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15-letter words containing r, e, f, n, c

  • conformableness — The state or quality of being conformable.
  • confraternities — Plural form of confraternity.
  • congelifraction — the shattering or splitting of rock or frozen soil due to the action of frost.
  • 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
  • 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
  • cpu info center — (processor)   An old website at the University of California at Berkeley describing many different computers and their performance.
  • credit transfer — A credit transfer is a direct payment of money from one bank account into another.
  • creeping fescue — red fescue.
  • crestfallenness — the state of being crestfallen
  • cross-reference — A cross-reference is a note in a book which tells you that there is relevant or more detailed information in another part of the book.
  • crown-of-jewels — an annual herb, Lopezia coronata, of Mexico, having lilac-colored flowers with a red base.
  • current affairs — If you refer to current affairs, you are referring to political events and problems in society which are discussed in newspapers, and on television and radio.
  • customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
  • cyclone furnace — a furnace burning liquid or pulverized fuel in a whirling air column.
  • decertification — The act or process of decertifying.
  • declare oneself — to state strongly one's opinion
  • defunct process — zombie process
  • denitrification — to remove nitrogen or nitrogen compounds from.
  • desertification — Desertification is the process by which a piece of land becomes dry, empty, and unsuitable for growing trees or crops on.
  • devitrification — The formation of small crystals in a glass as a result of slow cooling from the molten state.
  • difference ring — a ring whose elements are cosets with respect to a given ideal.
  • disconformities — Plural form of disconformity.
  • disenfranchised — to disfranchise.
  • disenfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disenfranchise.
  • disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • editor in chief — the policy-making executive or principal editor of a publishing house, publication, etc.
  • electrification — The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
  • emergency force — a group of soldiers whose job it is to respond to emergencies: for example, to keep order, or to deliver food and medical supplies in a natural disaster
  • enfranchisement — The act of enfranchising.
  • errand of mercy — a trip undertaken to help someone who is in trouble
  • existence proof — non-constructive proof
  • fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
  • facile princeps — an obvious leader
  • factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
  • fall cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
  • 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.
  • false pregnancy — physiological signs of pregnancy without conception; pseudocyesis.
  • false pretences — fraud, deception
  • 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.
  • fencepost error — 1. (Rarely "lamp-post error") A problem with the discrete equivalent of a boundary condition, often exhibited in programs by iterative loops. From the following problem: "If you build a fence 100 feet long with posts 10 feet apart, how many posts do you need?" (Either 9 or 11 is a better answer than the obvious 10). For example, suppose you have a long list or array of items, and want to process items m through n; how many items are there? The obvious answer is n - m, but that is off by one; the right answer is n - m + 1. The "obvious" formula exhibits a fencepost error. See also zeroth and note that not all off-by-one errors are fencepost errors. The game of Musical Chairs involves a catastrophic off-by-one error where N people try to sit in N - 1 chairs, but it's not a fencepost error. Fencepost errors come from counting things rather than the spaces between them, or vice versa, or by neglecting to consider whether one should count one or both ends of a row. 2. (Rare) An error induced by unexpected regularities in input values, which can (for instance) completely thwart a theoretically efficient binary tree or hash coding implementation. The error here involves the difference between expected and worst case behaviours of an algorithm.
  • fetch and carry — to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
  • fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
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