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12-letter words containing c, o, n, f, r, t

  • electro-funk — a type of electronic music, originating in the 1980s, characterized by the use of synthesizers with a heavy rhythm and punctuated bass, often influenced by the genres of funk and hip-hop
  • end effector — The end effector of an actuator is the part that comes into contact with the object being moved or controlled.
  • enforcements — Plural form of enforcement.
  • fabrications — Plural form of fabrication.
  • fibrinolytic — the disintegration or dissolution of fibrin, especially by enzymatic action.
  • field cornet — a commander of burgher troops called up in time of war or in an emergency, esp during the 19th century
  • fire control — technical and sometimes automatic supervision of artillery or naval gunfire on a target, as for range, elevation, etc.
  • first cousin — cousin (def 1).
  • flow control — (communications, protocol)   The collection of techniques used in serial communications to stop the sender sending data until the receiver can accept it. This may be either software flow control or hardware flow control. The receiver typically has a fixed size buffer into which received data is written as soon as it is received. When the amount of buffered data exceeds a "high water mark", the receiver will signal to the transmitter to stop transmitting until the process reading the data has read sufficient data from the buffer that it has reached its "low water mark", at which point the receiver signals to the transmitter to resume transmission.
  • flow country — an area of moorland and peat bogs in northern Scotland known for its wildlife, now partly afforested
  • flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
  • fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
  • fm cyclotron — a type of cyclotron that synchronizes its accelerating voltage with particle velocity in order to compensate for the relativistic mass increase of the particle as it approaches the speed of light.
  • food counter — a counter in a shop, bar, cafeteria, etc where food is sold or served
  • for instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
  • for-instance — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
  • forced entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
  • fornications — Plural form of fornication.
  • fornicatress — (obsolete) A woman guilty of fornication.
  • fort collins — a city in N Colorado.
  • fort jackson — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in N central South Carolina, NE of Columbia.
  • fort mchenry — a town in NE Illinois.
  • fort pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
  • fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • forty-second — next after the forty-first; being the ordinal number for 42.
  • fractionally — pertaining to fractions; comprising a part or the parts of a unit; constituting a fraction: fractional numbers.
  • fractionated — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionate.
  • fractionator — Chemistry. an apparatus for fractional distillation. Compare cracker (def 10).
  • french toast — bread dipped in a batter of egg and milk and sautéed until brown, usually served with syrup or sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
  • friction rub — the sound, heard through a stethoscope, made by the rubbing together of the two inflamed layers of pericardium in patients with pericarditis or of pleura in patients with pleurisy
  • friction saw — a high-speed circular saw, usually toothless, that is used for cutting metals by using frictional heat to melt the material adjacent to it.
  • frictionally — In terms of friction.
  • frictionless — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
  • friend-court — amicus curiae.
  • front office — the executive or administrative office of a company, organization, etc.
  • frontbencher — (politics) one who sits on the front bench in a parliament. Typically the spokesmen for those who sit further back.
  • frontispiece — an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
  • fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
  • hyperfiction — nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.
  • imperfection — an imperfect detail; flaw: a law full of imperfections.
  • inconformity — lack of conformity; failure or refusal to conform; nonconformity.
  • inflorescent — Of, pertaining to or causing inflorescence.
  • infraduction — (medicine) The turning downward of a part, especially of the eye.
  • inter-office — functioning or communicating between the offices of a company or organization; within a company: an interoffice memo.
  • irreflection — lack of careful or long consideration
  • lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
  • narcotraffic — Traffic in narcotics.
  • no match for — If one person or thing is no match for another, they are unable to compete successfully with the other person or thing.
  • noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
  • non-friction — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
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