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15-letter words containing l, a, f, o, e

  • conference call — A conference call is a phone call in which more than two people take part.
  • confessionalism — the belief that a religion, esp Christianity, should have a set of essential doctrines to which members of that religion must adhere
  • confessionalist — an advocate of confessionalism
  • confidentiality — spoken, written, acted on, etc., in strict privacy or secrecy; secret: a confidential remark.
  • conformableness — The state or quality of being conformable.
  • congelifraction — the shattering or splitting of rock or frozen soil due to the action of frost.
  • contraflow lane — a traffic lane whose normal direction is reversed temporarily
  • control surface — a movable surface, such as a rudder, elevator, aileron, etc, that controls an aircraft or rocket
  • coolgardie safe — a cupboard with wetted hessian walls for keeping food cool: used esp in Australia
  • corn-leaf aphid — a green aphid, Rhopalosiphum maidis, widely distributed in the U.S.: a pest of corn and other grasses.
  • counterfactuals — Plural form of counterfactual.
  • 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 appeal — A Court of Appeal is a court which deals with appeals against legal judgments.
  • crystalliferous — producing or containing crystals
  • cyclone furnace — a furnace burning liquid or pulverized fuel in a whirling air column.
  • daffodil yellow — a bright yellow colour
  • day of the lord — Also called Day of Yahweh. (in Old Testament eschatology) a day of final judgment. Amos 5:18–21; Ezek. 30.
  • deadman's float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
  • dean of faculty — the president of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland
  • decalcification — the act or process of decalcifying.
  • declare oneself — to state strongly one's opinion
  • deformalization — to make less formal; reduce the strictness, preciseness, etc., of.
  • democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
  • demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
  • desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
  • dinoflagellates — Plural form of dinoflagellate.
  • draft-mule work — drudgery
  • draw oneself up — to assume a straighter posture; stand or sit straight
  • electrification — The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
  • elephant's-foot — a monocotyledonous plant, Testudinaria elephantipes, of southern Africa, with a very large starchy tuberous stem, covered in corky scales: family Dioscoreaceae
  • exemplification — The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
  • explain oneself — to make clear what one means
  • fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
  • fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
  • 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.
  • fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • fallout shelter — protective bunker
  • 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 hellebore — any of various plants belonging to the genus Veratrum, of the lily family, especially a North American species, V. viride, which has clusters of yellowish-green flowers and is the source of substances used in certain medicines and insecticides.
  • false miterwort — foamflower.
  • family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
  • fashionableness — The state of being fashionable; stylishness; elegance.
  • fatal exception — (programming, operating system)   A program execution error which is trapped by the operating system and which results in abrupt termination of the program. It may be possible for the program to catch some such errors, e.g. a floating point underflow; others, such as an invalid memory access (an attempt to write to read-only memory or an attempt to read memory outside of the program's address space), may always cause control to pass to the operating system without allowing the program an opportunity to handle the error. The details depend on the language's run-time system and the operating system. See also: fatal error.
  • 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.
  • fauntleroy suit — a formal outfit for a boy composed of a hip-length jacket and knee-length pants, often in black velvet, and a wide, lacy collar and cuffs, usually worn with a broad sash at the waist and sometimes a large, loose bow at the neck, popular in the late 19th century.
  • feast of lights — Hanukkah.
  • federal holiday — a day which is a national holiday at the behest of the Federal Government
  • feel one's oats — a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
  • feelgood factor — When journalists refer to the feelgood factor, they mean that people are feeling hopeful and optimistic about the future.
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