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12-letter words containing f, o, r, c

  • duty of care — the legal obligation to safeguard others from harm while they are in your care, using your services, or exposed to your activities
  • duty officer — In the police or armed forces, a duty officer is an officer who is on duty at a particular time.
  • dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
  • eco-friendly — environmentally safe
  • efflorescent — efflorescing; blossoming.
  • efflorescing — Present participle of effloresce.
  • electro-funk — a type of electronic music, originating in the 1980s, characterized by the use of synthesizers with a heavy rhythm and punctuated bass, often influenced by the genres of funk and hip-hop
  • electrofluor — a transparent material that stores electrical energy and subsequently releases it as light
  • end effector — The end effector of an actuator is the part that comes into contact with the object being moved or controlled.
  • enforcements — Plural form of enforcement.
  • fabrications — Plural form of fabrication.
  • facilitators — Plural form of facilitator.
  • facilitatory — That serves to facilitate.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
  • field cornet — a commander of burgher troops called up in time of war or in an emergency, esp during the 19th century
  • fire company — a company of firefighters.
  • fire control — technical and sometimes automatic supervision of artillery or naval gunfire on a target, as for range, elevation, etc.
  • first cousin — cousin (def 1).
  • first school — A first school is a school for children aged between five and eight or nine.
  • fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
  • flag officer — a naval officer above the rank of captain, as a fleet admiral, admiral, vice-admiral, rear admiral, or commodore, who is entitled to display a flag indicating his or her rank.
  • flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
  • flesh colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person
  • flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
  • float collar — A float collar is a part near the bottom of the casing string which catches the bottom plug and top plug, and which prevents mud from entering the casing.
  • floor pocket — one of several metal boxes placed backstage in the floor (floor pocket) or wall of a theater and containing jacks for electric cables used in lighting units.
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