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

  • deflectometer — An instrument that measures the deflection of structures when loads are applied.
  • delirifacient — anything that causes or induces delirium
  • difficultness — The state or quality of being difficult.
  • discontentful — exhibiting a lack of contentment
  • disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
  • disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
  • domestic fowl — a chicken.
  • effectualness — The state or condition of being effectual.
  • efficaciously — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
  • efflorescence — the state or a period of flowering.
  • electric fire — a device that provides heat for a room from an incandescent electric element
  • electric flux — the product of the electric displacement and the area across which it is displaced in an electric field
  • electroformed — Produced, or modified by electroforming.
  • epileptic fit — a sudden attack of epilepsy, involving loss of consciousness with or without convulsions
  • fabric filter — A fabric filter is a type of filter in which solids are removed from a gas by passing it though a fabric.
  • face validity — the extent to which a psychological test appears to measure what it is intended to measure
  • facial eczema — a disease of sheep and cattle, occurring in warm areas of North Island, New Zealand. It is caused by a fungus, Pithomyces chartarum, and causes impairment of liver function and reddening, itching, scab formation, and swelling of the skin, esp on the face
  • facial tissue — a soft, disposable paper tissue especially for cleansing the face or for use as a handkerchief.
  • factionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of factionalize.
  • facts of life — any aspect of human existence that must be acknowledged or regarded as unalterable: Old age is a fact of life.
  • facultatively — In a facultative manner.
  • falcon-gentle — the female peregrine falcon.
  • false colours — a flag to which one is not entitled, flown esp in order to deceive
  • false economy — an attempt to save money which actually leads to greater expense
  • family circle — the closely related members of a family as a group.
  • family credit — (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
  • fanaticalness — Fanaticism.
  • fat electrons — (electronics, humour)   Old-time hacker David Cargill's theory on the cause of computer glitches. Your typical electricity company draws its line current out of the big generators with a pair of coil taps located near the top of the dynamo. When the normal tap brushes get dirty, they take them off line to clean them up, and use special auxiliary taps on the *bottom* of the coil. Now, this is a problem, because when they do that they get not ordinary or "thin" electrons, but the fat sloppy electrons that are heavier and so settle to the bottom of the generator. These flow down ordinary wires just fine, but when they have to turn a sharp corner (as in an integrated-circuit via), they're apt to get stuck. This is what causes computer glitches. Compare bogon, magic smoke.
  • fault breccia — angular rock fragments produced by fracture and grinding during faulting and distributed within or adjacent to the fault plane.
  • fault current — A fault current is a current that results from a fault.
  • federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
  • feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
  • feeder school — a junior school whose pupils go to a specific secondary school
  • felicitations — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
  • female condom — a type of condom used by women and inserted into the vagina
  • fencelessness — Lack of fences.
  • ferroelectric — pertaining to a substance that possesses spontaneous electric polarization such that the polarization can be reversed by an electric field.
  • fibre channel — (storage, networking, communications)   An ANSI standard originally intended for high-speed SANs connecting servers, disc arrays, and backup devices, also later adapted to form the physical layer of Gigabit Ethernet. Development work on Fibre channel started in 1988 and it was approved by the ANSI standards committee in 1994, running at 100Mb/s. More recent innovations have seen the speed of Fibre Channel SANs increase to 10Gb/s. Several topologies are possible with Fibre Channel, the most popular being a number of devices attached to one (or two, for redundancy) central Fibre Channel switches, creating a reliable infrastructure that allows servers to share storage arrays or tape libraries. One common use of Fibre Channel SANs is for high availability databaseq clusters where two servers are connected to one highly reliable RAID array. Should one server fail, the other server can mount the array itself and continue operations with minimal downtime and loss of data. Other advanced features include the ability to have servers and hard drives seperated by hundreds of miles or to rapidly mirror data between servers and hard drives, perhaps in seperate geographic locations.
  • fickle-minded — (of a person) prone to casual change; inconstant.
  • fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
  • fictionalized — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
  • fictionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fictionalize.
  • fiddlesticks! — an expression of annoyance or disagreement
  • field captain — a member of a team taking active part in a game who is authorized to make decisions for the team, especially in regard to planning plays, deciding whether to accept penalties called by an official against the opponents, etc.
  • field cricket — any of several jumping, orthopterous insects of the family Gryllidae, characterized by long antennae and stridulating organs on the forewings of the male, as one of the species commonly found in pastures and meadows (field cricket) or on trees and shrubs (tree cricket)
  • field kitchen — the place at which the food for a unit of soldiers in the field is prepared
  • field officer — an officer holding a field grade.
  • field service — military service performed in the field
  • film recorder — a photographic device for producing a sound strip on a motion-picture film.
  • film sequence — a short piece of film or extract from a film, depicting a specific action or event
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