11-letter words containing f, a, n, c, o, i
- infracostal — (anatomy) Below the ribs.
- infractions — Plural form of infraction.
- infrasonics — the branch of science that deals with infrasonic phenomena.
- kaffir corn — a Southern African variety of sorghum, cultivated in dry regions for its grain and as fodder
- labefaction — Deterioration or downfall.
- lactoferrin — a glycoprotein present in milk, especially human milk, and supplying iron to suckling infants.
- lactoflavin — riboflavin.
- land office — a government office for the transaction of business relating to public lands.
- loan office — an office for making loans or receiving payments on loans.
- loriciferan — (zoology) Any of several marine animals of the phylum Loricifera.
- madefaction — the process of making wet
- magnificoes — Plural form of magnifico.
- main office — headquarters
- malefaction — an evil deed; crime; wrongdoing.
- malfunction — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
- metafiction — fiction that discusses, describes, or analyzes a work of fiction or the conventions of fiction.
- microfaunal — Of, or relating to, a microfauna.
- neo-fascism — a modern right-wing political movement that includes significant elements of fascism, esp inspired by fascist Italy
- neo-fascist — any of various political movements or beliefs inspired by or reminiscent of fascism or Nazism.
- neofascists — Plural form of neofascist.
- nonofficial — a person appointed or elected to an office or charged with certain duties.
- obfuscating — Present participle of obfuscate.
- obfuscation — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- officiating — Present participle of officiate Serving in an official capacity or serving as an official at a contest.
- officiation — to perform the office of a member of the clergy, as at a divine service.
- pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- pontificate — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- pro-african — Also, Africa. of or from Africa; belonging to the black peoples of Africa.
- racing form — a sheet that provides detailed information about horse races, including background data on the horses, jockeys, etc.
- rarefaction — the act or process of rarefying.
- refactoring — (object-oriented, programming) Improving a computer program by reorganising its internal structure without altering its external behaviour. When software developers add new features to a program, the code degrades because the original program was not designed with the extra features in mind. This problem could be solved by either rewriting the existing code or working around the problems which arise when adding the new features. Redesigning a program is extra work, but not doing so would create a program which is more complicated than it needs to be. Refactoring is a collection of techniques which have been designed to provide an alternative to the two situations mentioned above. The techniques enable programmers to restructure code so that the design of a program is clearer. It also allows programmers to extract reusable components, streamline a program, and make additions to the program easier to implement. Refactoring is usually done by renaming methods, moving fields from one class to another, and moving code into a separate method. Although it is done using small and simple steps, refactoring a program will vastly improve its design and structure, making it easier to maintain and leading to more robust code.
- reification — to convert into or regard as a concrete thing: to reify a concept.
- rifacimento — a recast or adaptation, as of a literary or musical work.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
- scarf joint — a joint in which two timbers or other structural members are fitted together with long end laps of various forms and held in place with bolts, straps, keys, fishplates, etc., to resist tension or compression.
- social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- suffocation — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- tabefaction — the process of tabefying
- tumefaction — an act of making or becoming swollen or tumid.
- unification — the process of unifying or uniting; union: the unification of the 13 original colonies.
- unit factor — a gene; a sequence of nucleotides that functions as the hereditary unit for a single character.
- vinificator — a condenser for alcohol vapors escaping from fermenting wine.
- vociferance — vociferant utterance; vociferation.