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

  • ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
  • in advance of — prior to
  • in confidence — full trust; belief in the powers, trustworthiness, or reliability of a person or thing: We have every confidence in their ability to succeed.
  • korf, richard — Richard Korf
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • lines of code — (programming, unit)   (LOC) A common measure of the size or progress of a programming project. For example, one can describe a completed project as consisting of 100,000 LOC; or one can characterise a week's progress as 5000 LOC. Using LOC as a metric of progress encourages programmers to reinvent the wheel or split their code into lots of short lines.
  • malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
  • meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
  • microsoft dos — Microsoft Disk Operating System
  • misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
  • modern french — the French language since c1600.
  • modifications — Plural form of modification.
  • mundification — the act of cleansing a wound
  • neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
  • no-confidence — If members of an organization pass a vote or motion of no-confidence in someone, they take a vote which shows that they no longer support that person or their ideas.
  • non-confident — having strong belief or full assurance; sure: confident of fulfillment.
  • non-defective — having a defect or flaw; faulty; imperfect: a defective machine.
  • non-fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
  • non-inflected — to modulate (the voice).
  • nonclassified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
  • nonconfidence — a motion of parliament expressing a lack of confidence in the government
  • office-holder — An office-holder is a person who has an important official position in an organization or government.
  • officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
  • offshore dock — a floating dock moored to pilings, dolphins, etc., used for cleaning and repairing medium-sized vessels.
  • orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
  • overconfident — too confident.
  • oxford accent — the accent associated with Oxford English
  • peace of mind — reassurance
  • 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.
  • rock-fill dam — a dam built mainly of rocks of various sizes fitted compactly together.
  • sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
  • scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
  • school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
  • scottish fold — a breed of medium-sized short-haired cat with folded ears
  • second fiddle — a secondary role: to play second fiddle to another person.
  • second of arc — second2 (def 4).
  • self-advocacy — the practice of having mentally handicapped people speak for themselves and control their own affairs, rather than having nonhandicapped people automatically assume responsibility for them
  • self-coloured — of one color.
  • self-composed — being or appearing to be composed; calm.
  • self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • self-procured — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
  • self-produced — produced by oneself or itself.
  • shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
  • sound effects — any sounds artificially produced, reproduced from a recording, etc, to create a theatrical effect, such as the bringing together of two halves of a hollow coconut shell to simulate a horse's gallop; used in plays, films, etc
  • spadicifloral — having flowers borne on a spadix
  • sulfonic acid — any of a large group of organic compounds of the structure RSO 2 OH, which are strong acids that give neutral sodium salts: used in the synthesis of phenols, dyes, and other substances.
  • thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
  • tour de force — an exceptional achievement by an artist, author, or the like, that is unlikely to be equaled by that person or anyone else; stroke of genius: Herman Melville's Moby Dick was a tour de force.
  • uncamouflaged — the act, means, or result of obscuring things to deceive an enemy, as by painting or screening objects so that they are lost to view in the background, or by making up objects that from a distance have the appearance of fortifications, guns, roads, etc.: Was camouflage used extensively on fighter aircraft during World War I?
  • undiscomfited — not discomfited; at ease
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