13-letter words containing f, e, r, o, c
- french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
- french window — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
- friction feed — (printer) A method some printers and plotters use to move paper by rotating one or both of a pair of spring-loaded rubber-coated rollers with the paper sandwiched between them. Friction feed printers are notorious for slipping when the rollers wear out, but can take standard typing paper. For printers with a sheet feeder, friction feed is more appropriate than sprocket feed which requires the holes in the paper to engage with the sprockets of the feed mechanism.
- friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
- friction pile — a pile depending on the friction of surrounding earth for support.
- friction tape — a cloth or plastic adhesive tape, containing a moisture-resistant substance, used especially to insulate and protect electrical wires and conductors.
- frontispieces — Plural form of frontispiece.
- frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
- fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- furaciousness — the quality of being furacious or thievish
- glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
- ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
- gyrofrequency — the frequency of rotation of an electron or other charged particle in a magnetic field, directly proportional to the charge of the particle and to the field strength and inversely proportional to the mass of the particle.
- hair follicle — a small cavity in the epidermis and corium of the skin, from which a hair develops.
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- herb of grace — rue2 .
- herb-of-grace — rue2 .
- home comforts — things in a house that make it comfortable
- house officer — a doctor who is the most junior member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually resident in the hospital
- hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
- hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- imperfections — A fault, blemish, or undesirable feature.
- in receipt of — If you are in receipt of something, you have received it or you receive it regularly.
- in respect of — with regard, with reference
- inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
- inertia force — an imaginary force supposed to act upon an accelerated body, equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the resultant of the real forces
- inflorescence — a flowering or blossoming.
- informercials — Plural form of informercial.
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
- interfunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- isle of capri — Capri.
- john fletcher — John, 1579–1625, English dramatist: collaborated with Francis Beaumont 1606?–16; with Philip Massinger 1613–25.
- keep track of — monitor, maintain record of
- kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
- landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
- lethal factor — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
- line of force — an imaginary line representing a field of force, such as an electric or magnetic field, such that the tangent at any point is the direction of the field vector at that point
- lorentz force — the force on a charged particle moving through a region containing both electric and magnetic fields.
- lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
- low frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 kilohertz. Abbreviation: LF.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- market forces — factors driving the economy
- 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.