15-letter words containing s, e, l, f, c, o
- fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
- gulf of fonseca — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America
- heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
- inefficaciously — Without efficacy or effect.
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- latensification — (in photography) the process of intensifying a latent image by the use of chemicals, extra exposure to light, or other means
- legacy software — legacy system
- liaison officer — a person who liaises between groups or units
- lifestyle block — a semi-rural property comprising a house and land for small-scale farming
- line of descent — someone's line of descent is all the people they are descended from
- loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
- long-sufferance — long-suffering.
- microsoft excel — (tool) A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world.
- moccasin flower — the lady's-slipper.
- nonspecifically — in a nonspecific way
- nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
- office politics — power play in the workplace
- official strike — a collective stoppage of work by part or all of the workforce of an organization with the approval of the trade union concerned. The stoppage may be accompanied by the payment of strike pay by the trade union concerned
- oil of the sick — holy oil used in the sacrament of extreme unction.
- passifloraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Passifloraceae, a tropical and subtropical family of climbing plants including the passionflowers: the flowers have five petals and threadlike parts forming a dense mass (corona) around the central disc
- person of color — the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
- platform scales — a weighing machine which has a platform that you put something on to be weighed
- prenflo process — The PRENFLO process is a gasification process to convert substances such as oil, gas, coal, and refinery residue into synthetic gas.
- prince of wales — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
- research fellow — A research fellow is a member of an academic institution whose job is to do research.
- resourcefulness — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
- 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.
- rockrose family — the plant family Cistaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually opposite leaves, solitary or clustered flowers, and capsular fruit, and including the frostweed, pinweed, and rockrose.
- ronne ice shelf — an ice barrier in Antarctica, in SW Weddell Sea, bordered by Ellsworth Land on the NW and Berkner Island on the E.
- sale of produce — the selling of something that is produced, esp agricultural products
- scolopendriform — resembling scolopendra
- self perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
- self-abhorrence — a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination.
- self-accusation — a charge of wrongdoing; imputation of guilt or blame.
- self-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
- self-combustion — the act or process of burning.
- self-commitment — the act of committing.
- self-committing — to give in trust or charge; consign.
- self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
- self-complacent — pleased with oneself; self-satisfied; smug.
- self-conception — self-concept.
- self-confidence — realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
- self-consistent — consistent with oneself or itself.
- self-controlled — Someone who is self-controlled is able to not show their feelings or not do the things that their feelings make them want to do.
- self-correcting — automatically adjusting to or correcting mistakes, malfunctions, etc.: a self-correcting mechanism.
- self-dedication — the act of dedicating.
- self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
- self-disclosure — the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
- self-infliction — inflicted by oneself upon oneself: a self-inflicted wound.
- self-inoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.