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

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.
fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
fugaciousness — (obsolete) fugacity.
function room — a room designated for official or formal social gatherings or ceremonies
function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
functionalise — to make functional.
functionalism — (usually initial capital letter) Chiefly Architecture, Furniture. a design movement evolved from several previous movements or schools in Europe in the early 20th century, advocating the design of buildings, furnishings, etc., as direct fulfillments of material requirements, as for shelter, repose, or the serving of food, with the construction, materials, and purpose clearly expressed or at least not denied, and with aesthetic effect derived chiefly from proportions and finish, purely decorative effects being excluded or greatly subordinated. the doctrines and practices associated with this movement. Compare rationalism (def 4).
functionalist — a person who advocates, or works according to, the principles of functionalism.
functionality — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
functionalize — to make functional.
functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
furaciousness — the quality of being furacious or thievish
futurological — Pertaining to futurology.
genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
geoscientific — relating to geoscience
glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
gratification — the state of being gratified; great satisfaction.
hair follicle — a small cavity in the epidermis and corium of the skin, from which a hair develops.
half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
half-scottish — Also, Scots. of or relating to Scotland, its people, or their language.
hash function — (programming) A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
honorifically — In a honorific manner.
horrification — That which causes horror.
host-specific — capable of living solely on or in one species of host, as a parasite that infests only chickens.
house officer — a doctor who is the most junior member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually resident in the hospital
hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
ichthyofaunal — relating to ichthyofauna
ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
imperfections — A fault, blemish, or undesirable feature.
in advance of — prior to
in confidence — full trust; belief in the powers, trustworthiness, or reliability of a person or thing: We have every confidence in their ability to succeed.
in one's face — directly opposite or against one
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
in the act of — while committing: crime, transgression
in-capable of — not capable.
inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
inefficacious — not able to produce the desired effect; ineffective.
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
infant school — In Britain, an infant school is a school for children between the ages of five and seven.
inflorescence — a flowering or blossoming.

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