13-letter words containing f, a, s, c
- hash function — (programming) A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
- in one's face — directly opposite or against one
- inefficacious — not able to produce the desired effect; ineffective.
- infant school — In Britain, an infant school is a school for children between the ages of five and seven.
- informercials — Plural form of informercial.
- infrascapular — (anatomy) Beneath the scapula.
- infraspecific — of or relating to a subdivision of a species, as a subspecies, variety, or cultivar.
- insignificant — unimportant, trifling, or petty: Omit the insignificant details.
- intraspecific — existing or occurring within a species.
- islamofascism — an ideology promoted by some Islamists, the aims of which are to establish Islamic orthodoxy and to resist western secularism
- isle of capri — Capri.
- jacob's staff — Astronomy. cross-staff.
- justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
- justificative — Justificatory.
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
- kiss of peace — (in certain Christian churches) a ceremonial greeting or embrace given as a token of Christian love and unity.
- kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
- 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.
- 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.
- liquefacients — Plural form of liquefacient.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- logical shift — (programming) (Either shift left logical or shift right logical) Machine-level operations available on nearly all processors which move each bit in a word one or more bit positions in the given direction. A left shift moves the bits to more significant positions (like multiplying by two), a right shift moves them to less significant positions (like dividing by two). The comparison with multiplication and division breaks down in certain circumstances - a logical shift may discard bits that are shifted off either end of the word and does not preserve the sign of the word (positive or negative). Logical shift is approriate when treating the word as a bit string or a sequence of bit fields, whereas arithmetic shift is appropriate when treating it as a binary number. The word to be shifted is usually stored in a register, or possibly in memory.
- lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
- magnus effect — the thrust on a cylinder rotating about its axis while in motion in a fluid, the thrust being perpendicular to the relative motion of the cylinder in the fluid.
- make mischief — cause trouble
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- manufacturers — Plural form of manufacturer.
- market forces — factors driving the economy
- massification — the practice of making luxury products available to the mass market
- match fitness — the condition of being match-fit
- meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
- mendes-france — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1907–1982, French statesman and economist: premier 1954–55.
- merchant fees — Merchant fees are money charged by a merchant service to a vendor for processing credit card transactions.
- metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
- mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.
- misclassified — to arrange or organize by classes; order according to class.
- modifications — Plural form of modification.
- montefiascone — a town in central Italy: wine-growing area.
- mystification — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- nectariferous — producing nectar.
- 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
- notifications — Plural form of notification.
- ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
- olfactologist — a medical specialist in the sense of smell