15-letter words containing f, u, r, n, c
- frequency curve — a curve representing the frequency with which a variable assumes its values.
- 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.
- fructifications — Plural form of fructification.
- funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
- gulf of corinth — an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnese and central Greece
- gunnery officer — an officer in charge of heavy guns
- holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
- 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.
- inch of mercury — a unit of atmospheric pressure, being the pressure equal to that exerted by a column of mercury one inch high under standard conditions of temperature and gravity: 33.864 millibars. Abbreviation: in. Hg.
- infraclavicular — (anatomy) Below the clavicle.
- infrastructural — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
- infrastructures — Plural form of infrastructure.
- interfascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- intrafascicular — between the xylem and phloem elements of a vascular bundle
- lake-of-lucerne — a canton in central Switzerland. 576 sq. mi. (1490 sq. km).
- linear function — linear transformation.
- linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
- long-sufferance — long-suffering.
- member function — A method in C++.
- microcentrifuge — A centrifuge used in laboratories to separate materials from small samples (especially of biological material).
- molecular knife — a segment of genetic material that inhibits the reproduction of the AIDS virus by breaking up specific areas of the virus's genes.
- neuroscientific — the field of study encompassing the various scientific disciplines dealing with the structure, development, function, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system.
- non-manufacture — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- not care a fuck — not to care at all
- nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
- perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
- perfunctoriness — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- picture-framing — the job of framing photos, paintings etc
- premanufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- principal focus — focal point (def 1).
- proper function — eigenfunction.
- public defender — a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
- public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- puffin crossing — a UK pedestrian road crossing with traffic lights signalling red to stop the traffic flow when pedestrians are seen on the crossing by infrared detectors. The green signal reappears when no pedestrians are seen on the crossing
- purified cotton — bleached and sterilized cotton from which the gross impurities, such as the seeds and waxy matter, have been removed: used for surgical dressings, tampons, etc
- radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
- reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- recurrent fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
- reference group — a group with which an individual identifies and whose values the individual accepts as guiding principles.
- requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
- resourcefulness — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
- retrofocus lens — a wide-angle lens, for use on single-lens reflex cameras, of inverted telephoto design, with a back focus greater than the focal length.
- revenue officer — a government agent responsible for administering and collecting taxes
- riemann surface — a geometric representation of a function of a complex variable in which a multiple-valued function is depicted as a single-valued function on several planes, the planes being connected at some of the points at which the function takes on more than one value.
- self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
- self-renouncing — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
- semimanufacture — a product which forms an intermediate stage in the manufacture of another, often more complex product