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

  • filter coffee — coffee made by filtering hot water through ground coffee
  • filter factor — a number indicating the increased exposure that a particular film should receive when a photograph is taken using a particular filter.
  • firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
  • floatcut file — file with rows of parallel teeth
  • floorcovering — A covering for a floor.
  • 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.
  • folk medicine — health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, especially food substances.
  • follicle mite — any mite of the family Demodicidae, parasitic in hair follicles of various mammals, including humans.
  • force a smile — to make oneself smile
  • fore clipping — a word formed by omitting the first part of the form from which it is derived.
  • fowling piece — a shotgun for shooting wildfowl.
  • fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
  • fractionalize — Divide (someone or something) into separate groups or parts.
  • 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.
  • friction pile — a pile depending on the friction of surrounding earth for support.
  • fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
  • functionalise — to make functional.
  • functionalize — to make functional.
  • genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
  • hair follicle — a small cavity in the epidermis and corium of the skin, from which a hair develops.
  • ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
  • in-capable of — not capable.
  • inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
  • inflorescence — a flowering or blossoming.
  • informercials — Plural form of informercial.
  • isle of capri — Capri.
  • jellification — The process or result of jellifying.
  • john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • legal fiction — an acceptance of something as true, for the sake of convenience; legal pretence
  • line of force — an imaginary line representing a field of force, such as an electric or magnetic field, such that the tangent at any point is the direction of the field vector at that point
  • 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.
  • liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
  • little office — (sometimes initial capital letters) Roman Catholic Church. an office similar to but shorter than the divine office, in honor of a saint, a mystery, or, especially, the Virgin Mary.
  • malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
  • mellification — the production of honey from nectar
  • metafictional — Of, relating to, or being metafiction.
  • microfelsitic — (of a rock) showing evidence of crystallization having begun, but not yet having formed any crystals
  • microfilament — a minute, narrow tubelike cell structure composed of a protein similar to actin, occurring singly and in bundles, involved in cytoplasmic movement and changes in cell shape.
  • microfilariae — the embryonic larva of the nematode parasite Filaria or of related genera, especially of those species that cause heartworm in dogs and elephantiasis in humans.
  • microfilmable — Suitable for storage on microfilm.
  • 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.
  • mole fraction — the ratio of the number of moles of a given component of a mixture to the total number of moles of all the components.
  • myelofibrotic — of, relating to or affected by myelofibrosis
  • naval officer — member of navy staff
  • nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
  • non-inflected — to modulate (the voice).
  • nonbeneficial — Not beneficial; that produces no benefit.
  • nonclassified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
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