13-letter words containing c, o, m, f
- meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
- mellification — the production of honey from nectar
- memo function — (programming) (Or "memoised function") A function that remembers which arguments it has been called with and the result returned and, if called with the same arguments again, returns the result from its memory rather than recalculating it. Memo functions were invented by Professor Donald Michie of Edinburgh University. The idea was further developed by Robin Popplestone in his Pop2 language long before it was ever worked into LISP. This same principle is found at the hardware level in computer architectures which use a cache to store recently accessed memory locations. A Common Lisp package by Marty Hall <[email protected]> ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/Memoization.
- metafictional — Of, relating to, or being metafiction.
- metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
- metrification — metrication.
- microfelsitic — (of a rock) showing evidence of crystallization having begun, but not yet having formed any crystals
- microfilament — a minute, narrow tubelike cell structure composed of a protein similar to actin, occurring singly and in bundles, involved in cytoplasmic movement and changes in cell shape.
- microfilariae — the embryonic larva of the nematode parasite Filaria or of related genera, especially of those species that cause heartworm in dogs and elephantiasis in humans.
- microfilarial — relating to, or emanating from, microfilariae
- microfilmable — Suitable for storage on microfilm.
- 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.
- microsoft dos — Microsoft Disk Operating System
- microsoft iis — Internet Information Server
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- modern french — the French language since c1600.
- modifications — Plural form of modification.
- mole fraction — the ratio of the number of moles of a given component of a mixture to the total number of moles of all the components.
- mollification — to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.
- montefiascone — a town in central Italy: wine-growing area.
- mortification — a feeling of humiliation or shame, as through some injury to one's pride or self-respect.
- motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- multifactoral — Involving multiple factors.
- multifunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- mummification — to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying.
- mundification — the act of cleansing a wound
- munroe effect — the reinforcement of shock waves in the concave, hollow end of a shaped charge, producing a greater resultant wave and concentrating the explosion along the axis of the charge.
- myelofibrotic — of, relating to or affected by myelofibrosis
- mystification — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- mythification — to create a myth about (a person, place, tradition, etc.); cause to become a myth.
- nonconforming — to act in accordance or harmony; comply (usually followed by to): to conform to rules.
- nonconformism — The refusal to conform to common standards, conventions, rules, traditions or laws.
- nonconformist — a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
- nonconformity — failure or refusal to conform, as with established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
- norman french — Also called Norman. the French dialect of the Normans or of Normandy.
- not much of a — If you describe something as not much of a particular type of thing, you mean that it is small or of poor quality.
- olfactometers — Plural form of olfactometer.
- olfactometric — Of or pertaining to olfactometry.
- orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
- orifice meter — a plate having a central hole that is placed across the flow of a liquid, usually between flanges in a pipeline. The pressure difference generated by the flow velocity through the hole enables the flow quantity to be measured
- osmoconformer — Any marine invertebrate that maintains its internal salinity such that it is always equal to the surrounding seawater.
- palmification — the fertilization of date palms artificially
- peace of mind — reassurance
- penicilliform — in the shape of a pencil or paintbrush
- 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.
- piece of meat — the flesh of animals as used for food.
- place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
- potomac fever — the determination or fervor to share in the power and prestige of the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., especially by being appointed or elected to a government position.
- ramifications — the act or process of ramifying.