13-letter words containing c, a, n, f
- enfranchising — Present participle of enfranchise.
- extractor fan — a fan used in kitchens, bathrooms, workshops, etc, to remove stale air or fumes
- fabric ribbon — a typewriter ribbon made of inked material
- face painting — art of decorating the face with paint
- face-centered — (of a crystal structure) having lattice points on the faces of the unit cells.
- facetiousness — (uncountable) The state of being facetious.
- faction fight — a fight between rival Black groups, usually originating in tribal or clan feuds
- factionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of factionalize.
- factorisation — Alternative spelling of factorization.
- factorization — Mathematics. to resolve into factors.
- falcon-gentle — the female peregrine falcon.
- false economy — an attempt to save money which actually leads to greater expense
- falsification — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- fanaticalness — Fanaticism.
- fancy (that)! — can you imagine (that)!
- fantasmagoric — phantasmagoria.
- fantastically — conceived or appearing as if conceived by an unrestrained imagination; odd and remarkable; bizarre; grotesque: fantastic rock formations; fantastic designs.
- fasciculation — a fascicular condition.
- fascinatingly — of great interest or attraction; enchanting; charming; captivating: a fascinating story; fascinating jewelry.
- fast-tracking — the practice of speeding up the progress of a project or person
- fat electrons — (electronics, humour) Old-time hacker David Cargill's theory on the cause of computer glitches. Your typical electricity company draws its line current out of the big generators with a pair of coil taps located near the top of the dynamo. When the normal tap brushes get dirty, they take them off line to clean them up, and use special auxiliary taps on the *bottom* of the coil. Now, this is a problem, because when they do that they get not ordinary or "thin" electrons, but the fat sloppy electrons that are heavier and so settle to the bottom of the generator. These flow down ordinary wires just fine, but when they have to turn a sharp corner (as in an integrated-circuit via), they're apt to get stuck. This is what causes computer glitches. Compare bogon, magic smoke.
- fault current — A fault current is a current that results from a fault.
- faunistically — in a faunistic manner
- febrifacients — Plural form of febrifacient.
- felicitations — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
- female condom — a type of condom used by women and inserted into the vagina
- fencing match — a match between fencers
- ferricyanogen — (chemistry) A hexavalent radical, Fe2(CN)12, a compound of cyanogen and iron in the ferric state.
- ferrimagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as a ferrite, in which the magnetic moments of some neighboring atoms point in opposite directions, with a net magnetization still resulting because of differences in magnitudes of the opposite moments.
- ferrocyanogen — a ferrocyanide radical
- ferromagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
- ferry company — a company that operates a ferry or ferries
- fibre channel — (storage, networking, communications) An ANSI standard originally intended for high-speed SANs connecting servers, disc arrays, and backup devices, also later adapted to form the physical layer of Gigabit Ethernet. Development work on Fibre channel started in 1988 and it was approved by the ANSI standards committee in 1994, running at 100Mb/s. More recent innovations have seen the speed of Fibre Channel SANs increase to 10Gb/s. Several topologies are possible with Fibre Channel, the most popular being a number of devices attached to one (or two, for redundancy) central Fibre Channel switches, creating a reliable infrastructure that allows servers to share storage arrays or tape libraries. One common use of Fibre Channel SANs is for high availability databaseq clusters where two servers are connected to one highly reliable RAID array. Should one server fail, the other server can mount the array itself and continue operations with minimal downtime and loss of data. Other advanced features include the ability to have servers and hard drives seperated by hundreds of miles or to rapidly mirror data between servers and hard drives, perhaps in seperate geographic locations.
- fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
- fictionalized — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
- fictionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fictionalize.
- field captain — a member of a team taking active part in a game who is authorized to make decisions for the team, especially in regard to planning plays, deciding whether to accept penalties called by an official against the opponents, etc.
- final curtain — end of a theatre performance
- financing gap — the difference between a country's requirements for foreign exchange to finance its debts and imports and its income from overseas
- finback whale — rorqual
- fingal's cave — a cave on the island of Staffa, in the Hebrides, Scotland. 227 feet (69 meters) long; 42 feet (13 meters) wide.
- finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
- finite clause — a clause with a finite verb in its predicate.
- fire watching — the job of watching for fires, especially those caused by aerial bombardment
- firnification — the process by which snow changes into névé.
- fishing smack — any of various fore-and-aft-rigged fishing vessels of rather large size, often containing a well to keep the catch alive.
- flame cutting — a method of cutting ferrous metals in which the metal is heated by a torch to about 800°C and is oxidized by a stream of oxygen from the torch
- flash fiction — very short works of fiction that are typically no longer than a couple of pages and may be as short as one paragraph.
- floating dock — a submersible, floating structure used as a dry dock, having a floor that is submerged, slipped under a floating vessel, and then raised so as to raise the vessel entirely out of the water.
- floccillation — a delirious picking of the bedclothes by the patient, as in certain fevers.