15-letter words containing o, f, c, u, t
- 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.
- 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.
- fellow creature — a kindred creature, especially a fellow human being.
- fifth columnist — A fifth columnist is someone who secretly supports and helps the enemies of the country or organization they are in.
- finishing touch — a final additional or detail that completes and perfects something
- fishhook cactus — a large cactus, Ferocactus wislizenii, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having hooked spines and red or yellow flowers.
- fission product — a nuclide produced either directly by nuclear fission or by the radioactive decay of such a nuclide
- florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
- food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
- foolscap quarto — a book size, 63⁄4 by 81⁄2 inches (foolscap quarto)
- force the issue — to compel decision on some matter
- 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.
- four-ball match — a match, scored by holes, between two pairs of players, in which the four players tee off and the partners alternate in hitting the pair's ball having the better lie off the tee.
- 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.
- french overture — a short piece in three movements common in the 17th and 18th centuries
- french vermouth — a dry aromatic white wine
- friction clutch — a clutch in which one part turns another by friction between them.
- friend at court — a friend in a position of influence or power who may advance one's interests, especially a helpful person who is close to someone in authority.
- fructifications — Plural form of fructification.
- functionability — functional (def 3).
- functional food — a food containing additives which provide extra nutritional value
- functional load — the relative frequency of occurrence of words that are differentiated in one and the same position by only one distinctive feature. In English, the opposition of voiced and voiceless th has a low functional load being used only to distinguish such pairs as ether and either, or wreath and wreathe.
- functional unit — A subsystem of the central processing unit of a computer. E.g. arithmetic and logic unit, memory address register, barrel shifter, register file.
- functionalistic — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- functionalities — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
- fusospirochetes — Plural form of fusospirochete.
- fuzzy computing — fuzzy logic
- gulf of corinth — an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnese and central Greece
- han unification — Han character
- humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
- hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- immunodeficient — Exhibiting immunodeficiency.
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- latent function — any function of an institution or other social phenomenon that is unintentional and often unrecognized.
- linear function — linear transformation.
- linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
- member function — A method in C++.
- microcentrifuge — A centrifuge used in laboratories to separate materials from small samples (especially of biological material).
- multifunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- multiple factor — polygene.
- neuroscientific — the field of study encompassing the various scientific disciplines dealing with the structure, development, function, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system.
- non-functioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- non-manufacture — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- not care a fuck — not to care at all
- out of practice — If you are out of practice at doing something, you have not had much experience of it recently, although you used to do it a lot or be quite good at it.
- perfunctoriness — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.