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13-letter words containing f, e, r, i, c

  • optical fiber — optical fibre
  • optical fibre — (communications)   (fibre optics, FO, US "fiber", light pipe) A plastic or glass (silicon dioxide) fibre no thicker than a human hair used to transmit information using infra-red or even visible light as the carrier (usually a laser). The light beam is an electromagnetic signal with a frequency in the range of 10^14 to 10^15 Hertz. Optical fibre is less susceptible to external noise than other transmission media, and is cheaper to make than copper wire, but it is much more difficult to connect. Optical fibres are difficult to tamper with (to monitor or inject data in the middle of a connection), making them appropriate for secure communications. The light beams do not escape from the medium because the material used provides total internal reflection. See also FDDI, Optical Carrier n, SONET.
  • 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
  • overconfident — too confident.
  • pacific grove — a city in W California, at S end of Monterey Bay.
  • peace officer — a civil officer appointed to preserve the public peace, as a sheriff or constable.
  • penicilliform — in the shape of a pencil or paintbrush
  • perfect pitch — absolute pitch (def 2).
  • perfectionate — to perfect; to make perfect
  • perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
  • perfectionist — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • petrification — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
  • petty officer — navy: non-commissioned officer
  • pickerel frog — a meadow frog, Rana palustris, common in eastern North America, similar to the leopard frog but with squarish dark spots on the back.
  • picture frame — mount for a picture
  • piece of work — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • pilot officer — A pilot officer is an officer of low rank in the British Royal Air Force.
  • 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.
  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
  • prefabricated — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • prefabricator — someone who or an organization that prefabricates
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
  • prescientific — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
  • press officer — A press officer is a person who is employed by an organization to give information about that organization to the press.
  • profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
  • profit center — a segment of a business organization that has a profitable base independent of the business as a whole.
  • profit centre — a unit or department of a company that is responsible for its costs and its profits
  • raffle ticket — a ticket sold in a raffle, representing a chance to win a prize
  • reconfiguring — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • rectification — the act of rectifying, or the fact of being rectified.
  • reflex-action — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
  • refocillation — the restoring of strength by refreshment or revivement
  • reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
  • reinforceable — capable of being reinforced
  • reinforcement — the act of reinforcing.
  • relief agency — an organization that provides aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • retroflection — a bending backward.
  • reunification — the process of unifying or uniting; union: the unification of the 13 original colonies.
  • ripple effect — a spreading effect or series of consequences caused by a single action or event.
  • river traffic — the boats that sail on a river
  • role conflict — emotional conflict arising when competing demands are made on an individual in the fulfillment of his or her multiple social roles.
  • rose of china — China rose (def 2).
  • sacrifice fly — a fly ball when there are fewer than two players out that enables a base runner, usually at third base, to score after the ball is caught.
  • safari jacket — bush jacket.
  • scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
  • scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
  • scene shifter — a person who changes scenes during a play
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