12-letter words containing f, i, l, c
- color filter — colored glass, dyed gelatin, etc., used to produce certain color or light effects, as in photography
- column shift — A column shift is a gearshift lever mounted on the steering column.
- come to life — If something or someone comes to life, they become active.
- comfortingly — In a comforting manner.
- comic relief — a comic interlude, or comic element, in a tragedy
- complexified — Simple past tense and past participle of complexify.
- complexifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complexify.
- conferential — Of or pertaining to a conference.
- confessional — A confessional is the small room in a church where Christians, especially Roman Catholics, go to confess their sins.
- confidential — Information that is confidential is meant to be kept secret or private.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- conflictions — to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
- conformality — (mathematics) The condition (of a map) of being conformal.
- conformingly — In a way that conforms.
- containerful — As much as a container can hold.
- cooking film — a plastic film used for wrapping or covering food
- cooking foil — a thin sheet of aluminium used for wrapping or covering food
- corticofugal — (of a nerve fiber) originating in and running from the cerebral cortex.
- council fire — a fire kept burning continually during a council of American Indians.
- council flat — a flat built or owned by a local council
- counterfoils — Plural form of counterfoil.
- country life — life in the country
- craniofacial — relating to both the cranium and the face
- crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
- crinkle leaf — a disease of plants, characterized by puckering, mottling, and distortion of the leaves, caused by any of several viruses.
- crop failure — a failure of crops to yield sufficient food, etc, to maintain a community or to provide a surplus to sell
- cupuliferous — of or relating to the Cupuliferae family of trees which includes oak, hazel, chestnut, etc
- curvifoliate — having leaves curved or bent back
- cut and fill — a process of localized gradation whereby material eroded from one place is deposited a short distance away.
- cutlass fish — any compressed, ribbonlike fish of the genus Trichiurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- cyclic shift — a transfer of digits from one end of a machine word to the other, retaining the same order in both places.
- cylindriform — having the form or shape of a cylinder
- decalcifying — Present participle of decalcify.
- declassified — to remove the classification from (information, a document, etc.) that restricts access in terms of secrecy, confidentiality, etc. Compare classification (def 5).
- declassifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declassify.
- deconflicted — Simple past tense and past participle of deconflict.
- deflectional — of or relating to deflection
- difficulties — the fact or condition of being difficult.
- difunctional — Bifunctional.
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- dysfluencies — disfluency.
- eco-friendly — environmentally safe
- effectiveley — Misspelling of effectively.
- effectuality — producing or capable of producing an intended effect; adequate.
- efflorescing — Present participle of effloresce.
- electrifying — Present participle of electrify.
- eliza effect — (jargon) /e-li:'z* *-fekt'/ (From ELIZA) The tendency of humans to attach associations to terms from prior experience. For example, there is nothing magic about the symbol "+" that makes it well-suited to indicate addition; it's just that people associate it with addition. Using "+" or "plus" to mean addition in a computer language is taking advantage of the ELIZA effect. The ELIZA effect is a Good Thing when writing a programming language, but it can blind you to serious shortcomings when analysing an Artificial Intelligence system. Compare ad-hockery; see also AI-complete.
- exclusive of — not including or allowing for; ignoring
- exsufflicate — Empty, inflated, frivolous.