13-letter words containing d, e, f, n, c
- edison effect — the phenomenon of the flow of electric current when an electrode sealed inside the bulb of an incandescent lamp is connected to the positive terminal of the lamp.
- face-centered — (of a crystal structure) having lattice points on the faces of the unit cells.
- factionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of factionalize.
- female condom — a type of condom used by women and inserted into the vagina
- fence-mending — the practice of reestablishing or strengthening personal, business, or political contacts and relationships by conciliation or negotiation, as after a dispute, disagreement, or period of inactivity.
- fickle-minded — (of a person) prone to casual change; inconstant.
- fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
- fictionalized — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
- field captain — a member of a team taking active part in a game who is authorized to make decisions for the team, especially in regard to planning plays, deciding whether to accept penalties called by an official against the opponents, etc.
- field kitchen — the place at which the food for a unit of soldiers in the field is prepared
- fin de siecle — the end of the 19th century.
- finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
- folk medicine — health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, especially food substances.
- france modern — an escutcheon blazoned as follows: Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or.
- french canada — the areas of Canada, esp in the province of Quebec, where French Canadians predominate
- french endive — endive (def 2).
- 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.
- 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.
- fuel-injected — (of an engine) having fuel injection.
- genetic drift — random changes in the frequency of alleles in a gene pool, usually of small populations.
- golden fleece — a fleece of pure gold, kept at Colchis by King Aeëtes from whom it was stolen by Jason and the Argonauts with the help of Aeëtes's daughter, Medea.
- ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
- handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
- hefner candle — a German unit of luminous intensity, equal to 0.92 of a candela.
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- ile de france — a former province in N France, including Paris and the region around it.
- Île-de-france — a region of N France, in the Paris Basin: part of the duchy of France in the 10th century
- in advance of — prior to
- in confidence — full trust; belief in the powers, trustworthiness, or reliability of a person or thing: We have every confidence in their ability to succeed.
- in-difference — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
- indifferences — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
- landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
- latent defect — hidden fault, undiscovered flaw
- lines of code — (programming, unit) (LOC) A common measure of the size or progress of a programming project. For example, one can describe a completed project as consisting of 100,000 LOC; or one can characterise a week's progress as 5000 LOC. Using LOC as a metric of progress encourages programmers to reinvent the wheel or split their code into lots of short lines.
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
- mendes-france — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1907–1982, French statesman and economist: premier 1954–55.
- middle french — the French language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. Abbreviation: MF.
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- modern french — the French language since c1600.
- mundificative — a cleansing medicine or preparation
- neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
- no-confidence — If members of an organization pass a vote or motion of no-confidence in someone, they take a vote which shows that they no longer support that person or their ideas.
- non-confident — having strong belief or full assurance; sure: confident of fulfillment.
- non-defective — having a defect or flaw; faulty; imperfect: a defective machine.
- non-inflected — to modulate (the voice).
- nonclassified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
- nonconfidence — a motion of parliament expressing a lack of confidence in the government
- overconfident — too confident.
- oxford accent — the accent associated with Oxford English