19-letter words containing f, i, c, o
- communist manifesto — a political pamphlet written by Marx and Engels in 1848: a fundamental statement of Marxist principles
- complement fixation — the fixing of complement into the product of an antigen-antibody reaction: used as an infection indicator in certain serologic tests that measure the presence or absence of free, active complement
- complete fertilizer — a fertilizer containing nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, the three principal elements required for plant nutrition.
- confectioner's shop — a sweet shop
- confederate jasmine — star jasmine.
- confession of faith — a formal public avowal of religious beliefs
- confidence interval — an interval of values bounded by confidence limits within which the true value of a population parameter is stated to lie with a specified probability
- confocal microscope — a light microscope with an optical system designed to reject background from matter outside the focal plane and therefore allowing images of different sections of a specimen to be obtained
- consumer confidence — If there is consumer confidence, people generally are willing to spend money and buy things.
- continuous function — (loosely) a mathematical function such that a small change in the independent variable, or point of the domain, produces only a small change in the value of the function.
- contributing factor — something that is partly responsible for a development or phenomenon
- corrections officer — A corrections officer is someone who works as a guard at a prison.
- corruption of blood — the impurity before law that results from attainder and disqualifies the attainted person from inheriting, retaining, or bequeathing lands or interests in lands: abolished in 1870.
- cost-push inflation — inflation in which prices increase as a result of increased production costs, as labor and parts, even when demand remains the same.
- counter reformation — the movement within the Roman Catholic Church that followed the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century.
- counter-reformation — the reform movement of the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th and early 17th centuries considered as a reaction to the Protestant Reformation
- creeping cinquefoil — any of several plants belonging to the genus Potentilla, of the rose family, having yellow, red, or white five-petaled flowers, as P. reptans (creeping cinquefoil) of the Old World, or P. argentea (silvery cinquefoil) of North America.
- cross one's fingers — to fold one finger across another in the hope of bringing good luck
- cross-fertilization — fertilization by the fusion of male and female gametes from different individuals of the same species
- cult of personality — a cult promoting adulation of a living national leader or public figure, as one encouraged by Stalin to extend his power.
- cyril of alexandria — Saint. ?375–444 ad, Christian theologian and patriarch of Alexandria. Feast day: June 27 or June 9
- deaf without speech — (usually of a prelingually deaf person) able to utter sounds but not speak
- deathbed confession — a confession that somebody makes just before he or she dies, usually relating to some long concealed crime or secret
- declaration of love — a statement made by one person to another in which they say they are in love with the other person
- deflate compression — deflate
- dereliction of duty — Dereliction of duty is deliberate or accidental failure to do what you should do as part of your job.
- diamond ring effect — a phenomenon, sometimes observed immediately before and after a total eclipse of the sun, in which one of Baily's beads is much brighter than the others, resembling a diamond ring around the moon.
- dictionary of names — a dictionary of given names that indicates whether a name is usually male, female, or unisex and often includes origins as well as meanings; for example, as by indicating that Evangeline, meaning “good news,” comes from Greek. Used primarily as an aid in selecting a name for a baby, dictionaries of names may also include lists of famous people who have shared a name and information about its current popularity ranking.
- difference equation — (mathematics) A relation between consecutive elements of a sequence. The first difference is D u(n) = u(n+1) - u(n) where u(n) is the nth element of sequence u. The second difference is u(n+2) + a u(n+1) + b u(n) = 0 can be converted to a difference equation (in this case, a second order linear difference equation): D2 u(n) + p D u(n) + q u(n) = 0 and vice versa. a, b, p, q are constants.
- diffraction grating — a band of equidistant, parallel lines, usually more than 5000 per inch (2000 per centimeter), ruled on a glass or polished metal surface for diffracting light to produce optical spectra.
- diffraction pattern — the phenomenon exhibited by wave fronts that, passing the edge of an opaque body, are modulated, thereby causing a redistribution of energy within the front: it is detectable in light waves by the presence of a pattern of closely spaced dark and light bands (diffraction pattern) at the edge of a shadow.
- director of studies — a member of staff at an educational institution who has responsibility for overseeing the curriculum
- disciples of christ — a Christian denomination, founded in the U.S. by Alexander Campbell in the early part of the 19th century, that rejects all creeds, holds the Bible as a sufficient rule of faith and practice, administers baptism by immersion, celebrates the Lord's Supper every Sunday, and has a congregational polity.
- doctrine of descent — the theory that animals and plants arose by descent from previously existing organisms; theory of evolution
- elastic deformation — In elastic deformation a material changes shape when a stress is applied to it but goes back to its original state when the stress is removed.
- electromotive force — a source of energy that can cause a current to flow in an electrical circuit or device
- electrostatic field — an electric field associated with static electric charges
- engineering factory — a factory where engineering products are made
- entry qualification — the qualifications and conditions required to join an organization, club, etc
- expeditionary force — An expeditionary force is a group of soldiers who are sent to fight in a foreign country.
- factitious disorder — any of various syndromes, as Münchausen syndrome, characterized by physical or psychological symptoms intentionally produced by a person and under voluntary control.
- facultative apomict — a plant that can reproduce sexually or asexually.
- fallacy of division — the fallacy of inferring that a property of the whole is also a property of parts or members of the whole (opposed to fallacy of composition).
- false consciousness — a Marxist theory that people are unable to see things, especially exploitation, oppression, and social relations, as they really are; the hypothesized inability of the human mind to develop a sophisticated awareness of how it is developed and shaped by circumstances.
- family practitioner — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
- farmers cooperative — an organization of farmers for marketing their products or buying supplies.
- fashion coordinator — a person in a department store or other establishment who coordinates activities centered upon or related to fashion, as fashion themes, shows, displays, and promotion.
- feast of dedication — Hanukkah.
- female circumcision — clitoridectomy.
- ferrite core memory — (storage) (Or "core") An early form of non-volatile storage built (by hand) from tiny rings of magnetisable material threaded onto very fine wire to form large (e.g. 13"x13" or more) rectangluar arrays. Each core stored one bit of data. These were sandwiched between printed circuit boards(?). Sets of wires ran horizontally and vertically and where a vertical and horizontal wire crossed, a core had both wires threaded through it. A single core could be selected and magnetised by passing sufficient current through its horizontal and vertical wires. A core would retain its magnetisation until it was re-magnetised. The two possible polarities of magnetisation were used to represent the binary values zero and one. A third "sense" wire, passed through the core and, if the magnetisation of the core was changed, a small pulse would be induced in the sense wire which could be detected and used to deduce the core's original state. Some core memory was immersed in a bath of heated oil to improve its performance. Core memory was rendered obsolete by semiconductor memory. For example, the 1970s-era NCR 499 had two boards, each with 16 kilobytes of core memory.