13-letter words containing f, i, c, o
- informatician — a person who works or studies in the field of informatics
- informercials — Plural form of informercial.
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
- infructuously — in an infructuous or unfruitful manner; fruitlessly
- inns of court — (in England) the four private unincorporated societies in London that function as a law school and have the exclusive privilege of calling candidates to the English bar
- interfunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- islamofascism — an ideology promoted by some Islamists, the aims of which are to establish Islamic orthodoxy and to resist western secularism
- isle of capri — Capri.
- jellification — The process or result of jellifying.
- john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
- jollification — jolly merrymaking; jolly festivity.
- justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- kiss of peace — (in certain Christian churches) a ceremonial greeting or embrace given as a token of Christian love and unity.
- korf, richard — Richard Korf
- landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
- legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
- lignification — Turning to wood; the process of becoming ligneous.
- line of force — an imaginary line representing a field of force, such as an electric or magnetic field, such that the tangent at any point is the direction of the field vector at that point
- lines of code — (programming, unit) (LOC) A common measure of the size or progress of a programming project. For example, one can describe a completed project as consisting of 100,000 LOC; or one can characterise a week's progress as 5000 LOC. Using LOC as a metric of progress encourages programmers to reinvent the wheel or split their code into lots of short lines.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- liquification — Alternative form of liquefaction.
- lithification — the process or processes by which unconsolidated materials are converted into coherent solid rock, as by compaction or cementation.
- little office — (sometimes initial capital letters) Roman Catholic Church. an office similar to but shorter than the divine office, in honor of a saint, a mystery, or, especially, the Virgin Mary.
- logical shift — (programming) (Either shift left logical or shift right logical) Machine-level operations available on nearly all processors which move each bit in a word one or more bit positions in the given direction. A left shift moves the bits to more significant positions (like multiplying by two), a right shift moves them to less significant positions (like dividing by two). The comparison with multiplication and division breaks down in certain circumstances - a logical shift may discard bits that are shifted off either end of the word and does not preserve the sign of the word (positive or negative). Logical shift is approriate when treating the word as a bit string or a sequence of bit fields, whereas arithmetic shift is appropriate when treating it as a binary number. The word to be shifted is usually stored in a register, or possibly in memory.
- loss function — (in decision theory) a function that expresses the loss incurred when a decision is made in terms of various factors.
- magnification — the act of magnifying or the state of being magnified.
- malfunctional — Not functioning as intended.
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- massification — the practice of making luxury products available to the mass market
- matrifocality — The state or condition of being matrifocal; matriarchy.
- maxillofacial — of, relating to, or affecting the jaws and the face: maxillofacial surgery.
- mellification — the production of honey from nectar
- memo function — (programming) (Or "memoised function") A function that remembers which arguments it has been called with and the result returned and, if called with the same arguments again, returns the result from its memory rather than recalculating it. Memo functions were invented by Professor Donald Michie of Edinburgh University. The idea was further developed by Robin Popplestone in his Pop2 language long before it was ever worked into LISP. This same principle is found at the hardware level in computer architectures which use a cache to store recently accessed memory locations. A Common Lisp package by Marty Hall <[email protected]> ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/Memoization.
- metafictional — Of, relating to, or being metafiction.
- metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
- metrification — metrication.
- microfelsitic — (of a rock) showing evidence of crystallization having begun, but not yet having formed any crystals
- microfilament — a minute, narrow tubelike cell structure composed of a protein similar to actin, occurring singly and in bundles, involved in cytoplasmic movement and changes in cell shape.
- microfilariae — the embryonic larva of the nematode parasite Filaria or of related genera, especially of those species that cause heartworm in dogs and elephantiasis in humans.
- microfilarial — relating to, or emanating from, microfilariae
- microfilmable — Suitable for storage on microfilm.
- microfloppies — 3.5-inch floppies, as opposed to 5.25-inch vanilla or mini-floppies and the now-obsolete 8-inch variety. This term may be headed for obsolescence as 5.25-inchers pass out of use, only to be revived if anybody floats a sub-3-inch floppy standard. See stiffy, minifloppies.
- microsoft dos — Microsoft Disk Operating System
- microsoft iis — Internet Information Server
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- modifications — Plural form of modification.
- mole fraction — the ratio of the number of moles of a given component of a mixture to the total number of moles of all the components.
- mollification — to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease.