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15-letter words containing i, n, f, r

  • canadian forces — the official name for the military forces of Canada
  • canadian french — the French language as spoken in Canada, esp in Quebec
  • canning factory — a building or group of buildings containing a plant assembly where food is sealed in cans or tins to preserve it
  • cape finisterre — a headland in NW Spain: the westernmost point of the Spanish mainland
  • carbon fixation — the process by which plants assimilate carbon from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to form metabolically active compounds
  • cardinal flower — a campanulaceous plant, Lobelia cardinalis of E North America, that has brilliant scarlet, pink, or white flowers
  • catch (on) fire — to begin burning; ignite
  • central african — of or relating to the Central African Republic, its inhabitants, or their language.
  • centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
  • channel surfing — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
  • channel-surfing — Channel-surfing is the same as channel-hopping.
  • charles tiffany — Charles Lewis, 1812–1902, U.S. jeweler.
  • charm offensive — If you say that someone has launched a charm offensive, you disapprove of the fact that they are being very friendly to their opponents or people who are causing problems for them.
  • chesterfieldian — of or like Lord Chesterfield; suave; elegant; polished
  • chief inspector — an officer of high rank in British police forces
  • children of god — a highly disciplined, fundamentalist Christian sect, active especially in the early 1970s, whose mostly young converts live in communes.
  • circumferential — of, at, or near the circumference; surrounding; lying along the outskirts.
  • circumforaneous — moving around or abroad; roaming from place to place
  • clotting factor — any one of a group of substances, including factor VIII, the presence of which in the blood is essential for blood clotting to occur
  • coffee whitener — a milk substitute to put in coffee
  • combined forces — the forces of two or more countries, fighting together
  • comfort station — a public lavatory and rest room
  • common fraction — a fraction whose numerator and denominator are both whole numbers
  • company officer — a captain or lieutenant serving in a company.
  • confectionaries — a candy; sweetmeat.
  • confectioneries — Plural form of confectionery.
  • configurability — The property of being configurable.
  • configurational — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • corn-leaf aphid — a green aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis, widely distributed in the U.S.: a pest of corn and other grasses.
  • corporification — an act or the quality of embodying
  • counterfeisance — the act of counterfeiting
  • counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
  • cpu info center — (processor)   An old website at the University of California at Berkeley describing many different computers and their performance.
  • craftswomanship — The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
  • credit transfer — A credit transfer is a direct payment of money from one bank account into another.
  • creeping fescue — red fescue.
  • crossfunctional — Spanning several functions.
  • current affairs — If you refer to current affairs, you are referring to political events and problems in society which are discussed in newspapers, and on television and radio.
  • customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
  • decertification — The act or process of decertifying.
  • dedifferentiate — to undergo the process of dedifferentiation
  • deformalization — to make less formal; reduce the strictness, preciseness, etc., of.
  • defragmentation — (computing) The action of defragmenting, particularly with respect to a computer disk or drive.
  • 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.
  • desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
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