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13-letter words containing f, o, u, r, c

  • flag of truce — a white flag displayed as an invitation to the enemy to confer, or carried as a sign of peaceful intention by one sent to deal with the enemy.
  • floor cushion — a cushion placed on the floor of a room for people to sit on
  • floor furnace — a small self-contained furnace placed just below the floor of the space to be heated.
  • floricultural — Of or pertaining to floriculture.
  • fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
  • fluoroacetate — a toxic chemical compound, C2H2FNaO2, occurring naturally in certain plants, and commonly used as rat poison
  • fluorocarbons — Plural form of fluorocarbon.
  • fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
  • fluorographic — of or pertaining to fluorography
  • fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
  • fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.
  • fluoroscopist — One who carries out fluoroscopy.
  • 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.
  • foldoc source — The source text of FOLDOC is a single plain text file. FOLDOC is also available on paper from your local printer but, at 700,000+ words, that would be about 2000 pages.
  • food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
  • force majeure — an unexpected and disruptive event that may operate to excuse a party from a contract.
  • forced labour — labour done because of force; compulsory labour
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • foreconscious — the preconscious.
  • fork luncheon — déjeuner à la fourchette.
  • form function — (jargon)   The shape of something designed. This term is currently (Feb 1998) in vogue among marketroids.
  • formicivorous — ant-eating.
  • formulaically — made according to a formula; composed of formulas: a formulaic plot.
  • formularistic — relating to formularization
  • fort huachuca — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in SE Arizona, SE of Tucson.
  • fort mcmurray — a town in NE Alberta, in W Canada, on the Athabasca River.
  • fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
  • fractocumulus — low ragged slightly bulbous cloud, often appearing below nimbostratus clouds during rain
  • fractostratus — low ragged layered cloud often appearing below nimbostratus clouds during rain
  • fracture zone — a long, narrow rift on the ocean floor, separating areas of differing depth: where such a zone crosses a mid-ocean ridge, it displaces the ridge by faulting.
  • frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
  • fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
  • fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
  • function room — a room designated for official or formal social gatherings or ceremonies
  • function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
  • functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
  • furaciousness — the quality of being furacious or thievish
  • futurological — Pertaining to futurology.
  • ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
  • gyrofrequency — the frequency of rotation of an electron or other charged particle in a magnetic field, directly proportional to the charge of the particle and to the field strength and inversely proportional to the mass of the particle.
  • house officer — a doctor who is the most junior member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually resident in the hospital
  • hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
  • hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
  • hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
  • infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
  • infructuously — in an infructuous or unfruitful manner; fruitlessly
  • inns of court — (in England) the four private unincorporated societies in London that function as a law school and have the exclusive privilege of calling candidates to the English bar
  • interfunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
  • low frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 kilohertz. Abbreviation: LF.
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