12-letter words containing c, e, f, a
- double-faced — practicing duplicity; hypocritical.
- duncan phyfe — of, relating to, or resembling the furniture made by Duncan Phyfe, especially the earlier pieces in the Sheraton and Directoire styles.
- duty of care — the legal obligation to safeguard others from harm while they are in your care, using your services, or exposed to your activities
- dwarf cherry — any of several low, North American cherries that grow on dry or sandy soil, especially Prunus pumila, of the Great Lakes region.
- dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
- east african — of or relating to East Africa or its inhabitants
- edifications — Plural form of edification.
- effectuality — producing or capable of producing an intended effect; adequate.
- effectuating — Present participle of effectuate.
- effectuation — to bring about; effect.
- eliza effect — (jargon) /e-li:'z* *-fekt'/ (From ELIZA) The tendency of humans to attach associations to terms from prior experience. For example, there is nothing magic about the symbol "+" that makes it well-suited to indicate addition; it's just that people associate it with addition. Using "+" or "plus" to mean addition in a computer language is taking advantage of the ELIZA effect. The ELIZA effect is a Good Thing when writing a programming language, but it can blind you to serious shortcomings when analysing an Artificial Intelligence system. Compare ad-hockery; see also AI-complete.
- enfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of enfranchise.
- enfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enfranchise.
- entrance fee — cost of admission
- escape shaft — a shaft in a mine through which miners can escape if the regular shaft is blocked
- exsufflicate — Empty, inflated, frivolous.
- face down/up — If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
- face flannel — washcloth
- face to face — with the fronts or faces toward each other, especially when close together.
- face-centred — (of a crystal) having a lattice point at the centre of each face of each unit cell as well as at the corners
- face-to-face — with the fronts or faces toward each other, especially when close together.
- facebook.com — (web) One of the most popular social networking websites.
- facelessness — The state or condition of being faceless.
- facial angle — Craniometry. the angle formed by a line from nasion to prosthion at its intersection with the plane of the Frankfurt horizontal.
- facial index — Craniometry. the ratio of the breadth of a face to its height.
- facial nerve — either one of the seventh pair of cranial nerves composed of motor fibers that control muscles of the face except those used in chewing.
- facilitative — to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
- fact of life — any aspect of human existence that must be acknowledged or regarded as unalterable: Old age is a fact of life.
- factionalize — (especially of a political party or other organized group) split or divide into factions.
- factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
- factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
- factualities — of or relating to facts; concerning facts: factual accuracy.
- fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
- false acacia — black locust.
- false cirrus — a type of thick cirrus cloud spreading from the top of a cumulonimbus cloud
- false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
- false-acacia — Also called false acacia, yellow locust. a North American tree, Robinia pseudoacacia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and clusters of fragrant white flowers.
- fancifulness — The quality of being fanciful.
- fantasticate — to make or render fantastic.
- far-reaching — extending far in influence, effect, etc.: the far-reaching effect of his speech.
- faraday cage — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
- farcicalness — The property of being farcical.
- farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
- fasciculated — Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
- fascinatedly — In a fascinated manner; with fascination.
- fast reactor — a nuclear reactor using little or no moderator, fission being caused by fast neutrons
- fast-tracker — of or relating to the fast track.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.