13-letter words containing f, e, r, i, c
- cyberfeminism — A community, philosophy and set of practices concerned with feminist acts in cyberspace.
- delirifacient — anything that causes or induces delirium
- diffeomorphic — (mathematics) Having a diffeomorphism.
- disaffirmance — to deny; contradict.
- disfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of disfranchise.
- disfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfranchise.
- disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
- disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- driving force — impetus
- ear infection — an infection that affects the ear
- electric fire — a device that provides heat for a room from an incandescent electric element
- electric flux — the product of the electric displacement and the area across which it is displaced in an electric field
- enfranchising — Present participle of enfranchise.
- enteric fever — typhoid
- fabric filter — A fabric filter is a type of filter in which solids are removed from a gas by passing it though a fabric.
- factory price — the price quoted for manufactured goods for pickup at the gate of a factory, before certain handling, shipping, and similar costs.
- family circle — the closely related members of a family as a group.
- family credit — (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
- fault breccia — angular rock fragments produced by fracture and grinding during faulting and distributed within or adjacent to the fault plane.
- featherstitch — an embroidery stitch producing work in which a succession of branches extend alternately on each side of a central stem.
- febrifacients — Plural form of febrifacient.
- feinschmecker — gourmet.
- ferociousness — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- ferricyanogen — (chemistry) A hexavalent radical, Fe2(CN)12, a compound of cyanogen and iron in the ferric state.
- ferrimagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as a ferrite, in which the magnetic moments of some neighboring atoms point in opposite directions, with a net magnetization still resulting because of differences in magnitudes of the opposite moments.
- ferrochromium — a ferroalloy containing up to 70 percent chromium.
- ferroelectric — pertaining to a substance that possesses spontaneous electric polarization such that the polarization can be reversed by an electric field.
- ferromagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
- ferrosoferric — containing both a ferrous compound and a ferric compound
- festschriften — Plural form of festschrift.
- fibre channel — (storage, networking, communications) An ANSI standard originally intended for high-speed SANs connecting servers, disc arrays, and backup devices, also later adapted to form the physical layer of Gigabit Ethernet. Development work on Fibre channel started in 1988 and it was approved by the ANSI standards committee in 1994, running at 100Mb/s. More recent innovations have seen the speed of Fibre Channel SANs increase to 10Gb/s. Several topologies are possible with Fibre Channel, the most popular being a number of devices attached to one (or two, for redundancy) central Fibre Channel switches, creating a reliable infrastructure that allows servers to share storage arrays or tape libraries. One common use of Fibre Channel SANs is for high availability databaseq clusters where two servers are connected to one highly reliable RAID array. Should one server fail, the other server can mount the array itself and continue operations with minimal downtime and loss of data. Other advanced features include the ability to have servers and hard drives seperated by hundreds of miles or to rapidly mirror data between servers and hard drives, perhaps in seperate geographic locations.
- field cricket — any of several jumping, orthopterous insects of the family Gryllidae, characterized by long antennae and stridulating organs on the forewings of the male, as one of the species commonly found in pastures and meadows (field cricket) or on trees and shrubs (tree cricket)
- field officer — an officer holding a field grade.
- field service — military service performed in the field
- film recorder — a photographic device for producing a sound strip on a motion-picture film.
- filter coffee — coffee made by filtering hot water through ground coffee
- filter factor — a number indicating the increased exposure that a particular film should receive when a photograph is taken using a particular filter.
- fingerpicking — Present participle of fingerpick.
- finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
- fire watching — the job of watching for fires, especially those caused by aerial bombardment
- fireside chat — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
- firmer chisel — a narrow-bladed chisel for paring and mortising, driven by hand pressure or with a mallet.
- first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- first officer — first mate.
- fish hatchery — a facility where fish eggs are hatched and the fry raised, especially to stock lakes, streams, and ponds.
- fitted carpet — wall-to-wall carpeting
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- floorcovering — A covering for a floor.
- fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.