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13-letter words containing c, a, s, t, o, f

  • functionalise — to make functional.
  • functionalism — (usually initial capital letter) Chiefly Architecture, Furniture. a design movement evolved from several previous movements or schools in Europe in the early 20th century, advocating the design of buildings, furnishings, etc., as direct fulfillments of material requirements, as for shelter, repose, or the serving of food, with the construction, materials, and purpose clearly expressed or at least not denied, and with aesthetic effect derived chiefly from proportions and finish, purely decorative effects being excluded or greatly subordinated. the doctrines and practices associated with this movement. Compare rationalism (def 4).
  • functionalist — a person who advocates, or works according to, the principles of functionalism.
  • functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
  • half-scottish — Also, Scots. of or relating to Scotland, its people, or their language.
  • hash function — (programming)   A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
  • infant school — In Britain, an infant school is a school for children between the ages of five and seven.
  • jacob's staff — Astronomy. cross-staff.
  • justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
  • justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
  • kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
  • liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
  • logical shift — (programming)   (Either shift left logical or shift right logical) Machine-level operations available on nearly all processors which move each bit in a word one or more bit positions in the given direction. A left shift moves the bits to more significant positions (like multiplying by two), a right shift moves them to less significant positions (like dividing by two). The comparison with multiplication and division breaks down in certain circumstances - a logical shift may discard bits that are shifted off either end of the word and does not preserve the sign of the word (positive or negative). Logical shift is approriate when treating the word as a bit string or a sequence of bit fields, whereas arithmetic shift is appropriate when treating it as a binary number. The word to be shifted is usually stored in a register, or possibly in memory.
  • lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
  • manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
  • market forces — factors driving the economy
  • massification — the practice of making luxury products available to the mass market
  • metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
  • modifications — Plural form of modification.
  • montefiascone — a town in central Italy: wine-growing area.
  • mystification — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
  • nectariferous — producing nectar.
  • noncolourfast — (of a fabric) having a colour that tends to fade when washed or worn
  • notifications — Plural form of notification.
  • olfactologist — a medical specialist in the sense of smell
  • olfactometers — Plural form of olfactometer.
  • ossifications — Plural form of ossification.
  • pact of steel — a military alliance concluded between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on May 22, 1939, committing each to assist the other in the event of war with another power and pledging that neither would seek a separate peace or armistice.
  • parasoft corp — Distributors of the message passing system Express.
  • pontificators — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • ramifications — the act or process of ramifying.
  • rhesus factor — Rh factor.
  • russification — Russianize (defs 1, 2).
  • safety factor — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
  • scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
  • scarification — an act or instance of scarifying.
  • scimitar foot — any short leg or foot, as to a pedestal table, having the form of an arc tangent to the floor plane.
  • scorification — an assaying process whereby gold or silver is separated from ore by fusion with lead.
  • self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • sensate focus — a series of touching exercises designed to increase intimacy in a sexual relationship
  • shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
  • signification — meaning; import; sense.
  • significatory — serving to signify
  • simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
  • slash fiction — a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist: Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction. Also called slash.
  • social misfit — a person who does not conform to others' views of what is normal or acceptable in society
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • space fiction — a book, film, TV series, etc, set in outer space
  • specification — the act of specifying.
  • staff college — a training centre for executive military personnel
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