13-letter words containing f, c, i
- crock of shit — a quantity or source of lies or nonsense
- cross-fertile — capable of cross-fertilization or of being cross-fertilized
- cross-footing — Accounting. to total figures horizontally across columns instead of vertically.
- crosscut file — a file having two intersecting rows of teeth
- crowd surfing — the practice of being passed over the top of a crowd of people such as an audience at a pop concert
- culture fluid — the fluid used as a medium for growing microorganisms
- cup of elijah — Elijah's cup.
- curve fitting — the determination of a curve that fits a specified set of points: The method of least squares is commonly used for curve fitting.
- cut-off point — the limit at which something is no longer applicable
- cutting fluid — a liquid or gas for cooling or lubricating a cutting tool and a piece of work at their point of contact.
- cyberfeminism — A community, philosophy and set of practices concerned with feminist acts in cyberspace.
- cycloolefinic — of or like a cycloolefin
- cycloparaffin — any of a series of saturated alicyclic hydrocarbons of the general formula CnH2n, having a closed chain of three or more carbon atoms, as cyclohexane
- dairy factory — a factory making butter, cheese, lactose, etc from milk collected from surrounding farming areas
- damnification — That which causes damage or loss.
- dandification — The condition or state of a man who is overly concerned about his clothes and appearance.
- decaffeinated — Decaffeinated coffee has had most of the caffeine removed from it.
- deceitfulness — given to deceiving: A deceitful person cannot keep friends for long.
- declassifying — Present participle of declassify.
- deconflicting — Present participle of deconflict.
- deconfliction — The act or process of deconflicting.
- defectibility — the ability to become defectible
- defectiveness — having a defect or flaw; faulty; imperfect: a defective machine.
- deficientness — the state or quality of being deficient
- delirifacient — anything that causes or induces delirium
- densification — the act of becoming or making more dense
- dieffenbachia — any of various plants belonging to the genus Dieffenbachia, of the arum family, native to tropical America, often cultivated as houseplants for their decorative foliage.
- diffeomorphic — (mathematics) Having a diffeomorphism.
- difficultness — The state or quality of being difficult.
- diffractogram — An image produced by a diffractometer.
- dignification — The act of dignifying; exaltation.
- disaffirmance — to deny; contradict.
- discomforting — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconfirming — Not confirming.
- disconformity — Geology. the surface of a division between parallel rock strata, indicating interruption of sedimentation: a type of unconformity.
- discontentful — exhibiting a lack of contentment
- disfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of disfranchise.
- disfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfranchise.
- disfunctional — dysfunction.
- disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
- disinfectants — Plural form of disinfectant.
- disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- divine office — office (def 12c).
- domestic fowl — a chicken.
- domino effect — the cumulative effect that results when one event precipitates a series of like events.
- driving force — impetus
- duff's device — The most dramatic use yet seen of fall through in C, invented by Tom Duff when he was at Lucasfilm. Trying to bum all the instructions he could out of an inner loop that copied data serially onto an output port, he decided to unroll it. He then realised that the unrolled version could be implemented by *interlacing* the structures of a switch and a loop: register n = (count + 7) / 8; /* count > 0 assumed */ switch (count % 8) { case 0: do { *to = *from++; case 7: *to = *from++; case 6: *to = *from++; case 5: *to = *from++; case 4: *to = *from++; case 3: *to = *from++; case 2: *to = *from++; case 1: *to = *from++; } while (--n > 0); } Shocking though it appears to all who encounter it for the first time, the device is actually perfectly valid, legal C. C's default fall through in case statements has long been its most controversial single feature; Duff observed that "This code forms some sort of argument in that debate, but I'm not sure whether it's for or against."
- dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- ear infection — an infection that affects the ear
- edison effect — the phenomenon of the flow of electric current when an electrode sealed inside the bulb of an incandescent lamp is connected to the positive terminal of the lamp.