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15-letter words that end in ce

  • crystal lattice — the regular array of points about which the atoms, ions, or molecules composing a crystal are centred
  • current balance — an instrument for measuring electric currents, in which the magnetic force between two current-carrying coils is balanced against a weight.
  • customs service — The Customs Service is a United States federal organization which is responsible for collecting taxes on imported and exported goods. Compare Customs and Excise.
  • cyclone furnace — a furnace burning liquid or pulverized fuel in a whirling air column.
  • dead-cat bounce — a temporary recovery in prices following a substantial fall as a result of speculators buying stocks they have already sold rather than as a result of a genuine reversal of the downward trend
  • dealer's choice — a card game, as poker, in which the dealer decides what particular game is to be played, often depending on the number of players, and designates any special variations or unusual rules, including setting the stakes.
  • death in venice — a novella (1913) by Thomas Mann.
  • delivered price — a quoted price of merchandise, as steel, that includes freight charges from the basing point to the point of delivery, usually f.o.b.
  • direct evidence — evidence of a witness who testifies to the truth of the fact to be proved (contrasted with circumstantial evidence).
  • do an injustice — If you say that someone has done you an injustice, you mean that they have been unfair in the way that they have judged you or treated you.
  • doctor's office — doctor's surgery
  • dolni vestonice — a camping site of Upper Paleolithic mammoth hunters c23,000 b.c. in southern Moravia, Czech Republic, characterized chiefly by Venus figures, ornaments of mammoth ivory, and animal figures of baked clay.
  • driving licence — A driving licence is a card showing that you are qualified to drive because you have passed a driving test.
  • east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • emergency force — a group of soldiers whose job it is to respond to emergencies: for example, to keep order, or to deliver food and medical supplies in a natural disaster
  • escape sequence — (character)   (Or "escape code") A series of characters starting with the escape character (ASCII 27). Escape sequences are often used to control display devices such as VDUs. An escape sequence might change the colour of subsequent text, reassign keys on the keyboard, change printer settings or reposition the cursor. The escape sequences of the DEC vt100 video terminal have become a de facto standard for this purpose. The term is also used for any sequence of characters that temporarily suspends normal processing of a stream of characters to perform some special function. For example, the Hayes modem uses the sequence "+++" to escape to command mode in which characters are interpreted as commands to the modem itself rather than as data to pass through.
  • eviction notice — an advance notice that someone must leave a property
  • 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.
  • family practice — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
  • 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.
  • fee-for-service — pertaining to the charging of fees for specific services rendered in health care, as distinguished from participating in a prepaid medical practice: fee-for-service medicine.
  • field ambulance — a mobile medical unit that accepts casualties from forward units, treating the lightly wounded and stabilizing the condition of the seriously wounded before evacuating them to a hospital
  • fighting chance — a possibility of success following a struggle.
  • fire resistance — the amount of resistance of a material or construction to fire.
  • fleet insurance — Fleet insurance is a type of insurance contract that applies to a number of vehicles.
  • flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
  • foreign service — a division of the U.S. Department of State or of a foreign office that maintains diplomatic and consular posts and personnel in other countries.
  • formation dance — any dance in which a number of couples form a certain arrangement, such as two facing lines or a circle, and perform a series of figures within or based on that arrangement
  • franklin pierce — Franklin, 1804–69, 14th president of the U.S. 1853–57.
  • funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
  • general science — basic science taught as a school subject
  • go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
  • goal difference — the number of goals scored by a team minus the number of goals it has conceded
  • group insurance — life, accident, or health insurance available to a group of persons, as the employees of a company, under a single contract, usually without regard to physical condition or age of the individuals.
  • hanging offence — a crime that is punishable by hanging
  • hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
  • heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
  • heterotolerance — (immunology) Subsequent unresponsiveness to a different agonist.
  • hobson's choice — the choice of taking either that which is offered or nothing; the absence of a real alternative.
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • homing guidance — a method of missile guidance in which internal equipment enables it to steer itself onto the target, as by sensing the target's heat radiation
  • hundred's place — hundred (def 8).
  • hypersomnolence — sleepy; drowsy.
  • hyperweak force — a hypothetical force that transforms quarks into leptons and vice versa at high energies.
  • iceberg lettuce — a variety of lettuce having a cabbagelike head of crisp leaves.
  • ignition source — An ignition source is a process or event which can cause a fire or explosion.
  • improvvisatrice — Alternative form of improvisatrice.
  • in mid-sentence — halfway through saying sth
  • indian licorice — rosary pea.
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