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15-letter words containing f, y, c

  • family practice — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
  • ferroelasticity — (physics) A phenomenon, analogous to ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, in which spontaneous strain arises within a material.
  • fetch and carry — to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
  • fetishistically — in a fetishistic manner
  • fideicommissary — the recipient of a fideicommissum.
  • fiduciary issue — an issue of banknotes not backed by gold
  • fight city hall — to take up the apparently futile fight against petty or impersonal bureaucratic authority
  • finance company — an institution engaged in such specialized forms of financing as purchasing accounts receivable, extending credit to retailers and manufacturers, discounting installment contracts, and granting loans with goods as security.
  • first secretary — The First Secretary of the Welsh Assembly is the leader of the ruling party.
  • first-day cover — a cover marked so as to indicate that it was mailed on the first day of issue of the stamp it bears and from one of the cities at which the stamp was issued on that day.
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
  • flight of fancy — An idea or statement that is very imaginative but complicated, silly, or impractical can be referred to as a flight of fancy.
  • floating policy — (in marine insurance) a policy that provides protection of a broad nature for shipments of merchandise and that is valid continuously until canceled.
  • fly honeysuckle — either of two honeysuckle shrubs, Lonicera canadensis, of eastern North America, or L. xylosteum, of Eurasia, having paired yellowish flowers tinged with red.
  • flying characin — hatchetfish (def 2).
  • flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
  • food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
  • food technology — a branch of technology that is involved in the production of food
  • for a certainty — without doubt
  • frederick henry — 1584–1647, prince of Orange and count of Nassau; son of William (I) the Silent
  • frederick soddy — Frederick, 1877–1956, English chemist: Nobel prize 1921.
  • french mulberry — a shrub, Callicarpa americana, of the verbena family, of the south-central U.S. and the West Indies, having violet-colored fruit and bluish flowers.
  • frequency curve — a curve representing the frequency with which a variable assumes its values.
  • frontal cyclone — any extratropical cyclone associated with a front: the most common cyclonic storm.
  • fuel efficiency — the (least) amount of fuel used in proportion to the number of miles travelled
  • functionability — functional (def 3).
  • fungistatically — in a fungistatic manner
  • fuzzy computing — fuzzy logic
  • genetic fallacy — the fallacy of confusing questions of validity and logical order with questions of origin and temporal order.
  • gunnery officer — an officer in charge of heavy guns
  • hacking x for y — [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user. This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were always combined into a project description of the form "Hacking X for Y" (e.g. ""Hacking perceptrons for Minsky""). This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix plan files).
  • have itchy feet — to be restless; have a desire to travel
  • holiday traffic — increased road traffic during holiday periods and public holidays
  • hull efficiency — the ratio of the quantity of work required to tow a certain hull at a given speed to that required to drive it with a certain propeller: used in propeller design.
  • hydraulic fluid — a fluid, usually of low viscosity, as oil, used in a hydraulic system.
  • 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.
  • hyperweak force — a hypothetical force that transforms quarks into leptons and vice versa at high energies.
  • imperfect-rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
  • 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.
  • indefectibility — The quality of being indefectible.
  • ineffaceability — Quality of being ineffaceable.
  • inefficaciously — Without efficacy or effect.
  • insignificantly — Of such extremely small quantity or degree that it is not worth measuring.
  • legacy software — legacy system
  • life expectancy — the probable number of years remaining in the life of an individual or class of persons determined statistically, affected by such factors as heredity, physical condition, nutrition, and occupation.
  • lifestyle block — a semi-rural property comprising a house and land for small-scale farming
  • michael faraday — Michael, 1791–1867, English physicist and chemist: discoverer of electromagnetic induction.
  • monospecificity — the condition of being specific for a sole antigen
  • myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
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