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