13-letter words containing f, i, c, o
- dignification — The act of dignifying; exaltation.
- discomforting — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconfirming — Not confirming.
- disconformity — Geology. the surface of a division between parallel rock strata, indicating interruption of sedimentation: a type of unconformity.
- discontentful — exhibiting a lack of contentment
- disfunctional — dysfunction.
- divine office — office (def 12c).
- domestic fowl — a chicken.
- domino effect — the cumulative effect that results when one event precipitates a series of like events.
- driving force — impetus
- dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- ear infection — an infection that affects the ear
- edison effect — the phenomenon of the flow of electric current when an electrode sealed inside the bulb of an incandescent lamp is connected to the positive terminal of the lamp.
- efficaciously — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
- eigenfunction — Each of a set of independent functions that are the solutions to a given differential equation.
- fabric ribbon — a typewriter ribbon made of inked material
- facetiousness — (uncountable) The state of being facetious.
- faction fight — a fight between rival Black groups, usually originating in tribal or clan feuds
- factionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of factionalize.
- factorisation — Alternative spelling of factorization.
- factorization — Mathematics. to resolve into factors.
- factory price — the price quoted for manufactured goods for pickup at the gate of a factory, before certain handling, shipping, and similar costs.
- facts of life — any aspect of human existence that must be acknowledged or regarded as unalterable: Old age is a fact of life.
- fait accompli — an accomplished fact; a thing already done: The enemy's defeat was a fait accompli long before the formal surrender.
- falsification — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- family doctor — a general practitioner.
- fantasmagoric — phantasmagoria.
- fasciculation — a fascicular condition.
- felicitations — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
- ferociousness — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- ferricyanogen — (chemistry) A hexavalent radical, Fe2(CN)12, a compound of cyanogen and iron in the ferric state.
- ferrochromium — a ferroalloy containing up to 70 percent chromium.
- ferroelectric — pertaining to a substance that possesses spontaneous electric polarization such that the polarization can be reversed by an electric field.
- ferromagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
- ferrosoferric — containing both a ferrous compound and a ferric compound
- fibromuscular — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to both fibrous and muscular tissue.
- fibrovascular — composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants: a fibrovascular bundle.
- fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
- fictionalized — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
- fictionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fictionalize.
- field officer — an officer holding a field grade.
- fighting cock — a gamecock.
- film recorder — a photographic device for producing a sound strip on a motion-picture film.
- filter coffee — coffee made by filtering hot water through ground coffee
- filter factor — a number indicating the increased exposure that a particular film should receive when a photograph is taken using a particular filter.
- firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
- firnification — the process by which snow changes into névé.
- first officer — first mate.
- flash fiction — very short works of fiction that are typically no longer than a couple of pages and may be as short as one paragraph.
- floatcut file — file with rows of parallel teeth