13-letter words containing f, r, i, c, s
- friar's chair — frailero.
- frisches haff — a lagoon in N Poland. 52 miles (84 km) long; 4–12 miles (6–19 km) wide.
- frontispieces — Plural form of frontispiece.
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- furaciousness — the quality of being furacious or thievish
- handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
- house officer — a doctor who is the most junior member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually resident in the hospital
- hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- imperfections — A fault, blemish, or undesirable feature.
- imperfectives — Plural form of imperfective.
- imperfectness — of, relating to, or characterized by defects or weaknesses: imperfect vision.
- in respect of — with regard, with reference
- indifferences — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
- inflorescence — a flowering or blossoming.
- informercials — Plural form of informercial.
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
- infrascapular — (anatomy) Beneath the scapula.
- infraspecific — of or relating to a subdivision of a species, as a subspecies, variety, or cultivar.
- 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
- interferences — Plural form of interference.
- interspecific — existing or occurring between species.
- intraspecific — existing or occurring within a species.
- isle of capri — Capri.
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- microfelsitic — (of a rock) showing evidence of crystallization having begun, but not yet having formed any crystals
- microfloppies — 3.5-inch floppies, as opposed to 5.25-inch vanilla or mini-floppies and the now-obsolete 8-inch variety. This term may be headed for obsolescence as 5.25-inchers pass out of use, only to be revived if anybody floats a sub-3-inch floppy standard. See stiffy, minifloppies.
- microsoft dos — Microsoft Disk Operating System
- microsoft iis — Internet Information Server
- mis-reference — an act or instance of referring.
- mischiefmaker — Alternative form of mischief-maker.
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- nectariferous — producing nectar.
- nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
- nonconformism — The refusal to conform to common standards, conventions, rules, traditions or laws.
- nonconformist — a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
- nonconiferous — Not coniferous.
- office seeker — a person who seeks appointment or election to some government position.
- officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
- perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
- perfectionist — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- pontificators — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- 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.
- presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
- prescientific — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
- press officer — A press officer is a person who is employed by an organization to give information about that organization to the press.
- profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor