15-letter words containing o, u, t, f, c, r
- 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.
- fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
- fusospirochetes — Plural form of fusospirochete.
- gulf of corinth — an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnese and central Greece
- 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.
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- 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).
- 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-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.
- pott's fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
- proper function — eigenfunction.
- purified cotton — bleached and sterilized cotton from which the gross impurities, such as the seeds and waxy matter, have been removed: used for surgical dressings, tampons, etc
- reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
- retrofocus lens — a wide-angle lens, for use on single-lens reflex cameras, of inverted telephoto design, with a back focus greater than the focal length.
- rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
- scotch foursome — foursome (def 2b).
- security forces — police or soldiers responsible for maintaining security
- self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
- star of courage — a Canadian award for bravery
- sulfite process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an acid liquor consisting of sulfurous acid and a salt, usually calcium bisulfite.
- 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.
- tentaculiferous — having tentacles
- tetrafunctional — pertaining to molecules or groups that can bond at four sites.
- the crucifixion — the crucifying of Christ at Calvary, regarded by Christians as the culminating redemptive act of his ministry
- through traffic — traffic which continues on a road or highway rather than crossing onto a different road
- tourist traffic — the number of tourists that visit an area
- 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.
- vector function — a function that assigns a vector to each point in a given set.
- volunteer force — a group of unpaid workers
- vulgar fraction — common fraction.