13-letter words containing f, o, c, u

loss function — (in decision theory) a function that expresses the loss incurred when a decision is made in terms of various factors.
low frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 kilohertz. Abbreviation: LF.
malfunctional — Not functioning as intended.
malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
memo function — (programming) (Or "memoised function") A function that remembers which arguments it has been called with and the result returned and, if called with the same arguments again, returns the result from its memory rather than recalculating it. Memo functions were invented by Professor Donald Michie of Edinburgh University. The idea was further developed by Robin Popplestone in his Pop2 language long before it was ever worked into LISP. This same principle is found at the hardware level in computer architectures which use a cache to store recently accessed memory locations. A Common Lisp package by Marty Hall <[email protected]> ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/Memoization.
metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
multifactoral — Involving multiple factors.
multifunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
mummification — to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying.
mundification — the act of cleansing a wound
munroe effect — the reinforcement of shock waves in the concave, hollow end of a shaped charge, producing a greater resultant wave and concentrating the explosion along the axis of the charge.
nectariferous — producing nectar.
neo-confucian — of or relating to an eclectic philosophical movement of the 12th to the 16th centuries, incorporating Taoist and Buddhist elements with an adaptation of Confucianism.
neuroeffector — The junction site, where a motor neuron releases a neurotransmitter to affect a target, that acts like an effector.
neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
non-fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
noncolourfast — (of a fabric) having a colour that tends to fade when washed or worn
nonconiferous — Not coniferous.
nonfunctional — Not having any particular purpose or function.
noninfectious — (of a disease or disease-causing organism) not liable to be transmitted through the environment.
not much of a — If you describe something as not much of a particular type of thing, you mean that it is small or of poor quality.
nuclear force — strong interaction
nullification — an act or instance of nullifying.
ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
office junior — a young person, esp a school-leaver, employed in an office for running errands and doing other minor jobs
officiousness — objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
on account of — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
on course for — If you are on course for something, you are likely to achieve it.
on sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
onto function — Mathematics. a function from one set to a second set, the range of which is the entire second set.
open fracture — compound fracture.
out of action — If someone or something is out of action, they are injured or damaged and cannot work or be used.
out of office — (of a government) out of power
out of pocket — small enough or suitable for carrying in the pocket: a pocket watch.
out-of-pocket — paid out in cash or from one's own financial resources and sometimes reimbursed: My out-of-pocket travel expenses included taking business clients to dinner.
overfrequency — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
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.
preconfigured — 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.
prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
public office — position in government
qualification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
qualificatory — That serves as qualification.
queue fourche — (of a lion) having a single tail divided in two partway along its length so as to have two complete ends.

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