13-letter words containing c, o, n, a, r, i
- factorisation — Alternative spelling of factorization.
- factorization — Mathematics. to resolve into factors.
- fantasmagoric — phantasmagoria.
- ferricyanogen — (chemistry) A hexavalent radical, Fe2(CN)12, a compound of cyanogen and iron in the ferric state.
- ferromagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
- firnification — the process by which snow changes into névé.
- flying boxcar — a large airplane designed to carry cargo.
- folding chair — a chair that can be collapsed flat for easy storage or transport.
- fonctionnaire — a civil servant
- for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- fortification — the act of fortifying or strengthening.
- fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
- fractionalism — the state of being separate or inharmonious
- fractionalist — an advocate or supporter of fractionalism
- fractionalize — Divide (someone or something) into separate groups or parts.
- fractionating — Present participle of fractionate.
- fractionation — the act or process of fractionating.
- fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- francis bacon — Francis (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans) 1561–1626, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.
- 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 tape — a cloth or plastic adhesive tape, containing a moisture-resistant substance, used especially to insulate and protect electrical wires and conductors.
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- furaciousness — the quality of being furacious or thievish
- galvanometric — Of or pertaining to galvanometry.
- garcia moreno — Gabriel [gey-bree-uh l,, gah-bree-el;; Spanish gah-vree-el] /ˈgeɪ bri əl,, ˌgɑ briˈɛl;; Spanish ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1821–75, Ecuadorian journalist and political leader: president of Ecuador 1861–65; 1869–75.
- gastrocnemius — the largest muscle in the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot, raises the heel, and assists in bending the knee.
- gastroenteric — Gastrointestinal.
- gastrokinetic — (pharmacology, of a drug) Serving to increase motility of the gastrointestinal tract.
- gastronomical — the art or science of good eating.
- gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
- ge-pano-carib — a linguistic phylum comprising a large number of aboriginal languages with scattered distribution in South America east of the Andes.
- geometricians — Plural form of geometrician.
- gerontocratic — government by a council of elders.
- glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- goliath crane — a gantry crane for heavy work, as in steel mills.
- gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
- good riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
- grain alcohol — alcohol (def 1).
- graminicolous — (esp of parasitic fungi) living on grass
- granodioritic — relating to granodiorite
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- graticulation — the division of a design, plan, etc into squares in order to improve the accuracy of enlargement or reduction
- gratification — the state of being gratified; great satisfaction.
- great council — (in Norman England) an assembly composed of the king's tenants in chief that served as the principal council of the realm and replaced the witenagemot.
- greater ionic — Architecture. noting or pertaining to one of the five classical orders that in ancient Greece consisted of a fluted column with a molded base and a capital composed of four volutes, usually parallel to the architrave with a pulvinus connecting a pair on each side of the column, and an entablature typically consisting of an architrave of three fascias, a richly ornamented frieze, and a cornice corbeled out on egg-and-dart and dentil moldings, with the frieze sometimes omitted. Roman and Renaissance examples are often more elaborate, and usually set the volutes of the capitals at 45° to the architrave. Compare composite (def 3), Corinthian (def 2), Doric (def 3), Tuscan (def 2).
- group captain — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a wing commander but junior to an air commodore in the RAF and certain other air forces
- gynecocracies — Plural form of gynecocracy.
- hallucinatory — pertaining to or characterized by hallucination: hallucinatory visions.
- harmonic mean — the mean obtained by taking the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of a set of nonzero numbers.