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12-letter words containing c, o, f, e, r

  • discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
  • discomforted — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • discomforter — One who causes discomfort.
  • disconfirmed — Simple past tense and past participle of disconfirm.
  • 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
  • duty officer — In the police or armed forces, a duty officer is an officer who is on duty at a particular time.
  • dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
  • eco-friendly — environmentally safe
  • efflorescent — efflorescing; blossoming.
  • efflorescing — Present participle of effloresce.
  • electro-funk — a type of electronic music, originating in the 1980s, characterized by the use of synthesizers with a heavy rhythm and punctuated bass, often influenced by the genres of funk and hip-hop
  • electrofluor — a transparent material that stores electrical energy and subsequently releases it as light
  • end effector — The end effector of an actuator is the part that comes into contact with the object being moved or controlled.
  • enforcements — Plural form of enforcement.
  • factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
  • factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
  • 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
  • farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
  • fast reactor — a nuclear reactor using little or no moderator, fission being caused by fast neutrons
  • 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.
  • ferric oxide — a dark-red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, Fe 2 O 3 , occurring naturally, as hematite and rust, or synthesized: used chiefly as a pigment, as a mordant, as a coating for magnetic recording tape, and in the manufacture of polishing compounds.
  • ferrite core — a ferrite magnetic core used in a core memory.
  • ferrocyanide — a salt of ferrocyanic acid, as potassium ferrocyanide, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 .
  • ferrofluidic — Of or pertaining to a ferrofluid.
  • ferrosilicon — a ferroalloy containing up to 95 percent silicon.
  • fiber optics — the branch of optics that deals with the transmission of light through transparent fibers, as in the form of pulses for the transmission of data or communications, or through fiber bundles for the transmission of images.
  • fibre optics — optical fibre
  • fibrinogenic — producing fibrin.
  • fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
  • field cornet — a commander of burgher troops called up in time of war or in an emergency, esp during the 19th century
  • fire company — a company of firefighters.
  • fire control — technical and sometimes automatic supervision of artillery or naval gunfire on a target, as for range, elevation, etc.
  • flag officer — a naval officer above the rank of captain, as a fleet admiral, admiral, vice-admiral, rear admiral, or commodore, who is entitled to display a flag indicating his or her rank.
  • flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
  • flesh colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person
  • flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
  • floor pocket — one of several metal boxes placed backstage in the floor (floor pocket) or wall of a theater and containing jacks for electric cables used in lighting units.
  • floriculture — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
  • flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
  • flower child — (especially in the 1960s) a young person, especially a hippie, rejecting conventional society and advocating love, peace, and simple, idealistic values.
  • flowerpecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
  • fluoresceine — Alternative spelling of fluorescein.
  • fluorescence — the emission of radiation, especially of visible light, by a substance during exposure to external radiation, as light or x-rays. Compare phosphorescence (def 1).
  • fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
  • fluorimetric — Alternative form of fluorometric.
  • fluorochrome — any of a group of fluorescent dyes used to label biological material.
  • fluorometric — Of, pertaining to, or measured using fluorometry.
  • fluoroscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoroscope.
  • fluoroscopes — Plural form of fluoroscope.
  • focus puller — the member of a camera crew who adjusts the focus of the lens as the camera is tracked in or out
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