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13-letter words containing c, o, e, f

  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • fore clipping — a word formed by omitting the first part of the form from which it is derived.
  • foreconscious — the preconscious.
  • fork luncheon — déjeuner à la fourchette.
  • fort campbell — a military reservation in SW Kentucky and NW Tennessee, NW of Clarksville, Tenn., and SW of Hopkinsville, Ky.
  • fowling piece — a shotgun for shooting wildfowl.
  • fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
  • fractionalize — Divide (someone or something) into separate groups or parts.
  • fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
  • fracture zone — a long, narrow rift on the ocean floor, separating areas of differing depth: where such a zone crosses a mid-ocean ridge, it displaces the ridge by faulting.
  • france modern — an escutcheon blazoned as follows: Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or.
  • franche-comte — a former province in E France: once a part of Burgundy.
  • free electron — an electron that is not attached to an atom or molecule and is free to respond to outside forces.
  • freedom march — an organized march protesting a government's restriction of or lack of support for civil rights, especially such a march in support of racial integration in the U.S. in the 1960s.
  • french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
  • french window — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
  • friction feed — (printer)   A method some printers and plotters use to move paper by rotating one or both of a pair of spring-loaded rubber-coated rollers with the paper sandwiched between them. Friction feed printers are notorious for slipping when the rollers wear out, but can take standard typing paper. For printers with a sheet feeder, friction feed is more appropriate than sprocket feed which requires the holes in the paper to engage with the sprockets of the feed mechanism.
  • friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
  • friction pile — a pile depending on the friction of surrounding earth for support.
  • friction tape — a cloth or plastic adhesive tape, containing a moisture-resistant substance, used especially to insulate and protect electrical wires and conductors.
  • frontispieces — Plural form of frontispiece.
  • frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
  • fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
  • fugaciousness — (obsolete) fugacity.
  • fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
  • functionalise — to make functional.
  • functionalize — to make functional.
  • functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
  • furaciousness — the quality of being furacious or thievish
  • futtock plate — a metal plate placed perpendicular to the top of a ship's lower mast to hold the futtock shrouds.
  • genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
  • geoscientific — relating to geoscience
  • glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
  • golden fleece — a fleece of pure gold, kept at Colchis by King Aeëtes from whom it was stolen by Jason and the Argonauts with the help of Aeëtes's daughter, Medea.
  • ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
  • gyrofrequency — the frequency of rotation of an electron or other charged particle in a magnetic field, directly proportional to the charge of the particle and to the field strength and inversely proportional to the mass of the particle.
  • hair follicle — a small cavity in the epidermis and corium of the skin, from which a hair develops.
  • henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
  • herb of grace — rue2 .
  • herb-of-grace — rue2 .
  • home comforts — things in a house that make it comfortable
  • 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
  • hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
  • 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
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