13-letter words containing f, i, r, e, c, s
- focal seizure — an epileptic manifestation arising from a localized anomaly in the brain, as a small tumor or scar, and usually involving a single motor or sensory mechanism but occasionally spreading to other areas and causing convulsions and loss of consciousness.
- food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
- for chrissake — for Christ's sake
- for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- force a smile — to make oneself smile
- forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
- foreconscious — the preconscious.
- fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
- fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- 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.
- frisches haff — a lagoon in N Poland. 52 miles (84 km) long; 4–12 miles (6–19 km) wide.
- frontispieces — Plural form of frontispiece.
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- furaciousness — the quality of being furacious or thievish
- handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
- house officer — a doctor who is the most junior member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually resident in the hospital
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- imperfections — A fault, blemish, or undesirable feature.
- imperfectives — Plural form of imperfective.
- imperfectness — of, relating to, or characterized by defects or weaknesses: imperfect vision.
- in respect of — with regard, with reference
- indifferences — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
- inflorescence — a flowering or blossoming.
- informercials — Plural form of informercial.
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
- infraspecific — of or relating to a subdivision of a species, as a subspecies, variety, or cultivar.
- interferences — Plural form of interference.
- interspecific — existing or occurring between species.
- intraspecific — existing or occurring within a species.
- isle of capri — Capri.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- microfelsitic — (of a rock) showing evidence of crystallization having begun, but not yet having formed any crystals
- microfloppies — 3.5-inch floppies, as opposed to 5.25-inch vanilla or mini-floppies and the now-obsolete 8-inch variety. This term may be headed for obsolescence as 5.25-inchers pass out of use, only to be revived if anybody floats a sub-3-inch floppy standard. See stiffy, minifloppies.
- mis-reference — an act or instance of referring.
- mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- nectariferous — producing nectar.
- nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
- nonconiferous — Not coniferous.
- office seeker — a person who seeks appointment or election to some government position.
- officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
- perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
- perfectionist — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
- prescientific — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
- press officer — A press officer is a person who is employed by an organization to give information about that organization to the press.