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17-letter words containing f, i, c, t

  • specific humidity — the ratio of the mass of water vapor in air to the total mass of the mixture of air and water vapor.
  • speech difficulty — a problem encountered in speaking
  • spoonbill catfish — flathead catfish.
  • sports facilities — places and things for doing sports
  • staff association — an association of employees that performs some of the functions of a trade union, such as representing its members in discussions with the management, and may also have other social and professional purposes
  • standard function — a subprogram provided by a translator that carries out a task, for example the computation of a mathematical function, such as sine, square root, etc
  • stare in the face — to gaze fixedly and intently, especially with the eyes wide open.
  • stay of execution — If you are given a stay of execution, you are legally allowed to delay obeying an order of a court of law.
  • stereospecificity — (of a reaction) producing a simple stereoisomer.
  • stock certificate — a certificate evidencing ownership of one or more shares of stock in a corporation.
  • suffice it to say — Suffice it to say or suffice to say is used at the beginning of a statement to indicate that what you are saying is obvious, or that you will only give a short explanation.
  • sufficient reason — the principle that nothing happens by pure chance, but that an explanation must always be available
  • take no notice of — pay no attention to, disregard
  • teaching software — computer software for use in providing online education
  • technical offence — an action which is prohibited by law, but for which no blame can be attached to the person who commits it
  • the bag of tricks — every device; everything
  • the carboniferous — the Carboniferous period or rock system
  • the confederation — the original 13 states of the United States of America constituted under the Articles of Confederation and superseded by the more formal union established in 1789
  • the facts of life — the details of sexual behaviour and reproduction, esp as told to children
  • the final curtain — the closing of the curtain at the end of the action of a play
  • the life sciences — sciences such as biology, botany, physiology, zoology which are concerned with the study of living organisms
  • the olympic flame — the flame that is symbolically lit at the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia and transported by relay to the place where the Olympic Games are to be held. It is used to ignite a fire in a cauldron that will burn throughout the Games
  • the south pacific — the part of the Pacific Ocean to the south of the equator
  • thiosulfuric acid — an acid, H 2 S 2 O 3 , that may be regarded as sulfuric acid with one oxygen atom replaced by sulfur.
  • traffic diversion — a special route arranged for traffic to follow when the normal route cannot be used
  • traffic policeman — a policeman controlling traffic, esp while stationed at an intersection, or enforcing traffic regulations
  • traffic violation — driving offence
  • transfer function — The transfer function of a circuit is the ratio of the response to the input.
  • transignification — (in the Eucharist) a change in the significance of the bread and wine to symbolize the body and blood of Christ.
  • trapdoor function — a function defined from data by means of a mathematical procedure in such a way that it is easy to obtain the function when the data are known, but when the procedure and data are not known it becomes very difficult to determine the original data: used in cryptography, where the data are the characters of the plain text, or message, and the trapdoor function is the cryptogram.
  • unconformity trap — An unconformity trap is a hydrocarbon trap where the closure is made by an unconformity (= a formation of rock layers which represents a gap in the geological record).
  • unify corporation — (company)   Developers of the Unify relational database. At one time, before Sybase, they were a competitor of Oracle, et al.
  • unofficial strike — a strike that is not approved by the strikers' trade union
  • velocity of money — the frequency with which a single unit of currency or the total money supply turns over within the economy in a given year.
  • willow flycatcher — a North American flycatcher, Empidonax alnorum, of alder thickets and other moist areas, that has greenish-brown upper parts and whitish underparts and is almost indistinguishable except by voice from E. traillii (willow flycatcher)
  • wind chill factor — A wind chill factor is a measure of the cooling effect of the wind on the temperature of the air.
  • wind-chill factor — the apparent temperature felt on the exposed human body owing to the combination of temperature and wind speed.
  • with a difference — If you describe a job or holiday, for example, as a job with a difference or a holiday with a difference, you mean that the job or holiday is very interesting and unusual.
  • within an inch of — very close to
  • writ of execution — a writ ordering that a judgment be enforced
  • x-ray diffraction — diffraction of x-rays by the regularly spaced atoms of a crystal, useful for determining the arrangement of the atoms.
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