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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
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