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15-letter words containing o, n, f

  • code of conduct — The code of conduct for a group or organization is an agreement on rules of behaviour for the members of that group or organization.
  • coffee granules — instant coffee in the form of grains
  • coffee whitener — a milk substitute to put in coffee
  • colonial office — a government body that was set up to oversee the affairs of the British Empire colonies
  • combined forces — the forces of two or more countries, fighting together
  • come to oneself — to recover one's senses
  • comfort blanket — a blanket that a young child is very attached to
  • comfort station — a public lavatory and rest room
  • comfortableness — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
  • commodification — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
  • common fraction — a fraction whose numerator and denominator are both whole numbers
  • common-law wife — a woman considered to be a man's wife after the couple have cohabited for several years
  • company officer — a captain or lieutenant serving in a company.
  • compound flower — a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy
  • concern oneself — to busy oneself (with, about, over, in something); take an interest
  • cone of silence — a space, in the shape of an inverted cone, above a radio beacon, in which there is a sharp reduction in the intensity of transmitted signals.
  • confectionaries — a candy; sweetmeat.
  • confectioneries — Plural form of confectionery.
  • confederate war — the American Civil War.
  • conference call — A conference call is a phone call in which more than two people take part.
  • conference pear — a variety of pear that has sweet and juicy fruit
  • conference room — A conference room is a large room in a hotel where a number of people can have a conference.
  • confessionalism — the belief that a religion, esp Christianity, should have a set of essential doctrines to which members of that religion must adhere
  • confessionalist — an advocate of confessionalism
  • confidence game — A confidence game is the same as a confidence trick.
  • confidence test — (testing)   Tests to confirm that the results of a program lie within certain ranges according to the expected probability distribution.
  • confidence vote — a vote to clarify whether someone or something has the support of those present
  • confidentiality — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
  • configurability — The property of being configurable.
  • configurational — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • conformableness — The state or quality of being conformable.
  • confraternities — Plural form of confraternity.
  • confrontational — If you describe the way that someone behaves as confrontational, you are showing your disapproval of the fact that they are aggressive and likely to cause an argument or dispute.
  • congelifraction — the shattering or splitting of rock or frozen soil due to the action of frost.
  • consonant shift — a change, or a set of connected changes, in the articulation of consonants in any language or family of languages
  • contingency fee — a lawyer's fee that only becomes payable if the case is successful
  • continuous-form — of or relating to paper, blank forms, checks, etc., supplied in a folded stack or roll to a device, as a computer printer, generally with perforations between sheets for later separation and often with detachable punched edges used to advance the sheets through the device.
  • contour feather — any of the feathers that cover the body of an adult bird, apart from the wings and tail, and determine its shape
  • contraflow lane — a traffic lane whose normal direction is reversed temporarily
  • control surface — a movable surface, such as a rudder, elevator, aileron, etc, that controls an aircraft or rocket
  • corn-leaf aphid — a green aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis, widely distributed in the U.S.: a pest of corn and other grasses.
  • cornflower blue — a deep vivid blue, like that of the typical blooms of a cornflower
  • corporification — an act or the quality of embodying
  • cosignificative — having the same meaning or sense
  • counterfactuals — Plural form of counterfactual.
  • counterfeisance — the act of counterfeiting
  • counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
  • counterreformer — a reformer who acts in opposition to another reform
  • court of honour — a military court that is instituted to investigate matters involving personal honour
  • cpu info center — (processor)   An old website at the University of California at Berkeley describing many different computers and their performance.
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