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14-letter words containing f, i, c

  • crutched friar — a member of a mendicant order, suppressed in 1656
  • cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • cult following — the admiration that is felt by a particular group for a film, book, band, etc
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • cut-off device — a device that terminates the flow or supply of something
  • cut-off switch — a switch that cuts off the supply of electricity
  • cylinder front — a front cover for a desk or the like, consisting either of a solid piece or of a tambour sliding up and back in quadrantal grooves.
  • de-icing fluid — a liquid that removes or discourages the formation of ice
  • decaffeination — The removal of caffeine.
  • declassifiable — Suitable to be declassified.
  • defect density — (programming)   The ratio of the number of defects to program length.
  • defective year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
  • defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
  • deflocculation — to reduce from a flocculent state by dispersing the flocculated particles.
  • delta function — a generalized function having the value 0 except at 0, the value infinity at 0, and an integral from minus infinity to plus infinity of 1, used in thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
  • denazification — The process of bringing the leaders of the National Socialist regime in Germany to justice and of purging all elements of Nazism from public life, carried out especially between 1945 and 1948.
  • denitrificator — an apparatus which is used in denitrification, particularly in sulphuric acid works
  • detoxification — Detoxification is treatment given to people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol in order to stop them from being addicted.
  • diffractometer — an instrument that is used to study atomic crystal structure by measuring the angles at which x-rays, neutrons, or electrons are diffracted by matter.
  • diffractometry — The elucidation of the structures of crystalline materials by the use of X-ray diffraction.
  • discomfitingly — In a manner that discomfits.
  • discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
  • disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
  • disfranchising — Present participle of disfranchise.
  • disneyfication — to create or alter in a simplified, sentimentalized, or contrived form or manner: museums that have become Disneyfied to attract more visitors.
  • domestic staff — servants
  • drawing office — an office where drawings are made
  • drifting cloud — Japanese Uki Gumo. a novel (1887–89) by Shimei Futabatei.
  • drone aircraft — a pilotless radio-controlled aircraft used for reconnaissance or bombing
  • effective dose — the amount of a drug, or level of radiation exposure, that is sufficient to achieve the desired clinical improvement.
  • eigenfrequency — One of the natural resonant frequencies of a system.
  • electric fence — a fence with an electric current in it, typically used to keep cattle in a field
  • electric field — a field of force surrounding a charged particle within which another charged particle experiences a force
  • electrifyingly — In an electrifying manner.
  • electrofishing — the practice of catching fish by stunning them with electric current or by attracting them through the use of electricity
  • electroforming — a process used to create a metallic object by electrolytic deposition on a mould or matrix
  • emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • ergocalciferol — Constituent of vitamin D1 and vitamin D2.
  • esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
  • fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
  • face the music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
  • facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
  • factitiousness — The quality of being factitious.
  • fall victim to — If you fall victim to something or someone, you suffer as a result of them, or you are killed by them.
  • fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
  • falling action — the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
  • false scorpion — any small predatory arachnid of the order Pseudoscorpionida, which includes the book scorpion and is named from the claw-shaped palps, which are poison organs
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
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