12-letter words containing f, i, c, t, o
- momification — the transition of a successful career woman into one who is chiefly concerned with homemaking and raising children
- narcotraffic — Traffic in narcotics.
- nazification — to place under Nazi control or influence.
- nick of time — moment before sth is too late
- nidification — to build a nest.
- night office — the office for matins.
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- non-friction — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
- nonaffective — of, caused by, or expressing emotion or feeling; emotional.
- noneffective — not effective.
- nonfictional — the branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality, including biography, history, and the essay (opposed to fiction and distinguished from poetry and drama).
- north africa — the northern part of Africa, especially the region north of the tropical rain forest and comprised of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and that part of Egypt west of the Gulf of Suez.
- north-facing — facing towards the north
- notification — a formal notifying or informing.
- oasification — The process of restoring water, soil, and plant life to an environment that has been degraded by soil erosion.
- obfuscations — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- objectifying — Present participle of objectify.
- of necessity — something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
- office party — a party or informal social gathering for all the employees in a particular organization or department
- olfactronics — the measurement and analysis of smells through instruments
- optical diff — vdiff
- ossification — the act or process of ossifying.
- ostrich fern — a tall North American fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, with large mature leaves that resemble ostrich plumes, a popular landscaping plant whose curled new leaves, called fiddleheads, are eaten as a vegetable.
- out of voice — with the voice temporarily in a poor condition, esp for singing
- outer office — the reception area of an office, outside of the main working area
- pacification — to pacify.
- palification — the act of fortifying something with stakes
- panification — the making of bread
- pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
- perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
- petrifaction — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
- phi-function — Euler's phi-function.
- pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
- plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
- plastic foam — expanded plastic.
- pocket knife — A pocket knife is a small knife with several blades which fold into the handle so that you can carry it around with you safely.
- point defect — an imperfection in a crystal's lattice structure, either a missing atom or ion creating a vacancy in the lattice or an extra atom or ion between two normal lattice points creating an interstitial.
- pontificates — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- pontificator — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- post-fascist — of or relating to various right-wing political parties in Europe which espouse a modified form of fascism and which take part in constitutional politics
- prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
- prime factor — any number in the set of prime numbers that is also a factor of a given integer
- proficiently — well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
- pulp fiction — fiction dealing with lurid or sensational subjects, often printed on rough, low-quality paper manufactured from wood pulp.
- purification — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
- putrefaction — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- qualificator — (in an ecclesiastical court) an officer charged with examining cases and preparing them for trial.
- ramification — the act or process of ramifying.
- ratification — the act of ratifying; confirmation; sanction.