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13-letter words containing c, s, f

  • fast-tracking — the practice of speeding up the progress of a project or person
  • fat electrons — (electronics, humour)   Old-time hacker David Cargill's theory on the cause of computer glitches. Your typical electricity company draws its line current out of the big generators with a pair of coil taps located near the top of the dynamo. When the normal tap brushes get dirty, they take them off line to clean them up, and use special auxiliary taps on the *bottom* of the coil. Now, this is a problem, because when they do that they get not ordinary or "thin" electrons, but the fat sloppy electrons that are heavier and so settle to the bottom of the generator. These flow down ordinary wires just fine, but when they have to turn a sharp corner (as in an integrated-circuit via), they're apt to get stuck. This is what causes computer glitches. Compare bogon, magic smoke.
  • faunistically — in a faunistic manner
  • featherstitch — an embroidery stitch producing work in which a succession of branches extend alternately on each side of a central stem.
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • febrifacients — Plural form of febrifacient.
  • feeder school — a junior school whose pupils go to a specific secondary school
  • feinschmecker — gourmet.
  • felicitations — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
  • fencelessness — Lack of fences.
  • ferociousness — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
  • ferrosoferric — containing both a ferrous compound and a ferric compound
  • festschriften — Plural form of festschrift.
  • feta (cheese) — a soft, white cheese first made in Greece
  • fibromuscular — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to both fibrous and muscular tissue.
  • fibrovascular — composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants: a fibrovascular bundle.
  • fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
  • fictionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fictionalize.
  • fiddlesticks! — an expression of annoyance or disagreement
  • fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
  • field service — military service performed in the field
  • film sequence — a short piece of film or extract from a film, depicting a specific action or event
  • fin de siecle — the end of the 19th century.
  • fingal's cave — a cave on the island of Staffa, in the Hebrides, Scotland. 227 feet (69 meters) long; 42 feet (13 meters) wide.
  • finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
  • finite clause — a clause with a finite verb in its predicate.
  • fireside chat — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
  • firmer chisel — a narrow-bladed chisel for paring and mortising, driven by hand pressure or with a mallet.
  • first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
  • first officer — first mate.
  • fish hatchery — a facility where fish eggs are hatched and the fry raised, especially to stock lakes, streams, and ponds.
  • fishing smack — any of various fore-and-aft-rigged fishing vessels of rather large size, often containing a well to keep the catch alive.
  • flash fiction — very short works of fiction that are typically no longer than a couple of pages and may be as short as one paragraph.
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
  • flesh-colored — Something that is flesh-colored is yellowish pink in color.
  • floor cushion — a cushion placed on the floor of a room for people to sit on
  • floristically — In a floristic manner.
  • floutingstock — a laughing-stock; the object of mockery or flouting
  • fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
  • fluorocarbons — Plural form of fluorocarbon.
  • fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
  • fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
  • fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.
  • fluoroscopist — One who carries out fluoroscopy.
  • flying circus — a squadron of airplanes operating together, especially any of several squadrons of famous World War I aviators.
  • flying colors — with flying colors, with an overwhelming victory, triumph, or success: He passed the test with flying colors.
  • flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
  • focal seizure — an epileptic manifestation arising from a localized anomaly in the brain, as a small tumor or scar, and usually involving a single motor or sensory mechanism but occasionally spreading to other areas and causing convulsions and loss of consciousness.
  • foldoc source — The source text of FOLDOC is a single plain text file. FOLDOC is also available on paper from your local printer but, at 700,000+ words, that would be about 2000 pages.
  • folkloristics — folklore (def 2).
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