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

  • ex post facto — having retrospective effect
  • facetiousness — (uncountable) The state of being facetious.
  • factory-fresh — coming directly from the factory; brand new
  • facts of life — any aspect of human existence that must be acknowledged or regarded as unalterable: Old age is a fact of life.
  • false colours — a flag to which one is not entitled, flown esp in order to deceive
  • false economy — an attempt to save money which actually leads to greater expense
  • fat electrons — (electronics, humour)   Old-time hacker David Cargill's theory on the cause of computer glitches. Your typical electricity company draws its line current out of the big generators with a pair of coil taps located near the top of the dynamo. When the normal tap brushes get dirty, they take them off line to clean them up, and use special auxiliary taps on the *bottom* of the coil. Now, this is a problem, because when they do that they get not ordinary or "thin" electrons, but the fat sloppy electrons that are heavier and so settle to the bottom of the generator. These flow down ordinary wires just fine, but when they have to turn a sharp corner (as in an integrated-circuit via), they're apt to get stuck. This is what causes computer glitches. Compare bogon, magic smoke.
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • feeder school — a junior school whose pupils go to a specific secondary school
  • felicitations — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
  • ferociousness — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
  • ferrosoferric — containing both a ferrous compound and a ferric compound
  • fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
  • fictionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fictionalize.
  • first officer — first mate.
  • flesh-colored — Something that is flesh-colored is yellowish pink in color.
  • fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
  • fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
  • focal seizure — an epileptic manifestation arising from a localized anomaly in the brain, as a small tumor or scar, and usually involving a single motor or sensory mechanism but occasionally spreading to other areas and causing convulsions and loss of consciousness.
  • foldoc source — The source text of FOLDOC is a single plain text file. FOLDOC is also available on paper from your local printer but, at 700,000+ words, that would be about 2000 pages.
  • food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
  • for chrissake — for Christ's sake
  • for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
  • force a smile — to make oneself smile
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • foreconscious — the preconscious.
  • fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
  • fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
  • french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
  • french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
  • frontispieces — Plural form of frontispiece.
  • frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
  • fugaciousness — (obsolete) fugacity.
  • functionalise — 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
  • henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
  • 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
  • ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
  • imperfections — A fault, blemish, or undesirable feature.
  • in one's face — directly opposite or against one
  • in respect of — with regard, with reference
  • inefficacious — not able to produce the desired effect; ineffective.
  • inflorescence — a flowering or blossoming.
  • informercials — Plural form of informercial.
  • infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
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