15-letter words containing n, f, c
- a false economy — If you describe an attempt to save money as a false economy, you mean that you have not saved any money as you will have to spend a lot more later.
- absence of mind — distraction; forgetfulness
- acanthus family — the plant family Acanthaceae, typified by tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple opposite leaves, clusters of tubular bracted flowers, and seeds sometimes dispersed by exploding fruit, including the acanthus, caricature, and shrimp plant.
- accounting file — (operating system) A file which holds records of the resources used by individual jobs. These records are used to regulate, and calculate charges for, resources. An entry is opened in the accounting file as each job begins.
- act of congress — a law that has been passed by both houses of the US Congress and signed by the president; if the president has chosen to veto the bill, it can be passed by a two-thirds majority in Congress
- african buffalo — Cape buffalo.
- africanized bee — a hybrid of African and European honeybees, developed in Brazil and known for its disease resistance and superior honey production
- afternoon watch — the watch from noon until 4 p.m.
- aircraft hangar — a large workshop or building for storing and maintaining aircraft
- alta california — a former Spanish colony of New Spain, in the modern-day states of California, Nevada, and N Arizona: ceded by Mexico to the United States 1848.
- ancient of days — a name for God, originating in the Authorized Version of the Old Testament (Daniel 7:9)
- andrew of crete — a.d. c650–730, Greek poet and Orthodox archbishop of Crete.
- anfractuosities — Plural form of anfractuosity.
- angel food cake — a light, spongy, white cake made with egg whites and no shortening
- angle of attack — the acute angle between the chord line of an aerofoil and the undisturbed relative airflow
- anti-conformist — a person who conforms, especially unquestioningly, to the usual practices or standards of a group, society, etc.
- antiforeclosure — opposed to the process of foreclosure
- artificial gene — a duplicate gene synthesized in the laboratory by combining nucleotides in a sequence characteristic of the copied gene.
- artificialness' — made by human skill; produced by humans (opposed to natural): artificial flowers.
- arts and crafts — decorative handicraft and design, esp that of the Arts and Crafts movement, in late nineteenth-century Britain, which sought to revive medieval craftsmanship
- at first glance — If you say that something is true or seems to be true at first glance, you mean that it seems to be true when you first see it or think about it, but that your first impression may be wrong.
- atlantic puffin — any of several alcidine sea birds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda, having a short neck and a large, compressed, grooved bill, as F. arctica (Atlantic puffin) of the North Atlantic.
- audio frequency — a frequency in the range 20 hertz to 20 000 hertz. A sound wave of this frequency would be audible to the human ear
- autofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting autofluorescence.
- babinski effect — the reflex curling upwards of the toes (instead of inwards) when the sole of the foot is stroked, normal in infants below the age of two but a pathological condition in adults
- baja california — peninsula in Mexico, between the Pacific & the Gulf of California: divided into a northern state (Baja California), 27,071 sq mi (70,114 sq km), pop. 1,661,000, cap. Mexicali; and a southern state (Baja California Sur), 28,447 sq mi (73,677 sq km), pop. 318,000, cap. La Paz
- benefit concert — a concert to raise money for charity
- benefit society — an organization which, by means of dues, secures for its members certain benefits, such as life insurance, hospitalization, etc.
- benefits agency — an agency that handles the payment of benefits
- bessel function — one of several transcendental functions, usually represented as power series, that are solutions to a group of related differential equations.
- biogasification — the conversion of organic matter into biogas.
- bodily function — A person's bodily functions are the normal physical processes that regularly occur in their body, particularly the ability to urinate and defecate.
- book of account — a book to keep accounts in; ledger
- book of changes — an ancient Chinese book of divination, in which 64 pairs of trigrams are shown with various interpretations.
- branchial cleft — Zoology. one of a series of slitlike openings in the walls of the pharynx between the branchial arches of fishes and aquatic amphibians through which water passes from the pharynx to the exterior.
- britneyfication — the effect on clothes and fashions of following the revealing styles favoured by the US pop singer Britney Spears (born 1981)
- buffalo currant — an ornamental shrub, Ribes odoratum, of the central U.S., having showy, drooping clusters of fragrant yellow flowers and edible black fruit.
- business office — the office where the financial transactions, bookkeeping, etc. for a firm or institution are carried on
- california gull — a large gull, Larus californicus, of the western U.S.
- california mink — cacomistle.
- california roll — a sushi roll containing avocado, cucumber, and crabmeat, or imitation crabmeat, wrapped in vinegared rice and seaweed.
- california rose — a cultivated variety of a bindweed, Calystegia hederacea, having showy, double, rose-colored flowers.
- call for margin — a demand made by a stockbroker for partial payment of a client's debt due to decreasing value of the collateral
- call forwarding — a telephone service that allows incoming calls to be transferred automatically to another number or extension
- 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
- cape horn fever — illness feigned by malingerers.
- capital offence — a crime for which the death penalty is used
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