13-letter words containing f, o, n, c
- rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
- reconfiguring — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- rectification — the act of rectifying, or the fact of being rectified.
- reflex-action — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- refocillation — the restoring of strength by refreshment or revivement
- reinforceable — capable of being reinforced
- reinforcement — the act of reinforcing.
- reperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- retroflection — a bending backward.
- reunification — the process of unifying or uniting; union: the unification of the 13 original colonies.
- role conflict — emotional conflict arising when competing demands are made on an individual in the fulfillment of his or her multiple social roles.
- rose of china — China rose (def 2).
- russification — Russianize (defs 1, 2).
- san francisco — a seaport in W California, on San Francisco Bay: earthquake and fire 1906; United Nations Conference 1945.
- sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
- sao francisco — a river flowing NE and E through E Brazil into the Atlantic. 1800 miles (2900 km) long.
- 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
- scarification — an act or instance of scarifying.
- 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.
- scorification — an assaying process whereby gold or silver is separated from ore by fusion with lead.
- scorpion fish — any of several tropical and temperate marine scorpaenid fishes, especially members of the genus Scorpaena, many having venomous dorsal spines.
- scout uniform — the uniform worn by the Scouts
- second fiddle — a secondary role: to play second fiddle to another person.
- second of arc — second2 (def 4).
- self-conflict — to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
- self-conquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
- self-contempt — the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
- self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- self-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
- sensate focus — a series of touching exercises designed to increase intimacy in a sexual relationship
- shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
- sign of peace — the liturgical practice of giving a sign of peace, union, or friendship, as a handshake or embrace, at some point in a Christian service, esp. in a Mass or Communion service
- signification — meaning; import; sense.
- significatory — serving to signify
- skin friction — the friction acting on a solid body when it is moving through a fluid
- slash fiction — a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist: Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction. Also called slash.
- soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
- solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
- 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
- south african — of southern Africa.
- space fiction — a book, film, TV series, etc, set in outer space
- specification — the act of specifying.
- staff section — section (def 10b).
- step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
- 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.
- surface noise — extraneous noise caused by physical wear or a physical flaw on a phonograph record or in a pickup system, rather than by a flaw in the equipment.
- tariffication — the creation, fixing, or conversion of a tariff