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

  • 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
  • disinflationary — (economics) Exhibiting or causing reduced inflation.
  • electrification — The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • false miterwort — foamflower.
  • familiarisation — Alternative spelling of familiarization.
  • familiarization — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
  • family grouping — a system, used usually in the infant school, of grouping children of various ages together, esp for project work
  • fantasmagorical — Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
  • 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.
  • federal holiday — a day which is a national holiday at the behest of the Federal Government
  • 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 of honour — the place or scene of a battle or duel, esp of jousting tournaments in medieval times
  • field woundwort — the plant Stachys arvensis
  • fight-or-flight — denoting instinctive response
  • 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.
  • fireless cooker — an insulated container that seals in heat to cook food.
  • first world war — World War I.
  • five-star hotel — a top-quality hotel offering exceptional luxury
  • flamingo-flower — a central American plant, Anthurium scherzeranum, of the arum family, having a red, coiled spadix and a bright red, shiny, heart-shaped spathe, grown as an ornamental.
  • flapping router — (networking)   A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
  • flight recorder — an electronic device aboard an aircraft that automatically records some aspects of the aircraft's performance in flight.
  • flirtatiousness — The quality of being flirtatious.
  • floating charge — an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral
  • floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
  • flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
  • floor exercises — exercises designed to improve fitness, carried out on the floor
  • floral tributes — bunches or arrangements of flowers left as a memorial at the site of a fatal incident
  • florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
  • floriferousness — Quality of being floriferous, or bearing many flowers.
  • flow of spirits — natural happiness
  • flowerhorn fish — a brightly coloured cichlid fish with a large protuberance on the head
  • flowering maple — any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Abutilon, of the mallow family, having large, bright-colored flowers.
  • flowering plant — a plant that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds; angiosperm.
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • flowers of zinc — a white or yellowish-white, amorphous, odorless, water-insoluble powder, ZnO, used chiefly as a paint pigment, in cosmetics, dental cements, matches, white printing inks, and opaque glass, and in medicine in the treatment of skin conditions.
  • fluoridationist — One who supports the addition of fluoride to the public water supply.
  • fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
  • fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.
  • fluoroquinolone — Any of a class of therapeutic antibiotics that are active against a range of bacteria associated with human and animal diseases. Their use in livestock has sparked concerns about the spread of bacteria resistant to them in humans.
  • flying fortress — a heavy bomber, the B-17, with four radial piston engines, widely used over Europe and the Mediterranean by the U.S. Air Force in World War II.
  • fool's paradise — a state of enjoyment based on false beliefs or hopes; a state of illusory happiness.
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