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14-letter words containing f, e, c

  • cotton flannel — a plain-weave or twill-weave fabric with nap on one side only
  • council of ten — the governing council of Venice from 1310 until its overthrow in 1797, composed originally of 10 and later 17 members.
  • counterfactual — expressing what has not happened but could, would, or might under differing conditions
  • counterfeiters — Plural form of counterfeiter.
  • counterfeiting — the making of fraudulent copies; forgery
  • coup de foudre — a sudden and amazing action or event
  • crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
  • crime fighting — the series of measures and actions taken by the forces of the law to combat crime
  • cross software — Software developed on one kind of computer for use on another (usually because the other computer does not have itself adequate facilities for software development).
  • crossreference — Alternative form of cross-reference.
  • cruft together — (jargon)   To hack together though with the suggestion that the result may be cruft.
  • crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
  • crystal defect — defect (def 3).
  • culture factor — culture as a causative agent, especially in contrast to biological factors.
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • cut sheet feed — the automatic movement of single sheets of paper through the platen of the printer
  • cut-off device — a device that terminates the flow or supply of something
  • cylinder front — a front cover for a desk or the like, consisting either of a solid piece or of a tambour sliding up and back in quadrantal grooves.
  • dance of death — a pictorial, literary, or musical representation, current esp in the Middle Ages, of a dance in which living people, in order of social precedence, are led off to their graves, by a personification of death
  • date of record — the final date a registered stockholder of a corporation has the right to receive a dividend or other benefit.
  • de-icing fluid — a liquid that removes or discourages the formation of ice
  • decaffeination — The removal of caffeine.
  • declassifiable — Suitable to be declassified.
  • defect density — (programming)   The ratio of the number of defects to program length.
  • defective year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
  • defence forces — the armed services of a country
  • defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
  • deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
  • delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
  • denazification — The process of bringing the leaders of the National Socialist regime in Germany to justice and of purging all elements of Nazism from public life, carried out especially between 1945 and 1948.
  • denitrificator — an apparatus which is used in denitrification, particularly in sulphuric acid works
  • depth of focus — the amount by which the distance between the camera lens and the film can be altered without the resulting image appearing blurred
  • detoxification — Detoxification is treatment given to people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol in order to stop them from being addicted.
  • diffractometer — an instrument that is used to study atomic crystal structure by measuring the angles at which x-rays, neutrons, or electrons are diffracted by matter.
  • diffractometry — The elucidation of the structures of crystalline materials by the use of X-ray diffraction.
  • discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
  • disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
  • disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
  • domestic staff — servants
  • doppler effect — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
  • drawing office — an office where drawings are made
  • drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
  • duckfoot quote — chevron-shaped quotation mark
  • dutch reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  • effective dose — the amount of a drug, or level of radiation exposure, that is sufficient to achieve the desired clinical improvement.
  • effervescently — effervescing; bubbling.
  • eigenfrequency — One of the natural resonant frequencies of a system.
  • electric fence — a fence with an electric current in it, typically used to keep cattle in a field
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