15-letter words containing n, o, f, a, c, t
- craftswomanship — The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
- crossfunctional — Spanning several functions.
- customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
- deacidification — a procedure that is carried out to lessen the level of acid present in paper
- dean of faculty — the president of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland
- debathification — The process of removing former members of the ruling Bath party of Iraq from the military and civil office following the ousting of w Saddam Hussein.
- decalcification — the act or process of decalcifying.
- decertification — The act or process of decertifying.
- demassification — to cause (society or a social system) to become less uniform or centralized; diversify or decentralize: to demassify the federal government.
- demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- demystification — to rid of mystery or obscurity; clarify: to demystify medical procedures.
- demythification — the act of demythifying
- 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.
- despecification — The act of generalizing, or making less specific.
- devitrification — The formation of small crystals in a glass as a result of slow cooling from the molten state.
- dezincification — removal of zinc.
- disaffectionate — not affectionate
- disconfirmation — to prove to be invalid.
- dissatisfaction — the state or attitude of not being satisfied; discontent; displeasure.
- diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
- drift indicator — an instrument that indicates the amount of drift of an aircraft.
- dysfunctionally — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- edict of nantes — a seaport in and the capital of Loire-Atlantique, in W France, at the mouth of the Loire River.
- electrification — The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
- exemplification — The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
- extensification — The process of making something (more) extensive.
- fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
- factor analysis — the use of one of several methods for reducing a set of variables to a lesser number of new variables, each of which is a function of one or more of the original variables.
- factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
- factory farming — Factory farming is a system of farming which involves keeping animals indoors, often with very little space, and giving them special foods so that they grow more quickly or produce more eggs or milk.
- fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
- faith community — a community of people sharing the same religious faith
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- fantasmagorical — Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
- fast-food chain — a chain of restaurants serving fast food
- fatal exception — (programming, operating system) A program execution error which is trapped by the operating system and which results in abrupt termination of the program. It may be possible for the program to catch some such errors, e.g. a floating point underflow; others, such as an invalid memory access (an attempt to write to read-only memory or an attempt to read memory outside of the program's address space), may always cause control to pass to the operating system without allowing the program an opportunity to handle the error. The details depend on the language's run-time system and the operating system. See also: fatal error.
- fault tolerance — (architecture) 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. The number of faults a system or component can withstand before normal operation is impaired.
- fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
- fission reactor — a nuclear reactor in which a fission reaction takes place
- flight of fancy — An idea or statement that is very imaginative but complicated, silly, or impractical can be referred to as a flight of fancy.
- 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 policy — (in marine insurance) a policy that provides protection of a broad nature for shipments of merchandise and that is valid continuously until canceled.
- floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
- florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
- 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.
- for a certainty — without doubt
- formation dance — any dance in which a number of couples form a certain arrangement, such as two facing lines or a circle, and perform a series of figures within or based on that arrangement
- 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