15-letter words containing f, y, c
- non-specificity — the quality or state of being specific.
- nonspecifically — in a nonspecific way
- official family — the executives or officials chiefly responsible for the operation of an organization or government.
- olfactory nerve — either one of the first pair of cranial nerves, consisting of sensory fibers that conduct to the brain the impulses from the mucous membranes of the nose.
- olfactory tract — a long narrow triangular band of white tissue originating in the olfactory bulb and extending back to the point at which its fibres enter the base of the cerebrum
- orderly officer — Military. officer of the day, as in the British army or, formerly, in the U.S. Army.
- overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
- pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
- play kissy-face — to engage in kissing, caressing, etc., esp. overtly or publicly
- popeye catalufa — See under catalufa.
- radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
- reality fiction — a satirical parody of a reality TV show
- redial facility — a means of dialling a number again by pressing a button
- refectory table — a long, narrow table having a single stretcher between trestlelike supports at the ends.
- registry office — a government office and depository in which records and civil registers are kept and civil marriages performed.
- rockrose family — the plant family Cistaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually opposite leaves, solitary or clustered flowers, and capsular fruit, and including the frostweed, pinweed, and rockrose.
- royal air force — aerial branch of British military
- schottky defect — an unoccupied position in a crystal lattice caused by the relocation of an atom or ion from the interior to the surface of the crystal.
- schottky effect — a reduction in the energy required to remove an electron from a solid surface in a vacuum when an electric field is applied to the surface
- security forces — police or soldiers responsible for maintaining security
- self-analytical — the application of psychoanalytic techniques and theories to an analysis of one's own personality and behavior, especially without the aid of a psychiatrist or other trained person.
- self-rectifying — to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct: He sent them a check to rectify his account.
- significatively — serving to signify.
- sister of mercy — a member of a congregation of sisters founded in Dublin in 1827 by Catherine McAuley (1787–1841) and engaged chiefly in works of spiritual and corporal mercy.
- sticky-fingered — given to thieving
- summary offence — an offence that is triable in a magistrates' court
- superefficiency — the quality or condition of being superefficient
- surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
- syllabification — to form or divide into syllables.
- syngeneic graft — a tissue or organ transplanted from one member of a species to another, genetically identical member of the species, as a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to the other.
- the confederacy — the league of Southern states that seceded from the U.S. in 1860 & 1861; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex., & Va.
- the-city-of-god — Latin De Civitate Dei. a work in 22 books (a.d. 413–26) by St. Augustine of Hippo, expounding an early Christian view of society and history.
- to fly the coop — If you say that someone has flown the coop, you mean that they have left a place or situation that limits their freedom.
- tray classifier — A tray classifier is a tank for leaching from a dispersed solid, in which pulp at the bottom of the tank is raked (= moved to the exit) while solvent is forced toward the bottom of the tank.
- under-frequency — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
- video frequency — transmission frequency of the television picture.
- yeast infection — candida: genital inflammation