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13-letter words containing f, a, c, e

  • extractor fan — a fan used in kitchens, bathrooms, workshops, etc, to remove stale air or fumes
  • fabric filter — A fabric filter is a type of filter in which solids are removed from a gas by passing it though a fabric.
  • face painting — art of decorating the face with paint
  • face validity — the extent to which a psychological test appears to measure what it is intended to measure
  • face-centered — (of a crystal structure) having lattice points on the faces of the unit cells.
  • facetiousness — (uncountable) The state of being facetious.
  • facial eczema — a disease of sheep and cattle, occurring in warm areas of North Island, New Zealand. It is caused by a fungus, Pithomyces chartarum, and causes impairment of liver function and reddening, itching, scab formation, and swelling of the skin, esp on the face
  • facial tissue — a soft, disposable paper tissue especially for cleansing the face or for use as a handkerchief.
  • factionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of factionalize.
  • factory price — the price quoted for manufactured goods for pickup at the gate of a factory, before certain handling, shipping, and similar costs.
  • factory-fresh — coming directly from the factory; brand new
  • facts of life — any aspect of human existence that must be acknowledged or regarded as unalterable: Old age is a fact of life.
  • facultatively — In a facultative manner.
  • falcon-gentle — the female peregrine falcon.
  • false colours — a flag to which one is not entitled, flown esp in order to deceive
  • false economy — an attempt to save money which actually leads to greater expense
  • family circle — the closely related members of a family as a group.
  • family credit — (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
  • fanaticalness — Fanaticism.
  • farmer cheese — a cheese made by pressing together the soft white curds of whole milk or partly skimmed milk, similar in texture to dry cottage cheese.
  • 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.
  • fault breccia — angular rock fragments produced by fracture and grinding during faulting and distributed within or adjacent to the fault plane.
  • fault current — A fault current is a current that results from a fault.
  • feather tract — pteryla.
  • featherstitch — an embroidery stitch producing work in which a succession of branches extend alternately on each side of a central stem.
  • feature creep — creeping featurism
  • 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.
  • federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
  • feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
  • feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
  • felicitations — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
  • female condom — a type of condom used by women and inserted into the vagina
  • fencing match — a match between fencers
  • ferricyanogen — (chemistry) A hexavalent radical, Fe2(CN)12, a compound of cyanogen and iron in the ferric state.
  • ferrimagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as a ferrite, in which the magnetic moments of some neighboring atoms point in opposite directions, with a net magnetization still resulting because of differences in magnitudes of the opposite moments.
  • ferrocyanogen — a ferrocyanide radical
  • ferromagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
  • ferry company — a company that operates a ferry or ferries
  • feta (cheese) — a soft, white cheese first made in Greece
  • fibre channel — (storage, networking, communications)   An ANSI standard originally intended for high-speed SANs connecting servers, disc arrays, and backup devices, also later adapted to form the physical layer of Gigabit Ethernet. Development work on Fibre channel started in 1988 and it was approved by the ANSI standards committee in 1994, running at 100Mb/s. More recent innovations have seen the speed of Fibre Channel SANs increase to 10Gb/s. Several topologies are possible with Fibre Channel, the most popular being a number of devices attached to one (or two, for redundancy) central Fibre Channel switches, creating a reliable infrastructure that allows servers to share storage arrays or tape libraries. One common use of Fibre Channel SANs is for high availability databaseq clusters where two servers are connected to one highly reliable RAID array. Should one server fail, the other server can mount the array itself and continue operations with minimal downtime and loss of data. Other advanced features include the ability to have servers and hard drives seperated by hundreds of miles or to rapidly mirror data between servers and hard drives, perhaps in seperate geographic locations.
  • 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.
  • fictionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fictionalize.
  • fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
  • 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.
  • filter factor — a number indicating the increased exposure that a particular film should receive when a photograph is taken using a particular filter.
  • finback whale — rorqual
  • 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.
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