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16-letter words containing o, f, c

  • one's cup of tea — the dried and prepared leaves of a shrub, Camellia sinensis, from which a somewhat bitter, aromatic beverage is prepared by infusion in hot water.
  • one-way function — (cryptography, mathematics)   A function which is easy to compute but whose inverse is very difficult to compute. Such functions have important applications in cryptography, specifically in public-key cryptography. See also: trapdoor function.
  • order of service — a prescribed form of liturgical service, or of administration of a rite or ceremony
  • ordnance factory — a factory that makes military weapons and ammunition
  • orthoformic acid — a hypothetical acid, HC(OH) 3 , known only in the form of its esters.
  • out of character — the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
  • out of condition — If someone is out of condition, they are unhealthy and unfit, because they do not do enough exercise.
  • ovals of cassini — the locus of a point x, whose distance from two fixed points, a and b, is such that |x–a| |x–b| is a constant
  • ovshinsky effect — an effect that turns special types of glassy, thin films into semiconductors upon application of low voltage.
  • pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
  • packing fraction — Physics. a measure of the stability of an atomic nucleus, equal to 10 4 multiplied by the mass defect and divided by the mass number.
  • pair of scissors — two-bladed cutting tool
  • partial fraction — one of the fractions into which a given fraction can be resolved, the sum of such simpler fractions being equal to the given fraction: Partial fractions of 5/(x2−x) are 5/(x−1) and −5/x.
  • partial function — A function which is not defined for all arguments of its input type. E.g. f(x) = 1/x if x /= 0. The opposite of a total function. In denotational semantics, a partial function f : D -> C may be represented as a total function ft : D' -> lift(C) where D' is a superset of D and ft x = f x if x in D ft x = bottom otherwise where lift(C) = C U bottom. Bottom (LaTeX \perp) denotes "undefined".
  • peace conference — a conference where representatives of warring governments or countries sign a treaty to end conflict
  • peregrine falcon — a globally distributed falcon, Falco peregrinus, much used in falconry because of its swift flight: several subspecies are endangered.
  • perforated ulcer — an ulcer that bursts through the stomach wall and leaks food and gastric juices into the abdominal cavity
  • performance bond — contract bond.
  • performance test — a test requiring little or no use of language, the test materials being designed to elicit manual or behavioral responses rather than verbal ones.
  • person of colour — a person who is not White
  • personal effects — belongings
  • place of worship — religious house: church, temple
  • placement office — an office in a university that offers students careers advice and help to find employment
  • platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • point of contact — (networking)   (POC) An individual associated with a particular Internet entity (IP network, domain, ASN).
  • powerpc platform — (architecture, standard)   (PPCP, PReP - PowerPC Reference Platform, formerly CHRP - Common Hardware Reference Platform) An open system standard, designed by IBM, intended to ensure compatibility among PowerPC-based systems built by different companies. The PReP standard specifies the PCI bus, but will also support ISA, MicroChannel and PCMCIA. PReP-compliant systems will be able to run the Macintosh OS, OS/2, WorkplaceOS, AIX, Solaris, Taligent and Windows NT. IBM systems will (of course) be PReP-compliant. Apple's first PowerPC Macintoshes will not be compliant, but future ones may be.
  • preference stock — preferred stock.
  • presence of mind — a calm state of mind that allows one to think clearly or act effectively in an emergency.
  • prespecification — the act of specifying.
  • press conference — a prearranged interview with news reporters, held to elicit publicity or, as granted by a dignitary, public official, research scientist, etc., to fulfill a request from the press.
  • proficiency test — an exam which test how proficient or skilled someone is in a particular activity, field of study, language, etc
  • proof of concept — the stage during the development of a product when it is established that the product will function as intended
  • pseudoscientific — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
  • pull a long face — to look sad, glum, disapproving, etc.
  • question of fact — a question concerning the reality of an alleged event or circumstance in a trial by jury, usually determined by the jury.
  • racial profiling — the use of personal characteristics or behavior patterns to make generalizations about a person, as in gender profiling.
  • radius of action — the maximum distance that a ship, aircraft, or land vehicle can travel from its base and return without refuelling
  • rape of the lock — a mock-epic poem (1712) by Alexander Pope.
  • rate of exchange — exchange rate.
  • reclassification — categorization in a different way
  • reconnection fee — an amount of money that a company charges customers in order to reconnect their supply of electricity, water, gas, or telephone after it has been stopped
  • reflection plane — a plane through a crystal that divides the crystal into two halves that are mirror images of each other.
  • refresher course — a study course serving as a review of previous education.
  • refrigerator car — a freight car having either an ice chest or machinery for chilling perishables and sometimes having a heating unit to keep perishables from freezing.
  • refuse collector — someone who collects of rubbish and waste, usually in a rubbish or refuse truck, before final disposal
  • reidentification — an act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.
  • releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
  • rich text format — (RTF) An interchange format from Microsoft for exchange of documents between Word and other document preparation systems.
  • right about face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
  • rolling friction — frictional resistance to rotation or energy losses in rolling bearings
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