13-letter words containing c, o, n, f, i, r
- french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
- french window — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
- friction feed — (printer) A method some printers and plotters use to move paper by rotating one or both of a pair of spring-loaded rubber-coated rollers with the paper sandwiched between them. Friction feed printers are notorious for slipping when the rollers wear out, but can take standard typing paper. For printers with a sheet feeder, friction feed is more appropriate than sprocket feed which requires the holes in the paper to engage with the sprockets of the feed mechanism.
- 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 pile — a pile depending on the friction of surrounding earth for support.
- friction tape — a cloth or plastic adhesive tape, containing a moisture-resistant substance, used especially to insulate and protect electrical wires and conductors.
- frontispieces — Plural form of frontispiece.
- fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
- function room — a room designated for official or formal social gatherings or ceremonies
- function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- furaciousness — the quality of being furacious or thievish
- glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
- gratification — the state of being gratified; great satisfaction.
- honorifically — In a honorific manner.
- horrification — That which causes horror.
- hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
- imperfections — A fault, blemish, or undesirable feature.
- in receipt of — If you are in receipt of something, you have received it or you receive it regularly.
- in respect of — with regard, with reference
- inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
- inertia force — an imaginary force supposed to act upon an accelerated body, equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the resultant of the real forces
- inflorescence — a flowering or blossoming.
- informatician — a person who works or studies in the field of informatics
- informercials — Plural form of informercial.
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
- infructuously — in an infructuous or unfruitful manner; fruitlessly
- inns of court — (in England) the four private unincorporated societies in London that function as a law school and have the exclusive privilege of calling candidates to the English bar
- interfunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
- line of force — an imaginary line representing a field of force, such as an electric or magnetic field, such that the tangent at any point is the direction of the field vector at that point
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- metrification — metrication.
- 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.
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- 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.
- 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.
- naval officer — member of navy staff
- nectariferous — producing nectar.
- nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
- nitrification — the act of nitrifying.
- non-fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- nonartificial — Not artificial.
- 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.