15-letter words containing u, n, c, f
- 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.
- immunodeficient — Exhibiting immunodeficiency.
- in difficulties — in distress, esp. financially
- inch of mercury — a unit of atmospheric pressure, being the pressure equal to that exerted by a column of mercury one inch high under standard conditions of temperature and gravity: 33.864 millibars. Abbreviation: in. Hg.
- ineffectualness — Inefficacy.
- inefficaciously — Without efficacy or effect.
- infraclavicular — (anatomy) Below the clavicle.
- infrastructural — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
- infrastructures — Plural form of infrastructure.
- insufficiencies — Plural form of insufficiency.
- interfascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- intrafascicular — between the xylem and phloem elements of a vascular bundle
- lake-of-lucerne — a canton in central Switzerland. 576 sq. mi. (1490 sq. km).
- latent function — any function of an institution or other social phenomenon that is unintentional and often unrecognized.
- linear function — linear transformation.
- linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
- long-sufferance — long-suffering.
- member function — A method in C++.
- microcentrifuge — A centrifuge used in laboratories to separate materials from small samples (especially of biological material).
- molecular knife — a segment of genetic material that inhibits the reproduction of the AIDS virus by breaking up specific areas of the virus's genes.
- multifunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- 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-efficacious — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
- non-functioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- 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
- nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
- off one's chump — insane; crazy
- office building — building containing offices
- pendulum effect — Also called pendulum law. Physics. a law, discovered by Galileo in 1602, that describes the regular, swinging motion of a pendulum by the action of gravity and acquired momentum.
- perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
- perfunctoriness — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- picture-framing — the job of framing photos, paintings etc
- premanufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- principal focus — focal point (def 1).
- proper function — eigenfunction.
- public defender — a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
- public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- puffin crossing — a UK pedestrian road crossing with traffic lights signalling red to stop the traffic flow when pedestrians are seen on the crossing by infrared detectors. The green signal reappears when no pedestrians are seen on the crossing
- 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
- put into effect — law, rule: enforce
- quantifications — Plural form of quantification.
- radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
- reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- recurrent fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
- reference group — a group with which an individual identifies and whose values the individual accepts as guiding principles.
- requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
- resourcefulness — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.