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

  • microfilarial — relating to, or emanating from, microfilariae
  • microfilmable — Suitable for storage on microfilm.
  • miracle fruit — the berrylike fruit of either of two African shrubs, Synsepalum dulcificum or Thaumatococcus daniellii, that, when chewed, causes sour substances to taste sweet.
  • misclassified — to arrange or organize by classes; order according to class.
  • mole fraction — the ratio of the number of moles of a given component of a mixture to the total number of moles of all the components.
  • mollification — to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.
  • multi-faceted — having many facets, as a gem.
  • multifactoral — Involving multiple factors.
  • naval officer — member of navy staff
  • nonartificial — Not artificial.
  • nonbeneficial — Not beneficial; that produces no benefit.
  • nonclassified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
  • noncolourfast — (of a fabric) having a colour that tends to fade when washed or worn
  • nonfunctional — Not having any particular purpose or function.
  • nuclear force — strong interaction
  • nullification — an act or instance of nullifying.
  • olfactologist — a medical specialist in the sense of smell
  • olfactometers — Plural form of olfactometer.
  • olfactometric — Of or pertaining to olfactometry.
  • optical fiber — optical fibre
  • optical fibre — (communications)   (fibre optics, FO, US "fiber", light pipe) A plastic or glass (silicon dioxide) fibre no thicker than a human hair used to transmit information using infra-red or even visible light as the carrier (usually a laser). The light beam is an electromagnetic signal with a frequency in the range of 10^14 to 10^15 Hertz. Optical fibre is less susceptible to external noise than other transmission media, and is cheaper to make than copper wire, but it is much more difficult to connect. Optical fibres are difficult to tamper with (to monitor or inject data in the middle of a connection), making them appropriate for secure communications. The light beams do not escape from the medium because the material used provides total internal reflection. See also FDDI, Optical Carrier n, SONET.
  • optical flint — an optical glass of high dispersion and high refractive index containing lead oxide. They are used in the manufacture of lenses, artificial gems, and cut glass
  • orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
  • pacific plate — Geology. one of the major tectonic divisions of the earth's crust, comprising four sea-floor basins; separated from the Nazca, Cocos, and North and South American plates by the East Pacific Rise and San Andreas fault and bounded in the western Pacific Ocean by a series of major ocean deeps, including the Kuril, Japan, Mariana, Kermadec, and Tonga trenches.
  • pact of steel — a military alliance concluded between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on May 22, 1939, committing each to assist the other in the event of war with another power and pledging that neither would seek a separate peace or armistice.
  • palmification — the fertilization of date palms artificially
  • patrifocality — the system or fact of being patrifocal
  • physical file — (file system)   A low-level view of the physical characteristics of a file, such as its location on a disk or its physical structure, for example, whether indexed or sequential.
  • place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
  • plebification — the act of making popular or vulgar
  • pontificality — a priestly role or office
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • prolification — the production of offspring
  • qualification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
  • qualificative — That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts; a qualifying term or statement.
  • qualificatory — That serves as qualification.
  • raffle ticket — a ticket sold in a raffle, representing a chance to win a prize
  • rat claw foot — an elongated foot having the form of a thin claw grasping a ball.
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • reflex camera — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
  • reflex-action — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
  • refocillation — the restoring of strength by refreshment or revivement
  • reinforceable — capable of being reinforced
  • relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • rock-fill dam — a dam built mainly of rocks of various sizes fitted compactly together.
  • ruled surface — a surface that can be generated by a straight line, as a cylinder or cone.
  • sacrifice fly — a fly ball when there are fewer than two players out that enables a base runner, usually at third base, to score after the ball is caught.
  • sacrificially — pertaining to or concerned with sacrifice.
  • sanctifyingly — in a sanctifying manner
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