12-letter words containing f, i, c, o
- nonfluencies — spoken or written with ease: fluent French.
- noninfluence — a lack of influence, failure to influence
- north africa — the northern part of Africa, especially the region north of the tropical rain forest and comprised of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and that part of Egypt west of the Gulf of Suez.
- north-facing — facing towards the north
- notification — a formal notifying or informing.
- oasification — The process of restoring water, soil, and plant life to an environment that has been degraded by soil erosion.
- obfuscations — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- objectifying — Present participle of objectify.
- of necessity — something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
- office block — a large office building.
- office hours — hours when a business is open
- office party — a party or informal social gathering for all the employees in a particular organization or department
- office space — part of a building for business use
- officeholder — a person filling a governmental position; public official.
- officialized — Simple past tense and past participle of officialize.
- offscourings — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
- olfactronics — the measurement and analysis of smells through instruments
- optical diff — vdiff
- organic farm — a farm where organic methods are used for agriculture and animal husbandry
- ossification — the act or process of ossifying.
- ostrich fern — a tall North American fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, with large mature leaves that resemble ostrich plumes, a popular landscaping plant whose curled new leaves, called fiddleheads, are eaten as a vegetable.
- out of voice — with the voice temporarily in a poor condition, esp for singing
- outer office — the reception area of an office, outside of the main working area
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- pacific rose — a large variety of eating apple from New Zealand, with sweet flesh
- pacification — to pacify.
- pack of lies — false account
- palification — the act of fortifying something with stakes
- panification — the making of bread
- 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.
- pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
- pelvic floor — muscles beneath the pelvis
- perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
- petrifaction — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
- phi-function — Euler's phi-function.
- piece of ass — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
- plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
- plastic foam — expanded plastic.
- pocket knife — A pocket knife is a small knife with several blades which fold into the handle so that you can carry it around with you safely.
- point defect — an imperfection in a crystal's lattice structure, either a missing atom or ion creating a vacancy in the lattice or an extra atom or ion between two normal lattice points creating an interstitial.
- police chief — chief of police: head of a US police force
- police force — police (def 1).
- pontificates — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- pontificator — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- post-fascist — of or relating to various right-wing political parties in Europe which espouse a modified form of fascism and which take part in constitutional politics
- prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
- press office — a section of a government department or other organization responsible for dealing with the press
- prime factor — any number in the set of prime numbers that is also a factor of a given integer