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

  • manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
  • misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
  • motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • multifactoral — Involving multiple factors.
  • munroe effect — the reinforcement of shock waves in the concave, hollow end of a shaped charge, producing a greater resultant wave and concentrating the explosion along the axis of the charge.
  • nectariferous — producing nectar.
  • neuroeffector — The junction site, where a motor neuron releases a neurotransmitter to affect a target, that acts like an effector.
  • neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
  • nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
  • non-fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
  • noncolourfast — (of a fabric) having a colour that tends to fade when washed or worn
  • nonconiferous — Not coniferous.
  • nuclear force — strong interaction
  • office junior — a young person, esp a school-leaver, employed in an office for running errands and doing other minor jobs
  • on course for — If you are on course for something, you are likely to achieve it.
  • on sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
  • open fracture — compound fracture.
  • overfrequency — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • 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.
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
  • qualificatory — That serves as qualification.
  • queue fourche — (of a lion) having a single tail divided in two partway along its length so as to have two complete ends.
  • 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.
  • reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • resource fork — Macintosh file system
  • reunification — the process of unifying or uniting; union: the unification of the 13 original colonies.
  • rhesus factor — Rh factor.
  • russification — Russianize (defs 1, 2).
  • school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
  • scout uniform — the uniform worn by the Scouts
  • self-coloured — of one color.
  • 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.
  • sheriff court — (in Scotland) a court having jurisdiction to try summarily or on indictment all but the most serious crimes and to deal with most civil actions
  • soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
  • solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • stick out for — If you stick out for something, you keep demanding it and do not accept anything different or less.
  • sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
  • 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.
  • thurification — the act of incense-burning
  • 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.
  • traffic court — a court that passes on alleged violations of traffic laws.
  • trifunctional — pertaining to molecules that can react at three sites.
  • trig function — Also called circular function. a function of an angle, as sine or cosine, expressed as the ratio of the sides of a right triangle.
  • umbraculiform — umbrella-shaped
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