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15-letter words containing l, c

  • flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
  • floor exercises — exercises designed to improve fitness, carried out on the floor
  • florence fennel — a variety of fennel, Foeniculum vulgare azoricum, having enlarged leaf bases, which are blanched and used especially as an ingredient in salads.
  • florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
  • flow of control — control flow
  • flowers of zinc — a white or yellowish-white, amorphous, odorless, water-insoluble powder, ZnO, used chiefly as a paint pigment, in cosmetics, dental cements, matches, white printing inks, and opaque glass, and in medicine in the treatment of skin conditions.
  • fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter.
  • fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.
  • 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.
  • focal infection — an infection in which bacteria are localized in some region, as the tonsils or the tissue around a tooth, from which they may spread to some other organ or structure of the body.
  • food technology — a branch of technology that is involved in the production of food
  • foolscap octavo — a book size, 41⁄4 by 63⁄4 inches
  • foolscap quarto — a book size, 63⁄4 by 81⁄2 inches (foolscap quarto)
  • forecastle deck — a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; topgallant forecastle.
  • forecastle head — the extreme fore part of a forecastle superstructure.
  • fork-lift truck — Also called forklift truck, fork truck. a small vehicle with two power-operated prongs at the front that can be slid under heavy loads and then raised for moving and stacking materials in warehouses, shipping depots, etc.
  • formal calculus — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
  • forward echelon — (in a military operation) the troops and officers in a combat zone or in a position to engage the enemy.
  • four-ball match — a match, scored by holes, between two pairs of players, in which the four players tee off and the partners alternate in hitting the pair's ball having the better lie off the tee.
  • fourth official — In football, the fourth official is an official who assists the referee and assistant referees from the side of the pitch.
  • fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
  • fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
  • fractional note — a banknote in a denomination smaller than the standard unit of currency
  • fractionalizing — Present participle of fractionalize.
  • franklin pierce — Franklin, 1804–69, 14th president of the U.S. 1853–57.
  • french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
  • 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.
  • french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
  • friction clutch — a clutch in which one part turns another by friction between them.
  • 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
  • full-cream milk — whole unskimmed milk
  • functionability — functional (def 3).
  • functional food — a food containing additives which provide extra nutritional value
  • functional load — the relative frequency of occurrence of words that are differentiated in one and the same position by only one distinctive feature. In English, the opposition of voiced and voiceless th has a low functional load being used only to distinguish such pairs as ether and either, or wreath and wreathe.
  • functional unit — A subsystem of the central processing unit of a computer. E.g. arithmetic and logic unit, memory address register, barrel shifter, register file.
  • functionalistic — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • functionalities — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
  • fungistatically — in a fungistatic manner
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
  • gaelic football — an Irish game played with 15 players on each side and goals resembling rugby posts with a net on the bottom part. Players are allowed to kick, punch, and bounce the ball and attempt to get it over the bar or in the net
  • galactic nebula — a nebula in the Milky Way.
  • gale-force wind — a wind of force seven to ten on the Beaufort scale or from 45 to 90 kilometres per hour
  • galvanic couple — voltaic couple.
  • galvanomagnetic — of or relating to the creation of an electromagnetic field within a conductor, as a metal, or a semiconductor through which an electric current is passed.
  • garbage collect — garbage collection
  • gas oil contact — In a reservoir, gas oil contact is the area containing a mix of gas and oil, below which there is mainly oil and above which there is mainly gas.
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