13-letter words containing f, r, i, o
- conformations — Plural form of conformation.
- confraternity — a group of men united for some particular purpose, esp Christian laymen organized for religious or charitable service; brotherhood
- confrontation — A confrontation is a dispute, fight, or battle between two groups of people.
- confrontative — tending toward or ready for confrontation: They came to the meeting with a confrontational attitude.
- coniferophyte — (biology) conifer.
- contrafactive — Denoting a verb that assigns to its object (normally a clausal object) the status of not being true, e.g., pretend and wish.
- coralliferous — bearing or containing coral
- coreferential — (of more than one linguistic expression) designating the same individual or class
- cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
- cornification — the process of producing a horn or horny substance
- corollifloral — relating to, or belonging to, a subclass of plants known as Corolliflorae, which have gamopetalous corolla and stamens attached to the corolla
- corrie-fisted — left-handed
- cottage fries — potatoes that have been thinly sliced and then fried
- couch surfing — to stay overnight in someone’s else’s home while traveling: He couch-surfed at the houses of strangers and friends.
- counterfeited — Simple past tense and past participle of counterfeit.
- counterfeiter — made in imitation so as to be passed off fraudulently or deceptively as genuine; not genuine; forged: counterfeit dollar bills.
- counterfeitly — in a counterfeit manner
- covering fire — firing intended to protect an individual or formation making a movement by forcing the enemy to take cover
- crock of shit — a quantity or source of lies or nonsense
- cross-fertile — capable of cross-fertilization or of being cross-fertilized
- cross-footing — Accounting. to total figures horizontally across columns instead of vertically.
- crosscut file — a file having two intersecting rows of teeth
- crowd surfing — the practice of being passed over the top of a crowd of people such as an audience at a pop concert
- cycloparaffin — any of a series of saturated alicyclic hydrocarbons of the general formula CnH2n, having a closed chain of three or more carbon atoms, as cyclohexane
- dairy factory — a factory making butter, cheese, lactose, etc from milk collected from surrounding farming areas
- date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
- defibrillator — A defibrillator is a machine that starts the heart beating normally again after a heart attack, by giving it an electric shock.
- defibrination — the act or process of defibrinating
- defloration's — the act of deflowering.
- deforestation — to divest or clear of forests or trees: Poor planning deforested the area in ten years.
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
- deformational — of or relating to deformation
- deptford pink — a plant, Dianthus armeria, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, having slender, erect stems and leaves and clusters of small, bright pink flowers.
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- diffarreation — (historical) A form of divorce, among the Ancient Romans, in which a cake was used.
- diffeomorphic — (mathematics) Having a diffeomorphism.
- diffractogram — An image produced by a diffractometer.
- disafforested — Simple past tense and past participle of disafforest.
- discomforting — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconfirming — Not confirming.
- disconformity — Geology. the surface of a division between parallel rock strata, indicating interruption of sedimentation: a type of unconformity.
- disfiguration — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- doppler shift — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
- double-figure — double-digit.
- draft version — a preliminary version
- drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
- dress uniform — U.S. Air Force. a uniform consisting of the coat and trousers of the service uniform, with a white shirt and black bow tie, worn for formal occasions.
- driving force — impetus
- drownproofing — a survival technique, for swimmers or nonswimmers, in which the body is allowed to float vertically in the water, with the head submerged, the lungs filled with air, and the arms and legs relaxed, the head being raised to breathe every ten seconds or so.
- ear infection — an infection that affects the ear