13-letter words containing f, e, r, i, c
- school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
- school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
- security firm — a firm which provides guards for buildings, and other security services and personnel
- self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
- self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- self-critical — capable of criticizing oneself objectively.
- self-directed — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
- self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
- self-reliance — reliance on oneself or one's own powers, resources, etc.
- self-ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
- self-security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
- service rifle — a rifle that is issued as standard to soldiers of an army or armed force
- sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
- slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
- special offer — bargain
- staff officer — a commissioned officer who is a member of a staff.
- straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- strategic fit — (in business) the degree to which the activities of different sections of a business or businesses working together complement one another to achieve competitive advantage and business success
- sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- superterrific — more than terrific
- surface noise — extraneous noise caused by physical wear or a physical flaw on a phonograph record or in a pickup system, rather than by a flaw in the equipment.
- swift current — a city in SW Saskatchewan, in S Canada.
- tariff office — a company whose premiums are based on a tariff agreed with other insurance companies
- telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
- testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
- the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
- the franchise — the right to vote, esp for representatives in a legislative body; suffrage
- thermic fever — sunstroke.
- to catch fire — If an object or substance catches fire, it starts burning.
- to perfection — impeccably, perfectly
- trade deficit — A trade deficit is a situation in which a country imports goods worth more than the value of the goods that it exports.
- unciform bone — a small bone of the wrist
- underfinanced — Underfinanced means the same as underfunded.
- undifferenced — (of a coat of arms) having no marks indicating family position and to be used by only one person at a time
- unelectrified — not powered by electricity
- unrectifiable — able to be rectified.
- unsuperficial — external or outward: a superficial resemblance.
- vacuum filter — A vacuum filter is a filter in which the liquid passes through more easily because of a vacuum on the liquid output side.
- vcc filtering — (electronics) A technique for reducing the amount of Radio Frequency Interference spread via power supply connections. VCC is a common name for the non-ground power supply line in circuits based on bipolar transistors. When part of a circuit generates lots of radio-frequency noise, that portion of the power plane can be isolated from the rest of the circuit and power delivered to it via a low pass filter, usually a PI filter, as shown in the diagram below.
- venire facias — a writ directing the appropriate official to summon a jury.
- versification — the act of versifying.
- vertical file — a collection of pamphlets, pictures, clippings, or other materials stored upright, as in a filing cabinet or cabinets.
- x-certificate — a film classification indicating a film that may not be publicly shown to anyone under 18. Since 1982 replaced by symbol 18