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15-letter words containing f, r, c, o

  • 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.
  • change of heart — a profound change of outlook, opinion, etc
  • 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.
  • chief inspector — an officer of high rank in British police forces
  • 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
  • city of bristol — a port and industrial city in SW England, mainly in Bristol unitary authority, on the River Avon seven miles from its mouth on the Bristol Channel: a major port, trading with America, in the 17th and 18th centuries; the modern port consists chiefly of docks at Avonmouth and Portishead; noted for the Clifton Suspension Bridge (designed by I. K. Brunel, 1834) over the Avon gorge; Bristol university (1909) and University of the West of England (1992). Pop: 420 556 (2001)
  • clare of assisi — Saint. 1194–1253, Italian nun; founder of the Franciscan Order of Poor Clares. Feast day: Aug 11
  • clock frequency — clock rate
  • closed fracture — simple fracture.
  • clotting factor — any one of a group of substances, including factor VIII, the presence of which in the blood is essential for blood clotting to occur
  • cockfight chair — a chair designed to be sat on backward, having a bell seat and a crest rail that serves as an armrest.
  • coffee granules — instant coffee in the form of grains
  • coffee whitener — a milk substitute to put in coffee
  • coffee-coloured — having the colour of coffee; dark brown; light brown
  • cold-water flat — (formerly) an apartment provided with only cold running water, often in a building with no central heating.
  • collective farm — (chiefly in Communist countries) a farm or group of farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community
  • college of arms — any of several institutions in the United Kingdom having a royal charter to deal with matters of heraldry, grant armorial bearings, record and trace genealogies, etc
  • combined forces — the forces of two or more countries, fighting together
  • come up for air — rise to water's surface
  • comfort blanket — a blanket that a young child is very attached to
  • comfort station — a public lavatory and rest room
  • comfortableness — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
  • comfortably off — If someone is comfortably off, they have enough money to be able to live without financial problems.
  • comma butterfly — an orange-brown European vanessid butterfly, Polygonia c-album, with a white comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
  • common fraction — a fraction whose numerator and denominator are both whole numbers
  • company officer — a captain or lieutenant serving in a company.
  • compound flower — a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy
  • concern oneself — to busy oneself (with, about, over, in something); take an interest
  • confectionaries — a candy; sweetmeat.
  • confectioneries — Plural form of confectionery.
  • confederate war — the American Civil War.
  • conference call — A conference call is a phone call in which more than two people take part.
  • conference pear — a variety of pear that has sweet and juicy fruit
  • conference room — A conference room is a large room in a hotel where a number of people can have a conference.
  • configurability — The property of being configurable.
  • configurational — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • conformableness — The state or quality of being conformable.
  • confraternities — Plural form of confraternity.
  • confrontational — If you describe the way that someone behaves as confrontational, you are showing your disapproval of the fact that they are aggressive and likely to cause an argument or dispute.
  • congelifraction — the shattering or splitting of rock or frozen soil due to the action of frost.
  • continuous-form — of or relating to paper, blank forms, checks, etc., supplied in a folded stack or roll to a device, as a computer printer, generally with perforations between sheets for later separation and often with detachable punched edges used to advance the sheets through the device.
  • contour feather — any of the feathers that cover the body of an adult bird, apart from the wings and tail, and determine its shape
  • contraflow lane — a traffic lane whose normal direction is reversed temporarily
  • 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
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