13-letter words containing f, a, i, r, c
- disfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfranchise.
- disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
- ear infection — an infection that affects the ear
- enfranchising — Present participle of enfranchise.
- fabric filter — A fabric filter is a type of filter in which solids are removed from a gas by passing it though a fabric.
- fabric ribbon — a typewriter ribbon made of inked material
- fabricability — able to be formed or shaped; capable of being constructed or manufactured.
- factorisation — Alternative spelling of factorization.
- factorization — Mathematics. to resolve into factors.
- factory price — the price quoted for manufactured goods for pickup at the gate of a factory, before certain handling, shipping, and similar costs.
- 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
- family doctor — a general practitioner.
- fantasmagoric — phantasmagoria.
- fast-tracking — the practice of speeding up the progress of a project or person
- fault breccia — angular rock fragments produced by fracture and grinding during faulting and distributed within or adjacent to the fault plane.
- featherstitch — an embroidery stitch producing work in which a succession of branches extend alternately on each side of a central stem.
- febrifacients — Plural form of febrifacient.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- filter factor — a number indicating the increased exposure that a particular film should receive when a photograph is taken using a particular filter.
- final curtain — end of a theatre performance
- finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
- fire watching — the job of watching for fires, especially those caused by aerial bombardment
- fireside chat — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
- firnification — the process by which snow changes into névé.
- first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- fish hatchery — a facility where fish eggs are hatched and the fry raised, especially to stock lakes, streams, and ponds.
- fitted carpet — wall-to-wall carpeting
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- floricultural — Of or pertaining to floriculture.
- floristically — In a floristic manner.
- fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
- fluorographic — of or pertaining to fluorography
- fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
- flying boxcar — a large airplane designed to carry cargo.
- 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.
- folding chair — a chair that can be collapsed flat for easy storage or transport.
- fonctionnaire — a civil servant
- for a kickoff — the beginning of something
- for chrissake — for Christ's sake
- for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- force a smile — to make oneself smile
- formulaically — made according to a formula; composed of formulas: a formulaic plot.