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17-letter words containing o, f, i, c, e, p

  • act of parliament — a law that has been passed by both of the UK Houses of Parliament and has received royal assent
  • apostolic fathers — the Fathers of the early Church who immediately followed the Apostles
  • artificial person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
  • breach of promise — (formerly) failure to carry out one's promise to marry
  • café-au-lait spot — a brown patch on the skin that can occur normally in small numbers or in neurofibromatosis, when they are more numerous
  • california privet — a privet, Ligustrum ovalifolium, of the olive family, native to Japan, having glossy, oval leaves and long clusters of white flowers, widely used for hedges in the U.S.
  • centripetal force — a force that acts inwards on any body that rotates or moves along a curved path and is directed towards the centre of curvature of the path or the axis of rotation
  • clifden nonpareil — a handsome nocturnal moth, Catocala fraxini, that is brown with bluish patches on the hindwings: related to the red underwing
  • computer confetti — (jargon)   (Or "chad") A common term for punched-card chad, which, however, does not make good confetti, as the pieces are stiff and have sharp corners that could injure the eyes.
  • conscript fathers — august legislators, esp Roman senators
  • copious free time — (jargon)   (Apple; originally from the introduction to Tom Lehrer's song "It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier") Used ironically to indicate the speaker's lack of the quantity in question; a mythical schedule slot for accomplishing tasks held to be unlikely or impossible. Sometimes used to indicate that the speaker is interested in accomplishing the task, but believes that the opportunity will not arise. "I'll implement the automatic layout stuff in my copious free time." The phrase is also used for time reserved for bogus or otherwise idiotic tasks, such as implementation of bad chrome, or the stroking of suits. "I'll get back to him on that feature in my copious free time."
  • council of europe — an association of European states, established in 1949 to promote unity between its members, defend human rights, and increase social and economic progress
  • cut a poor figure — to appear or behave badly
  • david copperfield — a novel (1850) by Charles Dickens.
  • droplet infection — infection spread by airborne droplets of secretions from the nose, throat, or lungs.
  • empirical formula — a chemical formula indicating the proportion of each element present in a molecule
  • employment office — any of a number of government offices established to collect and supply to the unemployed information about job vacancies and to employers information about availability of prospective workers
  • explicit function — a function whose values may be computed directly, as y = x2 + 1
  • factory inspector — a person who inspects factories
  • fee-paying school — a school which charges fees to parents of pupils
  • fictitious person — a legal entity or artificial person, as a corporation.
  • field post office — a place to which mail intended for military units in the field is sent to be sorted and forwarded
  • fingertip control — control exercised through your fingertips, e.g. by touching a touchscreen
  • first performance — the first time that a play or concert is performed
  • five-spice powder — a mixture of spices used especially in Chinese cooking, usually including cinnamon, cloves, fennel seed, pepper, and star anise.
  • fluorescent strip — a fluorescent light in the form of a long strip
  • frederick pollockSir Frederick, 1845–1937, English legal scholar and author.
  • french provincial — noting, pertaining to, or resembling a style of furnishings and decoration originating in the provinces of France in the 18th century, derived from but less ornate than styles then current in Paris and featuring simply carved wood furniture, often with decorative curved moldings.
  • function complete — (programming)   State of a software component or system such that each function described by the software's functional specification can be reached by at least one functional path, and attempts to operate as specified.
  • impersonification — (archaic) the act of impersonating; impersonation.
  • improper fraction — a fraction having the numerator greater than the denominator.
  • in the process of — If you are in the process of doing something, you have started to do it and are still doing it.
  • incomplete flower — a flower without one or more of the normal parts, as carpels, sepals, petals, pistils, or stamens.
  • job specification — a detailed description of the qualifications, skills, and experience required for a particular post of employment
  • jumping-off place — a place for use as a starting point: Paris was the jumping-off place for our tour of Europe.
  • liberty of speech — freedom of speech.
  • microfilm plotter — a type of incremental plotter that has a film rather than a paper output
  • microsoft project — (product)   A Microsoft Windows program offering various project management tools.
  • office by example — (language)   (OBE) A sequel to QBE, described in publications by Moshe Zloof of IBM in the early 1980s but apparently never implemented.
  • origin of species — (On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life) a treatise (1859) by Charles Darwin setting forth his theory of evolution.
  • pacific northwest — the region of North America lying north of the Columbia River and west of the Rockies
  • pacific tree frog — a common terrestrial frog, Hyla regilla, of western North America, having a dark stripe along each side of the head.
  • pair of compasses — compass (def 7)
  • peridot of ceylon — a honey-colored tourmaline, used as a gem: not a true peridot.
  • periodic function — a function of a real or complex variable that is periodic.
  • personnel officer — a worker responsible for recruiting employees and dealing with matters relating to them
  • petrol filler cap — a small cover that goes over the hole in a vehicle into which you put petrol
  • phenylformic acid — benzoic acid.
  • piece of business — business (def 10).
  • pincushion flower — scabious2 (def 1).

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