12-letter words containing f, o, c
- face-to-face — with the fronts or faces toward each other, especially when close together.
- facebook.com — (web) One of the most popular social networking websites.
- facilitation — the act or process of facilitating.
- facilitators — Plural form of facilitator.
- facilitatory — That serves to facilitate.
- fact of life — any aspect of human existence that must be acknowledged or regarded as unalterable: Old age is a fact of life.
- factionalism — of a faction or factions.
- factionalist — of a faction or factions.
- factionalize — (especially of a political party or other organized group) split or divide into factions.
- factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- factitiously — In a factitious manner.
- factor group — quotient group.
- factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
- factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
- factory acts — laws relating to factories
- factory farm — a farm in which animals are bred and fattened using modern industrial methods
- factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
- factory work — work in a factory
- faith school — a school that provides a general education within a framework of a specific religious belief
- fall back on — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fallaciously — In a fallacious manner, erroneously, illogically.
- false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
- fascia-board — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
- fascinations — Plural form of fascination.
- fascioliasis — liver-rot.
- fashion icon — a person or thing that is very well known as being highly fashionable
- fast reactor — a nuclear reactor using little or no moderator, fission being caused by fast neutrons
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- feet of clay — a weakness or hidden flaw in the character of a greatly admired or respected person: He was disillusioned to find that even Lincoln had feet of clay.
- felicitation — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
- felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
- fennoscandia — region in N Europe, including Scandinavia, Finland, and the part of NW Russia west of the White Sea
- ferric oxide — a dark-red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, Fe 2 O 3 , occurring naturally, as hematite and rust, or synthesized: used chiefly as a pigment, as a mordant, as a coating for magnetic recording tape, and in the manufacture of polishing compounds.
- ferrite core — a ferrite magnetic core used in a core memory.
- ferrocyanide — a salt of ferrocyanic acid, as potassium ferrocyanide, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 .
- ferrofluidic — Of or pertaining to a ferrofluid.
- ferrosilicon — a ferroalloy containing up to 95 percent silicon.
- fianchettoed — Simple past tense and past participle of fianchetto.
- fiber optics — the branch of optics that deals with the transmission of light through transparent fibers, as in the form of pulses for the transmission of data or communications, or through fiber bundles for the transmission of images.
- fibre optics — optical fibre
- fibrinogenic — producing fibrin.
- fibrinolytic — the disintegration or dissolution of fibrin, especially by enzymatic action.
- fibroblastic — a cell that contributes to the formation of connective tissue fibers.
- fibrosarcoma — a sarcoma derived from fibroblast cells, often able to generate collagen.
- 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.
- fictitiously — created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false: fictitious names.