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15-letter words containing a, f, r, c

  • disconfirmation — to prove to be invalid.
  • disenfranchised — to disfranchise.
  • disenfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disenfranchise.
  • disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
  • dissatisfactory — causing dissatisfaction; unsatisfactory: dissatisfactory service.
  • disulfuric acid — pyrosulfuric acid
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • drift indicator — an instrument that indicates the amount of drift of an aircraft.
  • drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
  • dwarf poinciana — royal poinciana.
  • electrification — The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
  • enfranchisement — The act of enfranchising.
  • errand of mercy — a trip undertaken to help someone who is in trouble
  • fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
  • facile princeps — an obvious leader
  • 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.
  • factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
  • factory farming — Factory farming is a system of farming which involves keeping animals indoors, often with very little space, and giving them special foods so that they grow more quickly or produce more eggs or milk.
  • faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
  • 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)
  • fall from grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
  • 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 decretals — the Pseudo-Isidorian documents.
  • false pregnancy — physiological signs of pregnancy without conception; pseudocyesis.
  • false pretences — fraud, deception
  • family practice — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
  • fantasmagorical — Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
  • farm gate price — the price for the sale of farm produce direct from the producer
  • 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.
  • featherstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of featherstitch.
  • feature article — a feature article in a newspaper or magazine deals in depth with a topic or person
  • feelgood factor — When journalists refer to the feelgood factor, they mean that people are feeling hopeful and optimistic about the future.
  • fellow creature — a kindred creature, especially a fellow human being.
  • ferroelasticity — (physics) A phenomenon, analogous to ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, in which spontaneous strain arises within a material.
  • fetch and carry — to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
  • fideicommissary — the recipient of a fideicommissum.
  • fiduciary issue — an issue of banknotes not backed by gold
  • 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
  • filemaker, inc. — (company)   The company that distributes the FileMaker database. FileMaker, Inc. was previously known as Claris and was renamed after a restructuring in January 1998.
  • fire resistance — the amount of resistance of a material or construction to fire.
  • first secretary — The First Secretary of the Welsh Assembly is the leader of the ruling party.
  • 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.
  • fischer-dieskau — Dietrich [dee-trik;; German dee-trikh] /ˈdi trɪk;; German ˈdi trɪx/ (Show IPA), 1925–2012, German baritone.
  • fission reactor — a nuclear reactor in which a fission reaction takes place
  • fitness tracker — a wearable electronic device or a software application that monitors one's physical fitness and daily physical activity.
  • flame-arc light — an arc light that uses flame carbons to colour the arc
  • flatbed scanner — a type of optical scanner having a flat, stationary surface on which a page is scanned by a moving head.
  • flavor enhancer — a substance added to food in order to enhance or intensify its flavor: Salt is a common flavor enhancer.
  • 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
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