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15-letter words containing l, o, r, i, c, f

  • floating charge — an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral
  • floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
  • 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
  • florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
  • 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.
  • fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
  • friction clutch — a clutch in which one part turns another by friction between them.
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
  • gale-force wind — a wind of force seven to ten on the Beaufort scale or from 45 to 90 kilometres per hour
  • general officer — an officer ranking above colonel.
  • goal difference — the number of goals scored by a team minus the number of goals it has conceded
  • grecian profile — a profile distinguished by the absence of the hollow between the upper ridge of the nose and the forehead, thereby forming a straight line.
  • gulf of corinth — an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnese and central Greece
  • heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • holiday traffic — increased road traffic during holiday periods and public holidays
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • interreflection — The illumination of an object by reflected light from other objects that are not light sources.
  • kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
  • liaison officer — a person who liaises between groups or units
  • limiting factor — Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
  • linear function — linear transformation.
  • linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
  • loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
  • malconformation — Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; disproportion of parts.
  • medical officer — a doctor of medicine who serves in the armed forces in a medical capacity
  • microfiltration — Filtration through a microporous membrane.
  • microsoft excel — (tool)   A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world.
  • moccasin flower — the lady's-slipper.
  • molecular knife — a segment of genetic material that inhibits the reproduction of the AIDS virus by breaking up specific areas of the virus's genes.
  • multiple factor — polygene.
  • myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
  • nitrochloroform — chloropicrin.
  • non-rectifiable — able to be rectified.
  • nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
  • official strike — a collective stoppage of work by part or all of the workforce of an organization with the approval of the trade union concerned. The stoppage may be accompanied by the payment of strike pay by the trade union concerned
  • orderly officer — Military. officer of the day, as in the British army or, formerly, in the U.S. Army.
  • overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
  • passifloraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Passifloraceae, a tropical and subtropical family of climbing plants including the passionflowers: the flowers have five petals and threadlike parts forming a dense mass (corona) around the central disc
  • platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
  • price inflation — inflation fuelled by rising prices
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