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13-letter words containing f, i, c, o

  • profit center — a segment of a business organization that has a profitable base independent of the business as a whole.
  • profit centre — a unit or department of a company that is responsible for its costs and its profits
  • prolification — the production of offspring
  • public office — position in government
  • qualification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
  • qualificatory — That serves as qualification.
  • ramifications — the act or process of ramifying.
  • reconfiguring — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • rectification — the act of rectifying, or the fact of being rectified.
  • reflex-action — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
  • refocillation — the restoring of strength by refreshment or revivement
  • reinforceable — capable of being reinforced
  • reinforcement — the act of reinforcing.
  • retroflection — a bending backward.
  • reunification — the process of unifying or uniting; union: the unification of the 13 original colonies.
  • rock-fill dam — a dam built mainly of rocks of various sizes fitted compactly together.
  • role conflict — emotional conflict arising when competing demands are made on an individual in the fulfillment of his or her multiple social roles.
  • rose of china — China rose (def 2).
  • russification — Russianize (defs 1, 2).
  • san francisco — a seaport in W California, on San Francisco Bay: earthquake and fire 1906; United Nations Conference 1945.
  • sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
  • sao francisco — a river flowing NE and E through E Brazil into the Atlantic. 1800 miles (2900 km) long.
  • scalariformly — in a scalariform or ladder-like manner
  • scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
  • scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
  • scarification — an act or instance of scarifying.
  • 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.
  • scimitar foot — any short leg or foot, as to a pedestal table, having the form of an arc tangent to the floor plane.
  • scorification — an assaying process whereby gold or silver is separated from ore by fusion with lead.
  • scorpion fish — any of several tropical and temperate marine scorpaenid fishes, especially members of the genus Scorpaena, many having venomous dorsal spines.
  • scottish fold — a breed of medium-sized short-haired cat with folded ears
  • scout uniform — the uniform worn by the Scouts
  • second fiddle — a secondary role: to play second fiddle to another person.
  • self-conflict — to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
  • self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
  • self-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
  • semi-official — having some degree of official authority.
  • 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
  • sign of peace — the liturgical practice of giving a sign of peace, union, or friendship, as a handshake or embrace, at some point in a Christian service, esp. in a Mass or Communion service
  • signification — meaning; import; sense.
  • significatory — serving to signify
  • simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
  • skin friction — the friction acting on a solid body when it is moving through a fluid
  • slash fiction — a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist: Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction. Also called slash.
  • slice of life — accurate depiction of reality
  • slice-of-life — of, relating to, or being a naturalistic, unembellished representation of real life: a play with slice-of-life dialogue.
  • social misfit — a person who does not conform to others' views of what is normal or acceptable in society
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