13-letter words containing f, a, t, c, h
- in the act of — while committing: crime, transgression
- infant school — In Britain, an infant school is a school for children between the ages of five and seven.
- kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
- lethal factor — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
- lithification — the process or processes by which unconsolidated materials are converted into coherent solid rock, as by compaction or cementation.
- 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.
- lucifer match — friction match.
- match fitness — the condition of being match-fit
- match-funding — the stipulation set by a grant-providing body that the recipients of a grant raise a certain percentage of the money they require, generally a sum more or less equal to that of the sum of money being granted
- merchant fees — Merchant fees are money charged by a merchant service to a vendor for processing credit card transactions.
- merchant flag — the ensign used by all ships engaged in commerce, fishing, etc.
- mythification — to create a myth about (a person, place, tradition, etc.); cause to become a myth.
- north african — the northern part of Africa, especially the region north of the tropical rain forest and comprised of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and that part of Egypt west of the Gulf of Suez.
- not much of a — If you describe something as not much of a particular type of thing, you mean that it is small or of poor quality.
- off the chain — wildly entertaining
- off the track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- oprahfication — the perceived increase in people’s desire to discuss their emotions or personal problems, attributed to the influence of confessional television programmes
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
- reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
- rhesus factor — Rh factor.
- scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
- schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
- self-chastise — to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
- shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
- shelf-stacker — a person whose job is to fill the shelves and displays in a supermarket or other shop with goods for sale
- slash fiction — a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist: Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction. Also called slash.
- south african — of southern Africa.
- specific heat — the number of calories required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance 1°C, or the number of BTU's per pound per degree F.
- straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
- the afflicted — afflicted people considered collectively
- the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
- the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
- the cup final — the annual final of the FA Cup soccer competition, played at Wembley, or the Scottish Cup, played at Hampden Park
- the fact that — You use the fact that after some verbs or prepositions, especially in expressions such as in view of the fact that, apart from the fact that, and despite the fact that, to link the verb or preposition with a clause.
- the franchise — the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
- thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
- thurification — the act of incense-burning
- to catch fire — If an object or substance catches fire, it starts burning.
- traffic light — a set of electrically operated signal lights used to direct or control traffic at intersections.
- tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
- twin camshaft — A twin camshaft is an arrangement of two parallel camshafts for each set of cylinders in an engine. Usually one operates the intake valve and the other the exhaust valve.
- watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
- watch out for — remain vigilant for, beware of
- wichita falls — a city in N Texas.