15-letter words containing f, o, r, c, i, n
- radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
- re-notification — a formal notifying or informing.
- reality fiction — a satirical parody of a reality TV show
- recertification — the act of certifying.
- reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- reference point — a point used to find or describe the location of something
- refortification — the act or state of being refortified
- 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.
- respecification — the act of specifying.
- retroreflection — of or relating to a surface, material, or device (retroreflector) that reflects light or other radiation back to its source; reflective.
- revenue officer — a government agent responsible for administering and collecting taxes
- right-of-center — holding conservative views in politics; right-wing.
- right-of-centre — You can describe a person or political party as right-of-centre if they have political views which are closer to capitalism and conservatism than to socialism but which are not very extreme.
- 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.
- scolopendriform — resembling scolopendra
- self perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- self-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
- self-correcting — automatically adjusting to or correcting mistakes, malfunctions, etc.: a self-correcting mechanism.
- self-laceration — the result of lacerating; a rough, jagged tear.
- self-perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
- self-protection — protection of oneself or itself.
- self-reflection — the act of reflecting, as in casting back a light or heat, mirroring, or giving back or showing an image; the state of being reflected in this way.
- self-renouncing — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
- service uniform — a uniform for routine duties and service, as distinguished from work, dress, or full-dress uniforms.
- simple fraction — a ratio of two integers.
- station officer — a person who is in charge of a fire station
- stocking filler — A stocking filler is a small present that is suitable for putting in a Christmas stocking.
- strait of canso — a channel in Canada, between the Nova Scotia mainland and S Cape Breton Island
- superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
- surface tension — the elasticlike force existing in the surface of a body, especially a liquid, tending to minimize the area of the surface, caused by asymmetries in the intermolecular forces between surface molecules.
- tentaculiferous — having tentacles
- tetrafunctional — pertaining to molecules or groups that can bond at four sites.
- the crucifixion — the crucifying of Christ at Calvary, regarded by Christians as the culminating redemptive act of his ministry
- traffic control — management of road use
- traffic offence — a violation of traffic regulations, such as breaking the speed limit
- vector function — a function that assigns a vector to each point in a given set.
- video frequency — transmission frequency of the television picture.
- videoconference — a teleconference conducted via television equipment.
- viral infection — disease caused by a virus
- vulgar fraction — common fraction.
- warrant officer — (in the U.S. Armed Forces) an officer of one of four grades ranking above enlisted personnel and below commissioned officers.