13-letter words containing c, o, e, f, i, n
- fugaciousness — (obsolete) fugacity.
- functionalise — to make functional.
- functionalize — to make functional.
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- furaciousness — the quality of being furacious or thievish
- genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
- geoscientific — relating to geoscience
- hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
- ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
- imperfections — A fault, blemish, or undesirable feature.
- in advance of — prior to
- in confidence — full trust; belief in the powers, trustworthiness, or reliability of a person or thing: We have every confidence in their ability to succeed.
- in one's face — directly opposite or against one
- in receipt of — If you are in receipt of something, you have received it or you receive it regularly.
- in respect of — with regard, with reference
- in the act of — while committing: crime, transgression
- in-capable of — not capable.
- inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
- inefficacious — not able to produce the desired effect; ineffective.
- inertia force — an imaginary force supposed to act upon an accelerated body, equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the resultant of the real forces
- inflorescence — a flowering or blossoming.
- informercials — Plural form of informercial.
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
- interfunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- jellification — The process or result of jellifying.
- john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
- landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
- legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
- line of force — an imaginary line representing a field of force, such as an electric or magnetic field, such that the tangent at any point is the direction of the field vector at that point
- lines of code — (programming, unit) (LOC) A common measure of the size or progress of a programming project. For example, one can describe a completed project as consisting of 100,000 LOC; or one can characterise a week's progress as 5000 LOC. Using LOC as a metric of progress encourages programmers to reinvent the wheel or split their code into lots of short lines.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- mellification — the production of honey from nectar
- memo function — (programming) (Or "memoised function") A function that remembers which arguments it has been called with and the result returned and, if called with the same arguments again, returns the result from its memory rather than recalculating it. Memo functions were invented by Professor Donald Michie of Edinburgh University. The idea was further developed by Robin Popplestone in his Pop2 language long before it was ever worked into LISP. This same principle is found at the hardware level in computer architectures which use a cache to store recently accessed memory locations. A Common Lisp package by Marty Hall <[email protected]> ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/Memoization.
- metafictional — Of, relating to, or being metafiction.
- metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
- metrification — metrication.
- microfilament — a minute, narrow tubelike cell structure composed of a protein similar to actin, occurring singly and in bundles, involved in cytoplasmic movement and changes in cell shape.
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- mole fraction — the ratio of the number of moles of a given component of a mixture to the total number of moles of all the components.
- montefiascone — a town in central Italy: wine-growing area.
- motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- naval officer — member of navy staff
- nectariferous — producing nectar.
- neo-confucian — of or relating to an eclectic philosophical movement of the 12th to the 16th centuries, incorporating Taoist and Buddhist elements with an adaptation of Confucianism.
- nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
- no-confidence — If members of an organization pass a vote or motion of no-confidence in someone, they take a vote which shows that they no longer support that person or their ideas.
- non-confident — having strong belief or full assurance; sure: confident of fulfillment.
- non-defective — having a defect or flaw; faulty; imperfect: a defective machine.