13-letter words containing f, e, m, c, o
- ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- imperfections — A fault, blemish, or undesirable feature.
- inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
- informercials — Plural form of informercial.
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- market forces — factors driving the economy
- meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
- mellification — the production of honey from nectar
- memo function — (programming) (Or "memoised function") A function that remembers which arguments it has been called with and the result returned and, if called with the same arguments again, returns the result from its memory rather than recalculating it. Memo functions were invented by Professor Donald Michie of Edinburgh University. The idea was further developed by Robin Popplestone in his Pop2 language long before it was ever worked into LISP. This same principle is found at the hardware level in computer architectures which use a cache to store recently accessed memory locations. A Common Lisp package by Marty Hall <[email protected]> ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/Memoization.
- metafictional — Of, relating to, or being metafiction.
- metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
- metrification — metrication.
- microfelsitic — (of a rock) showing evidence of crystallization having begun, but not yet having formed any crystals
- microfilament — a minute, narrow tubelike cell structure composed of a protein similar to actin, occurring singly and in bundles, involved in cytoplasmic movement and changes in cell shape.
- microfilariae — the embryonic larva of the nematode parasite Filaria or of related genera, especially of those species that cause heartworm in dogs and elephantiasis in humans.
- microfilmable — Suitable for storage on microfilm.
- microfloppies — 3.5-inch floppies, as opposed to 5.25-inch vanilla or mini-floppies and the now-obsolete 8-inch variety. This term may be headed for obsolescence as 5.25-inchers pass out of use, only to be revived if anybody floats a sub-3-inch floppy standard. See stiffy, minifloppies.
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- modern french — the French language since c1600.
- mole fraction — the ratio of the number of moles of a given component of a mixture to the total number of moles of all the components.
- montefiascone — a town in central Italy: wine-growing area.
- motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- munroe effect — the reinforcement of shock waves in the concave, hollow end of a shaped charge, producing a greater resultant wave and concentrating the explosion along the axis of the charge.
- myelofibrotic — of, relating to or affected by myelofibrosis
- norman french — Also called Norman. the French dialect of the Normans or of Normandy.
- olfactometers — Plural form of olfactometer.
- olfactometric — Of or pertaining to olfactometry.
- orifice meter — a plate having a central hole that is placed across the flow of a liquid, usually between flanges in a pipeline. The pressure difference generated by the flow velocity through the hole enables the flow quantity to be measured
- osmoconformer — Any marine invertebrate that maintains its internal salinity such that it is always equal to the surrounding seawater.
- peace of mind — reassurance
- penicilliform — in the shape of a pencil or paintbrush
- perfect storm — a detrimental or calamitous situation or event arising from the powerful combined effect of a unique set of circumstances: a perfect storm battering corporate pension plans.
- perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
- piece of meat — the flesh of animals as used for food.
- place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
- potomac fever — the determination or fervor to share in the power and prestige of the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., especially by being appointed or elected to a government position.
- recomfortless — having no comfort; comfortless
- reflectometer — a device for measuring reflectance.
- reflectometry — the study or science of reflectometer usage and design
- reform school — reformatory (def 2).
- refractometer — an instrument for determining the refractive index of a substance.
- refractometry — an instrument for determining the refractive index of a substance.
- reinforcement — the act of reinforcing.
- reperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
- screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
- self-composed — being or appearing to be composed; calm.
- self-contempt — the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.