14-letter words containing f, i, c
- officious will — a will by which the testator gives his or her property to the natural objects of such bounty, as the family.
- old franconian — the Franconian language before 1100; Frankish.
- old-field colt — catch-colt (def 2).
- openoffice.org — (project) (OOo) The group that produces a free (GPL) cross-platform office suite that provides much of the same functionality as Microsoft Office including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and graphics. Each program can read and write both its own and Microsoft formats.
- oral-formulaic — noting or pertaining to poetry of an earlier spoken tradition, as the Iliad, that uses formulas to aid its continued expression.
- organ of corti — Anatomy, Zoology. a structure in the cochlea of a mammal, consisting of hair cells that serve as receptors for auditory stimuli.
- over-confident — too confident.
- over-influence — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
- overconfidence — too confident.
- pacific oyster — Japanese oyster.
- pacific salmon — any salmon of the genus Oncorhynchus, especially the chinook salmon, O. tshawytscha.
- pacifistically — from a pacifistic point of view
- packet sniffer — (networking, tool) A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
- pan-africanism — the idea or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the African nations.
- parole officer — an official who supervises a prisoner who is on parole
- parturifacient — inducing or accelerating labor, or childbirth; oxytocic.
- party official — an official of a political party
- peace offering — any offering made to procure peace.
- pelican-flower — a woody vine, Aristolochia grandiflora, of the West Indies, having heart-shaped leaves and purple-spotted, purple-veined flowers from 18 to 24 inches (46 to 61 cm) wide with a long, taillike structure at the tip of the corolla.
- peltier effect — the change in temperature of either junction of a thermocouple when a current is maintained in the thermocouple and after allowance is made for a temperature change due to resistance.
- perfectibilism — the belief in the perfectibility of human nature
- perfectibilist — (predominantly in relation to the Illuminati) a person who believes that a given thing, usually human nature, is perfectible
- perfectibility — capable of becoming or of being made perfect; improvable.
- perfectiveness — the state or quality of being perfective
- petty official — a minor official in government, etc
- picture-framer — a person or company whose job is to frame photographs, paintings etc
- piece of eight — peso (def 4).
- pigeon fancier — sb who breeds pigeons
- police officer — any policeman or policewoman; patrolman or patrolwoman.
- polyfunctional — containing more than one functional group.
- pontifications — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- porcupine fish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- prairie falcon — a North American falcon, Falco mexicanus, grayish-brown above and white barred with brown below.
- prefabrication — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- prettification — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
- preunification — of the period before unification
- pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
- pride of place — the highest or most outstanding position; first place.
- primacy effect — the process whereby the first few items on a list are learnt more rapidly than the middle items
- prison officer — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- proxy conflict — a conflict between third parties, through whom enemies attack each other
- public affairs — (used with a plural verb) matters of general interest or concern, especially those dealing with current social or political issues.
- public officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
- public welfare — state aid to the poor
- quadratic form — a polynomial all of whose terms are of degree 2 in two or more variables, as 5 x 2 − 2 xy + 3 y 2 .
- qualifications — Plural form of qualification.
- quality factor — a property of ionizing radiations that affects their ability to cause biological effects. For weakly ionizing radiations such as gamma rays it has value 1 whilst for alpha rays it is about 20
- quantification — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- quasi-official — a person appointed or elected to an office or charged with certain duties.
- quizzification — mockery