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

  • isle of capri — Capri.
  • kiss of peace — (in certain Christian churches) a ceremonial greeting or embrace given as a token of Christian love and unity.
  • kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
  • 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.
  • lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
  • manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
  • market forces — factors driving the economy
  • meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
  • metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
  • microfelsitic — (of a rock) showing evidence of crystallization having begun, but not yet having formed any crystals
  • 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.
  • montefiascone — a town in central Italy: wine-growing area.
  • nectariferous — producing nectar.
  • nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
  • nonclassified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
  • nonconfession — The absence of a confession, or the refusal to confess.
  • nonconiferous — Not coniferous.
  • noninfectious — (of a disease or disease-causing organism) not liable to be transmitted through the environment.
  • nonscientific — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
  • ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
  • office seeker — a person who seeks appointment or election to some government position.
  • officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
  • officiousness — objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
  • offshore dock — a floating dock moored to pilings, dolphins, etc., used for cleaning and repairing medium-sized vessels.
  • olfactometers — Plural form of olfactometer.
  • on course for — If you are on course for something, you are likely to achieve it.
  • on sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
  • osmoconformer — Any marine invertebrate that maintains its internal salinity such that it is always equal to the surrounding seawater.
  • pact of steel — a military alliance concluded between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on May 22, 1939, committing each to assist the other in the event of war with another power and pledging that neither would seek a separate peace or armistice.
  • perfect storm — a detrimental or calamitous situation or event arising from the powerful combined effect of a unique set of circumstances: a perfect storm battering corporate pension plans.
  • perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
  • perfectionist — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
  • piece of piss — something easily obtained of achieved
  • piece of shit — despicable person
  • place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • postinfection — of, relating to or occurring in the period after infection
  • press officer — A press officer is a person who is employed by an organization to give information about that organization to the press.
  • profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
  • recomfortless — having no comfort; comfortless
  • reform school — reformatory (def 2).
  • resource fork — Macintosh file system
  • rhesus factor — Rh factor.
  • rose of china — China rose (def 2).
  • safety factor — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
  • scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
  • scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
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