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12-letter words containing f, r, o

  • confrontment — Confrontation.
  • consent form — a form signed by a patient prior to a medical procedure to confirm that he or she agrees to the procedure and is aware of any risks that might be involved
  • containerful — As much as a container can hold.
  • content farm — a website that exploits the way search engines retrieve and rank pages by incorporating popular search terms and topics in its content, often with little attention to the originality, appropriateness, or quality of the subject matter, in order to elevate the ranking of its articles in online search results and attract advertisers.
  • content-free — (jargon)   1. (By analogy with "context-free") Used of a message that adds nothing to the recipient's knowledge. Though this adjective is sometimes applied to flamage, it more usually connotes derision for communication styles that exalt form over substance or are centred on concerns irrelevant to the subject ostensibly at hand. Perhaps most used with reference to speeches by company presidents and other professional manipulators. See also four-colour glossies. (education)   2. Within British schools the term refers to general-purpose software such as a word processor, a spreadsheet or a program that tests spelling of words supplied by the teacher. This is in contrast to software designed to teach a particular topic, e.g. a plant growth simulation, an interactive periodic table or a program that tests spelling of a predetermined list of words. Content-free software can be more cost-effective as it can be reused for many lessons throughout the syllabus.
  • control flow — (programming)   (Or "flow of control") The sequence of execution of the instructions in a program. Control flow is normally linear, executing the instructions in the order they were written but can be changed at run time by control structures (e.g. if statements or goto statements) used in the program creating conditional branches, loops, etc. Not to be confused with "flow control".
  • copperfasten — (transitive, historical) To protect the timbers [of a ship] with plates of copper secured with copper nails or bolts.
  • coral fungus — any of a group of brightly colored fungi having erect, branching fruiting bodies that resemble coral.
  • corticofugal — (of a nerve fiber) originating in and running from the cerebral cortex.
  • cosurfactant — a surfactant that acts in addition to another surfactant, further reducing the surface tension of a liquid
  • cotortfeasor — (legal) A joint tortfeasor.
  • couchsurfing — Couchsurfing is the practice of sleeping at the houses of several different people for a period of time without paying.
  • council fire — a fire kept burning continually during a council of American Indians.
  • counter-fact — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
  • counterbluff — a bluff made in opposition to another bluff
  • counterfeits — Plural form of counterfeit.
  • counterfoils — Plural form of counterfoil.
  • counterforce — a force that acts in opposition to another force
  • counterforts — Plural form of counterfort.
  • counteroffer — A counteroffer is an offer that someone makes, for example, for a house or business, in response to an offer by another person or group.
  • counterproof — a reverse impression of a newly printed proof of an engraving made by laying it while wet upon plain paper and passing it through the press
  • countershaft — an intermediate shaft that is driven by, but rotates in the opposite direction to, a main shaft, esp in a gear train
  • country folk — people who live in the country
  • country life — life in the country
  • courier firm — a firm that provides special delivery services
  • court of law — When you refer to a court of law, you are referring to a legal court, especially when talking about the evidence that might be given in a trial.
  • coxless four — a boat for four oarsman and no cox
  • craftspeople — Craftspeople are people who make things skilfully with their hands.
  • craftsperson — an artisan
  • craniofacial — relating to both the cranium and the face
  • cricket frog — either of two tree frogs, Acris gryllus or A. crepitans, of eastern and central U.S., having a clicking call.
  • crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
  • crook rafter — a rafter for maintaining the angle between a principal rafter and a tie or collar beam.
  • crop failure — a failure of crops to yield sufficient food, etc, to maintain a community or to provide a surplus to sell
  • crowdfunding — Crowdfunding is when a large number of people each give an amount of money to pay for a project, especially by using a website to collect the money.
  • crown office — (in England) an office of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court that is responsible for administration and where actions are entered for trial
  • crucifiction — Misspelling of crucifixion.
  • crucifixions — Plural form of crucifixion.
  • cruciformity — being in the shape of a cross; cross-shaped.
  • crystal form — a symmetrical set of planes in space, associated with a crystal, having the same symmetry as the crystal class
  • csk software — (company)   An international software company formed by the merger of Quay Financial Software and Micrognosis, and fully owned by CSK Corporation, Japan. CSK Software is based in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) with offices in London (UK), Zurich (Switzerland), Madrid (Spain), and Singapore. Products segments are RDD: Real-time data delivery, main product is Slingshot for delivering real-time data over the Internet (real push technology). ETS: Electronic Trading Systems, price calculation and automatic trading (with connections to XONTRO and XETRA). EAI: Enterprise Application Integration, main product is XGen, a universal message converter with GUI and connections also to SWIFT. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: CSK Software AG, Opernplatz 2, D-60313 Frankfurt, Germany. Tel: +49 (69) 509 520. Fax: +49 (69) 5095 2333.
  • cuckooflower — a bitter cress (Cardamine pratensis) bearing white or rose flowers; lady's-smock
  • cuneiformist — a person who studies or deciphers cuneiform writing.
  • cupuliferous — of or relating to the Cupuliferae family of trees which includes oak, hazel, chestnut, etc
  • currant loaf — a loaf-shaped fruit cake containing currants
  • curry favour — to ingratiate oneself, esp with superiors
  • curvifoliate — having leaves curved or bent back
  • customs form — a form for customs, concerning the nature, value, destination, etc, of goods being imported or exported
  • cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
  • cylindriform — having the form or shape of a cylinder
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