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15-letter words containing f

  • colonial office — a government body that was set up to oversee the affairs of the British Empire colonies
  • combat fatigues — the uniform worn by soldiers when fighting
  • combined forces — the forces of two or more countries, fighting together
  • come to oneself — to recover one's senses
  • 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
  • commodification — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
  • common fraction — a fraction whose numerator and denominator are both whole numbers
  • common-law wife — a woman considered to be a man's wife after the couple have cohabited for several years
  • 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
  • cone of silence — a space, in the shape of an inverted cone, above a radio beacon, in which there is a sharp reduction in the intensity of transmitted signals.
  • 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.
  • confessionalism — the belief that a religion, esp Christianity, should have a set of essential doctrines to which members of that religion must adhere
  • confessionalist — an advocate of confessionalism
  • confidence game — A confidence game is the same as a confidence trick.
  • confidence test — (testing)   Tests to confirm that the results of a program lie within certain ranges according to the expected probability distribution.
  • confidence vote — a vote to clarify whether someone or something has the support of those present
  • confidentiality — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
  • 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.
  • consonant shift — a change, or a set of connected changes, in the articulation of consonants in any language or family of languages
  • contingency fee — a lawyer's fee that only becomes payable if the case is successful
  • 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
  • corporification — an act or the quality of embodying
  • cosignificative — having the same meaning or sense
  • cost of capital — The cost of capital is how much it costs to borrow money with interest or issue securities to raise money.
  • counterfactuals — Plural form of counterfactual.
  • counterfeisance — the act of counterfeiting
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