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

  • dehumidification — Dehumidification is the removal of vapor from a gas-vapor mixture.
  • dentist's office — A dentist's office is the room or house where a dentist works.
  • descent function — If a recursive function is of the form f x = ... f (d x) ... then d is known as the descent function.
  • dictionary flame — [Usenet] An attempt to sidetrack a debate away from issues by insisting on meanings for key terms that presuppose a desired conclusion or smuggle in an implicit premise. A common tactic of people who prefer argument over definitions to disputes about reality. Compare spelling flame.
  • direction finder — a receiver with a loop antenna rotating on a vertical axis, used to ascertain the direction of incoming radio waves.
  • disqualification — an act or instance of disqualifying.
  • dissatisfactions — Plural form of dissatisfaction.
  • diversifications — Plural form of diversification.
  • documentary film — factual, informative film
  • dolce far niente — pleasing inactivity.
  • dorothy canfield — Dorothy, Fisher, Dorothy Canfield.
  • drag coefficient — a measure of the drag of an object in a moving fluid, esp air
  • duchess of malfi — a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster.
  • dysfunctionality — (uncountable) The condition of being dysfunctional.
  • elected official — person voted into office
  • electronic flash — Photography
  • engineer officer — a ship's officer who is qualified to be in charge of the vessel's propulsion and other machinery
  • exemplifications — Plural form of exemplification.
  • extrinsic factor — vitamin B12
  • face recognition — the ability of a computer to scan, store, and recognize human faces for use in identifying people
  • faction fighting — dissension
  • falsificationism — (epistemology) A scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be falsifiable in order to be scientific; if a claim is not able to be refuted it is not a scientific claim.
  • family allowance — a regular government payment to the parents of children up to a certain age
  • family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
  • feel constrained — If you feel constrained to do something, you feel that you must do it, even though you would prefer not to.
  • ferdinand marcos — Ferdinand E(dralin) [ed-ruh-lin] /ˈɛd rə lɪn/ (Show IPA), 1917–1989, Philippine political leader: president 1965–86.
  • ferrocyanic acid — a white, crystalline, unstable, water-soluble solid, H 4 Fe(CN) 6 , obtained by the interaction of a ferrocyanide and an acid.
  • ferroelectricity — (physics) The electric polarization of a substance (spontaneous presence of a dipole moment) that is analagous to ferromagnetism.
  • ferruginous duck — a common European duck, Aythyra nyroca, having reddish-brown plumage with white wing bars
  • fertility factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
  • feulgen reaction — a reaction in which an aldehyde combines with a modified Schiff's reagent to produce a purplish compound: used especially to test for the presence of DNA
  • fibonacci number — a number in the Fibonacci sequence, each of which is the sum of the previous two
  • fibonacci series — a sequence of integers in which each integer (Fibonacci number) after the second is the sum of the two preceding integers; specif., the series 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, . . .
  • fictionalisation — Alternative spelling of fictionalization.
  • fictionalization — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
  • fictitious force — any force that is postulated to account for apparent deviations from Newton's laws of motion appearing in an accelerated reference system.
  • fielder's choice — a fielder's attempt to put out a base runner rather than the batter when a play at first base would put out the batter.
  • figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
  • figure-conscious — concerned to keep an attractively slim body shape
  • file composition — A typesetting language.
  • file compression — (algorithm)   The compression of data in a file, usually to reduce storage requirements.
  • finance director — financial manager
  • financial doping — the situation in which a sports franchise borrows heavily in order to contract and pay high-performing players, jeopardizing their long-term financial future
  • financialization — (economics) Conversion of intangible value into financial instruments.
  • find one's voice — If someone finds their voice, they start to speak in spite of fear or surprise or difficult circumstances.
  • finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
  • finishing school — a private school, usually at the high-school or junior-college level, that teaches young women social graces and prepares them for life in society.
  • fish or cut bait — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
  • flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • flight indicator — artificial horizon (def 3).
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