • centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
  • charm offensive — If you say that someone has launched a charm offensive, you disapprove of the fact that they are being very friendly to their opponents or people who are causing problems for them.
  • chef de mission — the head of a diplomatic body
  • chest infection — a respiratory infection mainly affecting the chest
  • chief constable — A Chief Constable is the officer who is in charge of the police force in a particular county or area in Britain.
  • chief inspector — an officer of high rank in British police forces
  • chief of police — (in the US) the head of a regional or municipal police department
  • children of god — a highly disciplined, fundamentalist Christian sect, active especially in the early 1970s, whose mostly young converts live in communes.
  • cholecalciferol — a compound occurring naturally in fish-liver oils, used to treat rickets. Formula: C27H44O
  • circumforaneous — moving around or abroad; roaming from place to place
  • clare of assisi — Saint. 1194–1253, Italian nun; founder of the Franciscan Order of Poor Clares. Feast day: Aug 11
  • coffee whitener — a milk substitute to put in coffee
  • collective farm — (chiefly in Communist countries) a farm or group of farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community
  • colonial office — a government body that was set up to oversee the affairs of the British Empire colonies
  • combat fatigues — the uniform worn by soldiers when fighting
  • combined forces — the forces of two or more countries, fighting together
  • come up for air — rise to water's surface
  • common-law wife — a woman considered to be a man's wife after the couple have cohabited for several years
  • company officer — a captain or lieutenant serving in a company.
  • cone of silence — a space, in the shape of an inverted cone, above a radio beacon, in which there is a sharp reduction in the intensity of transmitted signals.
  • confectionaries — a candy; sweetmeat.
  • confectioneries — Plural form of confectionery.
  • confessionalism — the belief that a religion, esp Christianity, should have a set of essential doctrines to which members of that religion must adhere
  • confessionalist — an advocate of confessionalism
  • confidence game — A confidence game is the same as a confidence trick.
  • confidence test — (testing)   Tests to confirm that the results of a program lie within certain ranges according to the expected probability distribution.
  • confidence vote — a vote to clarify whether someone or something has the support of those present
  • confidentiality — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
  • confraternities — Plural form of confraternity.
  • congelifraction — the shattering or splitting of rock or frozen soil due to the action of frost.
  • contingency fee — a lawyer's fee that only becomes payable if the case is successful
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