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14-letter words containing f, i, c

  • biscuit-firing — the first firing given to pottery, before it is glazed
  • block faulting — the process by which tensional forces in the earth's crust cause large bodies of rock to founder.
  • body of christ — the Christian Church
  • booking office — A booking office is a room where tickets are sold and booked, especially in a theatre or station.
  • branch officer — (in the British navy since 1949) any officer who holds warrant
  • budget deficit — the amount by which government expenditure exceeds income from taxation, customs duties, etc, in any one fiscal year
  • cache conflict — (storage)   A sequence of accesses to memory repeatedly overwriting the same cache entry. This can happen if two blocks of data, which are mapped to the same set of cache locations, are needed simultaneously. For example, in the case of a direct mapped cache, if arrays A, B, and C map to the same range of cache locations, thrashing will occur when the following loop is executed: See also ping-pong.
  • café macchiato — a hot beverage consisting of espresso and a small amount of foamed milk.
  • cafeteria plan — a fringe-benefit plan under which employees may choose from among various benefits those that best fit their needs, up to a specified dollar value.
  • calorification — the production of heat
  • caltrop family — the plant family Zygophyllaceae, typified by tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having pinnate leaves, solitary or paired regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the creosote bush, lignum vitae, and puncture vine.
  • camp fire girl — a girl who is a member of Camp Fire, Inc., an organization for girls founded in 1910, and since 1975 also including boys, to promote character-building activities
  • can ill afford — If you say that someone can ill afford to do something, or can ill afford something, you mean that they must prevent it from happening because it would be harmful or embarrassing to them.
  • canicola fever — an acute febrile disease of humans and dogs, characterized by inflammation of the stomach and intestines and by jaundice: caused by a spirochete, Leptospira canicola.
  • cape guardafui — a cape at the NE tip of Somalia, extending into the Indian Ocean
  • capital inflow — In economics, capital inflow is the amount of capital coming into a country, for example in the form of foreign investment.
  • caprimulgiform — Of or pertaining to the taxonomic order Caprimulgiformes.
  • careers office — a room or building in which vocational advice can be obtained from a Careers Officer and which often also has books, leaflets, etc on careers
  • carrion feeder — any animal that feeds on dead and rotting flesh
  • carrion flower — a liliaceous climbing plant, Smilax herbacea of E North America, whose small green flowers smell like decaying flesh
  • catch sight of — to make out by means of the eyes; discern; see
  • center fielder — the player whose position is center field.
  • central office — (communications)   The place where telephone companies terminate customer lines and locate switching equipment to interconnect those lines with other networks.
  • centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
  • centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
  • certifications — Plural form of certification.
  • certified mail — If you send a letter or package by certified mail, you send it using a mail service which gives you an official record of the fact that it has been mailed and delivered.
  • certified milk — milk that is processed according to the sanitation standards in the area in which it is sold
  • change of life — The change of life is the menopause.
  • charter flight — a flight booked by a holiday company to transport their customers
  • chest of viols — a set of viols of different sizes, usually six in number, used in consorts
  • chicken fillet — a fillet cut from a chicken
  • chief engineer — the senior engineer on board a ship
  • chief of staff — The Chiefs of Staff are the most senior officers in each service of the armed forces.
  • chief of state — the titular head of a nation, as a president or king.
  • childbed fever — puerperal fever.
  • chippewa falls — a city in W Wisconsin.
  • chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
  • chlorosulfuric — (inorganic chemistry) Of or pertaining to chlorosulfuric acid or its derivatives.
  • chopping knife — a knife for chopping meat, vegetables etc
  • christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
  • circumferences — Plural form of circumference.
  • circumferentor — an instrument that measures the circumference of a tyre
  • circumfixation — a prefix and a suffix attached to a root or stem, as the a and -ing in a-going.
  • city of dundee — a council area in E Scotland. Pop: 143 090 (2003 est). Area: 65 sq km (25 sq miles)
  • clarifications — Plural form of clarification.
  • class conflict — conflict between different social or economic classes
  • classification — A classification is a division or category in a system which divides things into groups or types.
  • classificatory — the act of classifying.
  • cleaning fluid — a solvent or other solution for removing stains or cleaning particular objects
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