13-letter words containing f, r, c, o
- staff officer — a commissioned officer who is a member of a staff.
- stereo effect — the spatial effect given to sound that is achieved by using two or more separate microphones to feed two or more loudspeakers through separate channels
- 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.
- tariff office — a company whose premiums are based on a tariff agreed with other insurance companies
- tariffication — the creation, fixing, or conversion of a tariff
- telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
- testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
- the comforter — the Holy Spirit: John 14:26
- thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
- thurification — the act of incense-burning
- to catch fire — If an object or substance catches fire, it starts burning.
- to perfection — impeccably, perfectly
- 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.
- tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
- umbraculiform — umbrella-shaped
- unciform bone — a small bone of the wrist
- uncomfortable — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
- uncomfortably — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
- unconformable — not conformable; not conforming.
- unconformably — not conformable; not conforming.
- unenforceable — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
- unforthcoming — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
- unreproachful — not deserving reproach or blame
- versification — the act of versifying.
- vicar of bray — a vicar (Simon Aleyn) appointed to the parish of Bray in Berkshire during Henry VIII's reign who changed his faith to Catholic when Mary I was on the throne and back to Protestant when Elizabeth I succeeded and so retained his living
- vitrification — act or process of vitrifying; state of being vitrified.
- ward of court — a person, esp a minor or one legally incapable of managing his own affairs, placed under the control or protection of a guardian or of a court
- watch out for — remain vigilant for, beware of
- woodcraftsman — a person who is skilled in woodcraft.
- work function — Physics. the least energy necessary to free an electron from a metal surface.
- year of grace — a specified year of the Christian era: this year of grace; the year of grace 1982.