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14-letter words containing o, c, t, f

  • council of ten — the governing council of Venice from 1310 until its overthrow in 1797, composed originally of 10 and later 17 members.
  • counterfactual — expressing what has not happened but could, would, or might under differing conditions
  • counterfeiters — Plural form of counterfeiter.
  • counterfeiting — the making of fraudulent copies; forgery
  • court of honor — the planning body of a girl-scout troop, composed of patrol leaders, the troop scribe, the troop treasurer, and the adult troop leader.
  • cross software — Software developed on one kind of computer for use on another (usually because the other computer does not have itself adequate facilities for software development).
  • cross-platform — (software, hardware)   A term that describes a language, software application or hardware device that works on more than one system platform (e.g. Unix, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh). E.g. Netscape Navigator, Java.
  • cruft together — (jargon)   To hack together though with the suggestion that the result may be cruft.
  • cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • cult following — the admiration that is felt by a particular group for a film, book, band, etc
  • culture factor — culture as a causative agent, especially in contrast to biological factors.
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • cut-off device — a device that terminates the flow or supply of something
  • cut-off switch — a switch that cuts off the supply of electricity
  • cylinder front — a front cover for a desk or the like, consisting either of a solid piece or of a tambour sliding up and back in quadrantal grooves.
  • dance of death — a pictorial, literary, or musical representation, current esp in the Middle Ages, of a dance in which living people, in order of social precedence, are led off to their graves, by a personification of death
  • date of record — the final date a registered stockholder of a corporation has the right to receive a dividend or other benefit.
  • decaffeination — The removal of caffeine.
  • deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
  • delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
  • denazification — The process of bringing the leaders of the National Socialist regime in Germany to justice and of purging all elements of Nazism from public life, carried out especially between 1945 and 1948.
  • denitrificator — an apparatus which is used in denitrification, particularly in sulphuric acid works
  • depth of focus — the amount by which the distance between the camera lens and the film can be altered without the resulting image appearing blurred
  • detoxification — Detoxification is treatment given to people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol in order to stop them from being addicted.
  • diffractometer — an instrument that is used to study atomic crystal structure by measuring the angles at which x-rays, neutrons, or electrons are diffracted by matter.
  • diffractometry — The elucidation of the structures of crystalline materials by the use of X-ray diffraction.
  • discomfitingly — In a manner that discomfits.
  • discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
  • doctor faustus — (The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus) a play (c1588) by Christopher Marlowe, based on the medieval legend of Faust.
  • domestic staff — servants
  • doppler effect — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
  • drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
  • drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
  • duckfoot quote — chevron-shaped quotation mark
  • dutch reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
  • effective dose — the amount of a drug, or level of radiation exposure, that is sufficient to achieve the desired clinical improvement.
  • electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
  • electroforming — a process used to create a metallic object by electrolytic deposition on a mould or matrix
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
  • fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
  • factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
  • factory outlet — a store that sells factory-made goods directly to consumers for less than current retail prices.
  • factory worker — manufacturing labourer
  • faculty lounge — a staffroom
  • fall victim to — If you fall victim to something or someone, you suffer as a result of them, or you are killed by them.
  • falling action — the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
  • family compact — any influential clique
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