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15-letter words containing s, c, a, f, o

  • 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.
  • court of arches — the court of appeal of the Province of Canterbury, formerly held under the arches of Bow Church
  • court of claims — (in the US) a court that hears claims against the federal government
  • craftswomanship — The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
  • crisis software — A small UK company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes range of computers.
  • cross of valour — the highest Canadian award for bravery
  • crossfunctional — Spanning several functions.
  • crystalliferous — producing or containing crystals
  • customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
  • declare oneself — to state strongly one's opinion
  • demassification — to cause (society or a social system) to become less uniform or centralized; diversify or decentralize: to demassify the federal government.
  • demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
  • demystification — to rid of mystery or obscurity; clarify: to demystify medical procedures.
  • desertification — Desertification is the process by which a piece of land becomes dry, empty, and unsuitable for growing trees or crops on.
  • despecification — The act of generalizing, or making less specific.
  • diffractometers — Plural form of diffractometer.
  • disaffectionate — not affectionate
  • disconfirmation — to prove to be invalid.
  • dissatisfaction — the state or attitude of not being satisfied; discontent; displeasure.
  • dissatisfactory — causing dissatisfaction; unsatisfactory: dissatisfactory service.
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • dysfunctionally — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • edict of nantes — a seaport in and the capital of Loire-Atlantique, in W France, at the mouth of the Loire River.
  • efficaciousness — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
  • extensification — The process of making something (more) extensive.
  • fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
  • factor analysis — the use of one of several methods for reducing a set of variables to a lesser number of new variables, each of which is a function of one or more of the original variables.
  • faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
  • fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
  • 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.
  • fantasmagorical — Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
  • fasciolopsiasis — a parasitic disease caused by flukes of the genus Fasciolopsis and characterized by abdominal pain and diarrhea: common in the Far East.
  • fast-food chain — a chain of restaurants serving fast food
  • ferroelasticity — (physics) A phenomenon, analogous to ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, in which spontaneous strain arises within a material.
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
  • fideicommissary — the recipient of a fideicommissum.
  • first-day cover — a cover marked so as to indicate that it was mailed on the first day of issue of the stamp it bears and from one of the cities at which the stamp was issued on that day.
  • fishhook cactus — a large cactus, Ferocactus wislizenii, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having hooked spines and red or yellow flowers.
  • fission reactor — a nuclear reactor in which a fission reaction takes place
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
  • floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
  • flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
  • fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.
  • foolscap octavo — a book size, 41⁄4 by 63⁄4 inches
  • foolscap quarto — a book size, 63⁄4 by 81⁄2 inches (foolscap quarto)
  • forecastle deck — a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; topgallant forecastle.
  • forecastle head — the extreme fore part of a forecastle superstructure.
  • formal calculus — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
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