13-letter words containing f, a, l, c, i, e
- 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.
- fault breccia — angular rock fragments produced by fracture and grinding during faulting and distributed within or adjacent to the fault plane.
- felicitations — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
- 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.
- 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.
- finite clause — a clause with a finite verb in its predicate.
- 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.
- fixed capital — capital goods, as machinery and tools, that are relatively durable and can be used repeatedly in the production of goods.
- flame cutting — a method of cutting ferrous metals in which the metal is heated by a torch to about 800°C and is oxidized by a stream of oxygen from the torch
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- floatcut file — file with rows of parallel teeth
- 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.
- 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.
- flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
- 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.
- force a smile — to make oneself smile
- fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
- fractionalize — Divide (someone or something) into separate groups or parts.
- functionalise — to make functional.
- functionalize — to make functional.
- hair follicle — a small cavity in the epidermis and corium of the skin, from which a hair develops.
- 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
- impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
- in-capable of — not capable.
- inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
- ineffectually — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
- influenceable — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
- informercials — Plural form of informercial.
- interfaceable — Capable of being interfaced.
- isle of capri — Capri.
- jellification — The process or result of jellifying.
- landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
- legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
- let's face it — You use the expression 'let's face it' when you are stating a fact or making a comment about something which you think the person you are talking to may find unpleasant or be unwilling to admit.
- liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
- life is cheap — You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
- life-changing — having major impact on sb
- liquefacients — Plural form of liquefacient.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- lucifer match — friction match.
- magnetic flux — the total magnetic induction crossing a surface, equal to the integral of the component of magnetic induction perpendicular to the surface over the surface: usually measured in webers or maxwells.