19-letter words containing f, o, u, r, c
- succession of crops — the continuous cultivation of a crop throughout a season by successive plantings or by the use of varieties with different rates of growth.
- take one's cue from — If you take your cue from someone or something, you do something similar in a particular situation.
- the four corners of — You can use expressions such as the four corners of the world to refer to places that are a long way from each other.
- to come full circle — If you say that you have come full circle or have turned full circle, you mean that after a long series of events or changes the same situation that you started with still exists.
- to the prejudice of — to the detriment of
- traffic regulations — rules designed to expedite the flow of traffic and prevent collisions
- turn of the century — point when one century becomes another
- upper carboniferous — Pennsylvanian (defs 2, 4).
- vacuum coffee maker — a coffee pot with upper and lower glass units, the upper for ground coffee and the lower for water that, when boiled, rises through the filter-stoppered bottom of the upper unit and remains there until drawn back down to the lower unit as brewed coffee by a reduction in pressure caused by the removal of heat.
- with flying colours — If you pass a test with flying colours, you have done very well in the test.