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

  • 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
  • isle of capri — Capri.
  • justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
  • 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.
  • lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
  • manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
  • market forces — factors driving the economy
  • 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.
  • microsoft dos — Microsoft Disk Operating System
  • microsoft iis — Internet Information Server
  • misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
  • nectariferous — producing nectar.
  • nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
  • noncolourfast — (of a fabric) having a colour that tends to fade when washed or worn
  • 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.
  • nonconiferous — Not coniferous.
  • office seeker — a person who seeks appointment or election to some government position.
  • officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
  • 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.
  • parasoft corp — Distributors of the message passing system Express.
  • 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.
  • place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
  • pontificators — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • ramifications — the act or process of ramifying.
  • 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).
  • russification — Russianize (defs 1, 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.
  • san francisco — a seaport in W California, on San Francisco Bay: earthquake and fire 1906; United Nations Conference 1945.
  • sao francisco — a river flowing NE and E through E Brazil into the Atlantic. 1800 miles (2900 km) long.
  • scalariformly — in a scalariform or ladder-like manner
  • 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
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