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19-letter words containing f, i, c

  • chief petty officer — the senior naval rank for personnel without commissioned or warrant rank
  • chinese finger trap — a child's toy, consisting of a small cylinder of woven straw or paper into which the forefingers are placed, one in each end: the harder one pulls, the more securely the fingers are held.
  • chinese fleece-vine — a hardy, twining, woody plant, Polygonum auberti, of the buckwheat family, native to western China and Tibet, having greenish-white, fragrant flowers in drooping clusters.
  • chinese liver fluke — a parasitic Asian flatworm, Clonorchis sinensis, that infects the gastrointestinal tract and bile duct following ingestion of contaminated raw or insufficiently cooked freshwater fish.
  • chlorosulfonic acid — a colorless or yellowish, highly corrosive, pungent liquid, HClO 3 S, usually produced by treating sulfur trioxide with hydrogen chloride: used in organic synthesis to introduce the sulfonyl chloride group, =SO 2 Cl.
  • circle of confusion — a circular spot on a film, resulting from the degree to which a pencil of light reflected from the field of view is focused in front of or behind the film, or from aberration of the lens, or from both.
  • circle of curvature — the circle with its center on the normal to the concave side of a curve at a given point on the curve and with its radius equal to the radius of curvature at the point.
  • circular definition — a definition in which the definiendum (the expression being defined) or a variant of it appears in the definiens (the expression that defines it).
  • city of seven hills — Rome2
  • city of westminster — a borough of Greater London, on the River Thames: contains the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, and Buckingham Palace. Pop: 222 000 (2003 est). Area: 22 sq km (8 sq miles)
  • claims notification — Claims notification is the process of informing an insurance company that a loss has occurred and that the policyholder intends to ask for money as a result.
  • clemastine fumarate — an antihistamine, C 25 H 30 ClNO 5 , that has drying and some sedative effects, used for symptomatic relief of allergy.
  • coefficient of drag — the ratio of the drag on a body moving through air to the product of the velocity and surface area of the body.
  • colorado tick fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in the Rocky Mountain regions of the United States, carried by a tick, Dermacentor andersoni, and characterized by fever, sensitivity to light, headache, and leg and back pain.
  • come to think of it — You use the expression come to think of it to indicate that you have suddenly realized something, often something obvious.
  • commercial software — (software)   (Or "commercial off-the-shelf software", COTS) Software that is produced for sale. This contrasts with free software, which is produced for free distribution, meaning without charge and/or without restriction on further distribution. Some companies that sell software distribute some (versions) of products free of charge (but usually with restricted distribution rights), this would probably still be called commercial software. Conversely, software that an individual distributes for free, but for which he accepts donations, would still be called free software.
  • comminuted fracture — a fracture in which the bone is splintered or fragmented
  • communion of saints — the spiritual fellowship of all true Christians, living and dead
  • communist manifesto — a political pamphlet written by Marx and Engels in 1848: a fundamental statement of Marxist principles
  • complement fixation — the fixing of complement into the product of an antigen-antibody reaction: used as an infection indicator in certain serologic tests that measure the presence or absence of free, active complement
  • complete fertilizer — a fertilizer containing nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, the three principal elements required for plant nutrition.
  • confectioner's shop — a sweet shop
  • confederate jasmine — star jasmine.
  • confession of faith — a formal public avowal of religious beliefs
  • confidence interval — an interval of values bounded by confidence limits within which the true value of a population parameter is stated to lie with a specified probability
  • confocal microscope — a light microscope with an optical system designed to reject background from matter outside the focal plane and therefore allowing images of different sections of a specimen to be obtained
  • consumer confidence — If there is consumer confidence, people generally are willing to spend money and buy things.
  • continuous function — (loosely) a mathematical function such that a small change in the independent variable, or point of the domain, produces only a small change in the value of the function.
  • contributing factor — something that is partly responsible for a development or phenomenon
  • corrections officer — A corrections officer is someone who works as a guard at a prison.
  • corruption of blood — the impurity before law that results from attainder and disqualifies the attainted person from inheriting, retaining, or bequeathing lands or interests in lands: abolished in 1870.
  • cost-push inflation — inflation in which prices increase as a result of increased production costs, as labor and parts, even when demand remains the same.
  • counter reformation — the movement within the Roman Catholic Church that followed the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century.
  • counter-reformation — the reform movement of the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th and early 17th centuries considered as a reaction to the Protestant Reformation
  • credit default swap — a contract in which the parties exchange the exposure to loss should a creditor fail to make a payment when it comes due back
  • creeping cinquefoil — any of several plants belonging to the genus Potentilla, of the rose family, having yellow, red, or white five-petaled flowers, as P. reptans (creeping cinquefoil) of the Old World, or P. argentea (silvery cinquefoil) of North America.
  • creeping featuritis — (jargon)   /kree'ping fee'-chr-i:`t*s/ A variant of creeping featurism, with its own spoonerism: "feeping creaturitis". Some people like to reserve this form for the disease as it actually manifests in software or hardware, as opposed to the lurking general tendency in designers' minds. -ism means "condition" or "pursuit of", whereas -itis usually means "inflammation of".
  • cross one's fingers — to fold one finger across another in the hope of bringing good luck
  • cross-fertilization — fertilization by the fusion of male and female gametes from different individuals of the same species
  • crystallized fruits — fruits that are covered in sugar which is melted and then allowed to harden
  • culler-fried system — A system for interactive mathematics.
  • cult of personality — a cult promoting adulation of a living national leader or public figure, as one encouraged by Stalin to extend his power.
  • cyril of alexandria — Saint. ?375–444 ad, Christian theologian and patriarch of Alexandria. Feast day: June 27 or June 9
  • deaf without speech — (usually of a prelingually deaf person) able to utter sounds but not speak
  • deathbed confession — a confession that somebody makes just before he or she dies, usually relating to some long concealed crime or secret
  • declaration of love — a statement made by one person to another in which they say they are in love with the other person
  • defence expenditure — the amount that a country spends on military measures or resources
  • deficiency judgment — a judgment in favor of a mortgagee for the remainder of a debt not completely cleared by foreclosure and sale of the mortgaged property
  • deflate compression — deflate
  • dereliction of duty — Dereliction of duty is deliberate or accidental failure to do what you should do as part of your job.
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