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15-letter words containing o, f, a, c

  • rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
  • rockrose family — the plant family Cistaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually opposite leaves, solitary or clustered flowers, and capsular fruit, and including the frostweed, pinweed, and rockrose.
  • royal air force — aerial branch of British military
  • sale of produce — the selling of something that is produced, esp agricultural products
  • sb's cup of tea — If you say that someone or something is not your cup of tea, you mean that they are not the kind of person or thing that you like.
  • see the back of — to be rid of
  • self-abhorrence — a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination.
  • self-accusation — a charge of wrongdoing; imputation of guilt or blame.
  • self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
  • self-complacent — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
  • self-dedication — the act of dedicating.
  • self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-inoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
  • self-laceration — the result of lacerating; a rough, jagged tear.
  • self-medication — the use of medicine without medical supervision to treat one's own ailment.
  • self-proclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • semi-functional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • shockwave flash — flash
  • show one's face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
  • shut one's face — to be silent
  • simple fraction — a ratio of two integers.
  • slashdot effect — a temporary surge in the numbers visiting a website and consequent service slowdown or even server crash that sometimes arises as a result of a new link being set up from a more popular website
  • snowball effect — a process of continuously accelerating change in size, importance, etc
  • social benefits — the social welfare provision made available to those in need
  • soft-shell clam — an edible clam, Mya arenaria, inhabiting waters along both coasts of North America, having an oval, relatively thin, whitish shell.
  • soft-shell crab — a crab, especially the blue crab, that has recently molted and therefore has a soft, edible shell.
  • star of courage — a Canadian award for bravery
  • station officer — a person who is in charge of a fire station
  • strait of canso — a channel in Canada, between the Nova Scotia mainland and S Cape Breton Island
  • summary offence — an offence that is triable in a magistrates' court
  • surface tension — the elasticlike force existing in the surface of a body, especially a liquid, tending to minimize the area of the surface, caused by asymmetries in the intermolecular forces between surface molecules.
  • syllabification — to form or divide into syllables.
  • take account of — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
  • teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
  • tentaculiferous — having tentacles
  • tetrafunctional — pertaining to molecules or groups that can bond at four sites.
  • the confederacy — the league of Southern states that seceded from the U.S. in 1860 & 1861; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex., & Va.
  • through traffic — traffic which continues on a road or highway rather than crossing onto a different road
  • ticket of leave — (formerly) a permit allowing a convict to leave prison, under certain restrictions, and go to work before having served a full term, somewhat similar to a certificate of parole.
  • toreador fresco — a mural (c1500 b.c.) from Minoan Crete.
  • tourist traffic — the number of tourists that visit an area
  • tractive effort — the force exerted by a locomotive or other powered vehicle on its driving wheels.
  • traffic control — management of road use
  • traffic offence — a violation of traffic regulations, such as breaking the speed limit
  • transfer factor — a lymphocyte product that, when extracted from T cells of an individual with immunity to a particular antigen, can confer that immunity when administered to another individual of the same species.
  • turf accountant — bookmaker (def 1).
  • ultramicrofiche — ultrafiche.
  • unaccounted for — If people or things are unaccounted for, you do not know where they are or what has happened to them.
  • unaccounted-for — not accounted for; not understood; unexplained: an explosion resulting from some unaccounted-for mechanical failure.
  • unit of account — the function of money that enables the user to keep accounts, value transactions, etc
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