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

  • denitrification — to remove nitrogen or nitrogen compounds from.
  • desertification — Desertification is the process by which a piece of land becomes dry, empty, and unsuitable for growing trees or crops on.
  • devitrification — The formation of small crystals in a glass as a result of slow cooling from the molten state.
  • disconfirmation — to prove to be invalid.
  • disconformities — Plural form of disconformity.
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • drift indicator — an instrument that indicates the amount of drift of an aircraft.
  • editor in chief — the policy-making executive or principal editor of a publishing house, publication, etc.
  • electrification — The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
  • existence proof — non-constructive proof
  • fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
  • 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.
  • factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
  • factory farming — Factory farming is a system of farming which involves keeping animals indoors, often with very little space, and giving them special foods so that they grow more quickly or produce more eggs or milk.
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • fantasmagorical — Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
  • fault tolerance — (architecture)   1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. The number of faults a system or component can withstand before normal operation is impaired.
  • fencepost error — 1. (Rarely "lamp-post error") A problem with the discrete equivalent of a boundary condition, often exhibited in programs by iterative loops. From the following problem: "If you build a fence 100 feet long with posts 10 feet apart, how many posts do you need?" (Either 9 or 11 is a better answer than the obvious 10). For example, suppose you have a long list or array of items, and want to process items m through n; how many items are there? The obvious answer is n - m, but that is off by one; the right answer is n - m + 1. The "obvious" formula exhibits a fencepost error. See also zeroth and note that not all off-by-one errors are fencepost errors. The game of Musical Chairs involves a catastrophic off-by-one error where N people try to sit in N - 1 chairs, but it's not a fencepost error. Fencepost errors come from counting things rather than the spaces between them, or vice versa, or by neglecting to consider whether one should count one or both ends of a row. 2. (Rare) An error induced by unexpected regularities in input values, which can (for instance) completely thwart a theoretically efficient binary tree or hash coding implementation. The error here involves the difference between expected and worst case behaviours of an algorithm.
  • fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
  • fission product — a nuclide produced either directly by nuclear fission or by the radioactive decay of such a nuclide
  • fission reactor — a nuclear reactor in which a fission reaction takes place
  • 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).
  • florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
  • flow of control — control flow
  • food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
  • for a certainty — without doubt
  • forensic expert — an expert in applying scientific, technical or medical knowledge to the purposes of law
  • formation dance — any dance in which a number of couples form a certain arrangement, such as two facing lines or a circle, and perform a series of figures within or based on that arrangement
  • forthcomingness — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
  • fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
  • fractional note — a banknote in a denomination smaller than the standard unit of currency
  • fractionalizing — Present participle of fractionalize.
  • frederick north — Christopher, pen name of John Wilson.
  • french overture — a short piece in three movements common in the 17th and 18th centuries
  • french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
  • french vermouth — a dry aromatic white wine
  • friction clutch — a clutch in which one part turns another by friction between them.
  • friend at court — a friend in a position of influence or power who may advance one's interests, especially a helpful person who is close to someone in authority.
  • frontal cyclone — any extratropical cyclone associated with a front: the most common cyclonic storm.
  • fructifications — Plural form of fructification.
  • granitification — the process or action of forming into granite
  • gulf of corinth — an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnese and central Greece
  • hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • in deference to — out of regard or respect for (a person or the person's position or wishes)
  • interferometric — Of or pertaining to interferometry or interferometers.
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • interreflection — The illumination of an object by reflected light from other objects that are not light sources.
  • law-enforcement — of police, anti-crime
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