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12-letter words containing f, e, t, l, o, c

  • fluorometric — Of, pertaining to, or measured using fluorometry.
  • fluosilicate — a salt of fluosilicic acid.
  • fly the coop — an enclosure, cage, or pen, usually with bars or wires, in which fowls or other small animals are confined for fattening, transportation, etc.
  • focal length — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
  • folk society — an often small, homogeneous, and isolated community or society functioning chiefly through primary contacts and strongly attached to its traditional ways of living.
  • forecastable — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
  • fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
  • frictionless — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
  • functionable — functional (def 3).
  • functionless — Lacking a function.
  • genuflection — an act of bending the knee or touching it to the ground in reverence or worship.
  • half section — a part that is cut off or separated.
  • half-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
  • inconfutable — (obsolete) Not confutable.
  • infectiously — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
  • infelicitous — inapt, inappropriate, or awkward; malapropos: an infelicitous remark.
  • inflectional — of, relating to, or used in inflection: an inflectional ending.
  • inflorescent — Of, pertaining to or causing inflorescence.
  • irreflection — lack of careful or long consideration
  • joule effect — the generation of heat by the passage of electricity through a resistance.
  • kitchen foil — aluminium foil used in cooking or storing food
  • laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
  • leaf tobacco — tobacco in leaf form
  • liquefaction — the act or process of liquefying or making liquid.
  • lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
  • malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
  • olfactometer — a device for estimating the keenness of the sense of smell.
  • olfactometry — The study and measurement of smells.
  • out of place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
  • out of scale — If something is out of scale with the things near it, it is too big or too small in relation to them.
  • pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
  • proficiently — well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
  • reflectogram — an image of an under-drawing or image taken from beneath the surface of paint in a work of art
  • reflectorize — to treat something so that it reflects light: to reflectorize license plates.
  • self-conceit — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
  • self-concept — the idea or mental image one has of oneself and one's strengths, weaknesses, status, etc.; self-image.
  • self-content — satisfaction with oneself; self-complacency.
  • self-control — control or restraint of oneself or one's actions, feelings, etc.
  • tick trefoil — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Desmodium, of the legume family, having trifoliolate leaves and jointed pods with hooked hairs by which they adhere to objects.
  • to lose face — If you lose face, you do something which makes you appear weak and makes people respect or admire you less. If you do something in order to save face, you do it in order to avoid appearing weak and losing people's respect or admiration.
  • tobacco leaf — the leaves of the tobacco plant, used for the production of cigarettes and tobacco
  • touchy-feely — Informal. emphasizing or marked by emotional openness and enthusiastic physicality: a touchy-feely encounter group.
  • trace fossil — a fossilized track, trail, burrow, boring, or other structure in sedimentary rock that records the presence or behavior of the organism that made it.
  • trefoil arch — an arch with cusplike intrados.
  • unconfutable — to prove to be false, invalid, or defective; disprove: to confute an argument.
  • vector field — a region, domain, set, etc., with a vector assigned at each point; vector function.
  • volta effect — contact potential.
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