12-letter words containing f, i, n, o, c
- factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- fascinations — Plural form of fascination.
- fashion icon — a person or thing that is very well known as being highly fashionable
- felicitation — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
- fennoscandia — region in N Europe, including Scandinavia, Finland, and the part of NW Russia west of the White Sea
- ferrocyanide — a salt of ferrocyanic acid, as potassium ferrocyanide, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 .
- ferrosilicon — a ferroalloy containing up to 95 percent silicon.
- fianchettoed — Simple past tense and past participle of fianchetto.
- fibrinogenic — producing fibrin.
- fibrinolytic — the disintegration or dissolution of fibrin, especially by enzymatic action.
- fictionalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of fictionalize.
- fictionality — State or quality of being fictional.
- fictionalize — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
- field cornet — a commander of burgher troops called up in time of war or in an emergency, esp during the 19th century
- fifth column — a group of people who act traitorously and subversively out of a secret sympathy with an enemy of their country.
- fifty-second — next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
- film company — a company dedicated to the making of motion pictures
- film-coating — Film-coating is a process in which a tablet, capsule, or pellet is covered by a thin layer of film to protect it or make it easier to swallow.
- final notice — last warning before legal action
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- fire control — technical and sometimes automatic supervision of artillery or naval gunfire on a target, as for range, elevation, etc.
- first cousin — cousin (def 1).
- fixed-income — gaining or yielding a more or less uniform rate of income.
- flocculating — Present participle of flocculate.
- flocculation — to form into flocculent masses.
- flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
- fluctuations — Plural form of fluctuation.
- fluoresceine — Alternative spelling of fluorescein.
- focalization — (optics) Putting into focus.
- folinic acid — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 20 H 23 N 7 O 7 , produced by fermentation or derived from folic acid, used in medicine in the treatment of certain anemias.
- food science — the study of the nature of foods and the changes that occur in them naturally and as a result of handling and processing.
- for instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- for-instance — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- forcibleness — The quality of being forcible.
- forensically — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
- forked chain — branched chain.
- fornications — Plural form of fornication.
- fornicatress — (obsolete) A woman guilty of fornication.
- fort collins — a city in N Colorado.
- fort pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- fractionally — pertaining to fractions; comprising a part or the parts of a unit; constituting a fraction: fractional numbers.
- fractionated — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionate.
- fractionator — Chemistry. an apparatus for fractional distillation. Compare cracker (def 10).
- francophilia — Alternative capitalization of Francophilia.
- francophobia — the phenomenon of hating French speakers, culture, or people
- free coinage — the unrestricted coinage of bullion or of a specified metal, as silver, into money for any person bringing it to the mint, either with or without charge for minting.
- french union — a former association of France and its overseas territories, colonies, and protectorates as constituted in 1946: superseded by the French Community in 1958.
- friction rub — the sound, heard through a stethoscope, made by the rubbing together of the two inflamed layers of pericardium in patients with pericarditis or of pleura in patients with pleurisy
- friction saw — a high-speed circular saw, usually toothless, that is used for cutting metals by using frictional heat to melt the material adjacent to it.