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13-letter words containing f, i, l, c

  • fractionalize — Divide (someone or something) into separate groups or parts.
  • free climbing — climbing without using pitons, étriers, etc, as direct aids to ascent, but using ropes, belays, etc, at discretion for security
  • french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
  • french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
  • friction pile — a pile depending on the friction of surrounding earth for support.
  • fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
  • fuel-injected — (of an engine) having fuel injection.
  • fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
  • fulminic acid — an unstable acid, CNOH, isomeric with cyanic acid, and known only in the form of its salts.
  • functionalise — to make functional.
  • functionalism — (usually initial capital letter) Chiefly Architecture, Furniture. a design movement evolved from several previous movements or schools in Europe in the early 20th century, advocating the design of buildings, furnishings, etc., as direct fulfillments of material requirements, as for shelter, repose, or the serving of food, with the construction, materials, and purpose clearly expressed or at least not denied, and with aesthetic effect derived chiefly from proportions and finish, purely decorative effects being excluded or greatly subordinated. the doctrines and practices associated with this movement. Compare rationalism (def 4).
  • functionalist — a person who advocates, or works according to, the principles of functionalism.
  • functionality — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • functionalize — to make functional.
  • futurological — Pertaining to futurology.
  • genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
  • glacial drift — material, as gravel, sand, or clay, transported and deposited by a glacier or by glacial meltwater.
  • glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
  • hair follicle — a small cavity in the epidermis and corium of the skin, from which a hair develops.
  • half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
  • half-scottish — Also, Scots. of or relating to Scotland, its people, or their language.
  • honorifically — In a honorific manner.
  • hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
  • ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
  • ichthyofaunal — relating to ichthyofauna
  • ile de france — a former province in N France, including Paris and the region around it.
  • Île-de-france — a region of N France, in the Paris Basin: part of the duchy of France in the 10th century
  • impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
  • imperfectible — that cannot be perfected.
  • in difficulty — If you are in difficulty or in difficulties, you are having a lot of problems.
  • in-capable of — not capable.
  • inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
  • ineffectively — not effective; not producing results; ineffectual: ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
  • ineffectually — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
  • inefficiently — not efficient; unable to effect or achieve the desired result with reasonable economy of means.
  • infant school — In Britain, an infant school is a school for children between the ages of five and seven.
  • inflorescence — a flowering or blossoming.
  • influenceable — 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.
  • informercials — Plural form of informercial.
  • infrascapular — (anatomy) Beneath the scapula.
  • infructuously — in an infructuous or unfruitful manner; fruitlessly
  • interfaceable — Capable of being interfaced.
  • islamofascism — an ideology promoted by some Islamists, the aims of which are to establish Islamic orthodoxy and to resist western secularism
  • isle of capri — Capri.
  • jellification — The process or result of jellifying.
  • john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
  • jollification — jolly merrymaking; jolly festivity.
  • landing craft — any of various flat-bottomed vessels designed to move troops and equipment close to shore.
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
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