13-letter words containing c, o, e, f, i
- 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
- hair follicle — a small cavity in the epidermis and corium of the skin, from which a hair develops.
- host-specific — capable of living solely on or in one species of host, as a parasite that infests only chickens.
- house officer — a doctor who is the most junior member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually resident in the hospital
- 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.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- 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.
- isle of capri — Capri.
- jellification — The process or result of jellifying.
- john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
- kiss of peace — (in certain Christian churches) a ceremonial greeting or embrace given as a token of Christian love and unity.
- 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.
- little office — (sometimes initial capital letters) Roman Catholic Church. an office similar to but shorter than the divine office, in honor of a saint, a mystery, or, especially, the Virgin Mary.
- 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.
- microfelsitic — (of a rock) showing evidence of crystallization having begun, but not yet having formed any crystals
- 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.
- microfilariae — the embryonic larva of the nematode parasite Filaria or of related genera, especially of those species that cause heartworm in dogs and elephantiasis in humans.
- microfilmable — Suitable for storage on microfilm.
- microfloppies — 3.5-inch floppies, as opposed to 5.25-inch vanilla or mini-floppies and the now-obsolete 8-inch variety. This term may be headed for obsolescence as 5.25-inchers pass out of use, only to be revived if anybody floats a sub-3-inch floppy standard. See stiffy, minifloppies.
- 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.