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14-letter words containing r, f, c

  • buchner funnel — a laboratory filter funnel used under reduced pressure. It consists of a shallow porcelain cylinder with a flat perforated base
  • burschenschaft — a students' fraternity, originally one concerned with Christian ideals, patriotism, etc
  • cafeteria plan — a fringe-benefit plan under which employees may choose from among various benefits those that best fit their needs, up to a specified dollar value.
  • call of nature — Some people talk about a call of nature when referring politely to the need to go to the toilet.
  • calorification — the production of heat
  • caltrop family — the plant family Zygophyllaceae, typified by tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having pinnate leaves, solitary or paired regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the creosote bush, lignum vitae, and puncture vine.
  • camp fire girl — a girl who is a member of Camp Fire, Inc., an organization for girls founded in 1910, and since 1975 also including boys, to promote character-building activities
  • can ill afford — If you say that someone can ill afford to do something, or can ill afford something, you mean that they must prevent it from happening because it would be harmful or embarrassing to them.
  • candlesnuffers — Plural form of candlesnuffer.
  • canicola fever — an acute febrile disease of humans and dogs, characterized by inflammation of the stomach and intestines and by jaundice: caused by a spirochete, Leptospira canicola.
  • cape guardafui — a cape at the NE tip of Somalia, extending into the Indian Ocean
  • cape trafalgar — a cape on the SW coast of Spain, south of Cádiz: scene of the decisive naval battle (1805) in which the French and Spanish fleets were defeated by the British under Nelson, who was mortally wounded
  • caprimulgiform — Of or pertaining to the taxonomic order Caprimulgiformes.
  • careers office — a room or building in which vocational advice can be obtained from a Careers Officer and which often also has books, leaflets, etc on careers
  • carousel fraud — the practice of importing goods from a country where they are not subject to VAT, selling them with VAT added, then deliberately not paying the VAT to the government
  • carrion feeder — any animal that feeds on dead and rotting flesh
  • carrion flower — a liliaceous climbing plant, Smilax herbacea of E North America, whose small green flowers smell like decaying flesh
  • case framework — A set of products and conventions that allow CASE tools to be integrated into a coherent environment.
  • cell reference — (spreadsheet)   A string identifying a particular cell in a spreadsheet, possibly relative to the cell containing the reference. A cell reference may be absolute (denoted by a "$" prefix in Excel) or relative (no prefix) in each dimension, thus, e.g. B$6 refers to the second cell across in the sixth row. The distinction between absolute and relative is only significant when the referring cell is copied, e.g. if cell A1, which refers to B$6, is copied to cell B1, then B1 will refer to C6. If the reference is to a cell in a different sheet then it is prefixed with the target sheet's name and an exclamation mark. E.g. "Sheet 1!B3".
  • center fielder — the player whose position is center field.
  • center forward — A center forward in a team sport such as soccer or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
  • center of mass — the point in a body or system of bodies at which the entire mass may be assumed to be concentrated
  • central office — (communications)   The place where telephone companies terminate customer lines and locate switching equipment to interconnect those lines with other networks.
  • centre of mass — the point at which the mass of a system could be concentrated without affecting the behaviour of the system under the action of external linear forces
  • centre-forward — A centre-forward in a team sport such as football or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
  • centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
  • centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
  • certifications — Plural form of certification.
  • certified mail — If you send a letter or package by certified mail, you send it using a mail service which gives you an official record of the fact that it has been mailed and delivered.
  • certified milk — milk that is processed according to the sanitation standards in the area in which it is sold
  • channel surfer — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
  • chapel of rest — a room in an undertaker's place of business where bodies are laid out in their coffins to be viewed before the funeral
  • charter flight — a flight booked by a holiday company to transport their customers
  • checkered flag — a flag having a pattern of black and white squares, used to signal that a car has crossed the finish line and completed its race.
  • chequered flag — the black-and-white checked flag traditionally shown to the winner and all finishers at the end of a motor race by a senior race official
  • chief engineer — the senior engineer on board a ship
  • childbed fever — puerperal fever.
  • chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
  • chlorosulfuric — (inorganic chemistry) Of or pertaining to chlorosulfuric acid or its derivatives.
  • christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
  • church of rome — the Roman Catholic Church
  • circumferences — Plural form of circumference.
  • circumferentor — an instrument that measures the circumference of a tyre
  • circumfixation — a prefix and a suffix attached to a root or stem, as the a and -ing in a-going.
  • clarifications — Plural form of clarification.
  • classificatory — the act of classifying.
  • clean up after — If you clean up after someone, you clean or tidy a place that they have made dirty or untidy.
  • clerk of court — an officer of the court who maintains the records, among other duties
  • clerk of works — an employee who supervises building work in progress or the upkeep of existing buildings
  • clifford trust — a type of living trust set up for at least a 10-year period, during which the income goes to a beneficiary and after which the principal reverts to the grantor.
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