12-letter words containing f, u, c, l
- cut fastball — a fastball that breaks somewhat like a curve ball, due to increased pressure from the tip of the middle finger.
- cutlass fish — any compressed, ribbonlike fish of the genus Trichiurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- deflocculant — a chemical added to slip to increase fluidity.
- deflocculate — to disperse, forming a colloid or suspension
- difficulties — the fact or condition of being difficult.
- difunctional — Bifunctional.
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- double-faced — practicing duplicity; hypocritical.
- dysfluencies — disfluency.
- effectuality — producing or capable of producing an intended effect; adequate.
- electro-funk — a type of electronic music, originating in the 1980s, characterized by the use of synthesizers with a heavy rhythm and punctuated bass, often influenced by the genres of funk and hip-hop
- electrofluor — a transparent material that stores electrical energy and subsequently releases it as light
- exclusive of — not including or allowing for; ignoring
- exsufflicate — Empty, inflated, frivolous.
- facial scrub — a beauty product or treatment which cleanses and exfoliates the skin of the face
- factitiously — In a factitious manner.
- factualities — of or relating to facts; concerning facts: factual accuracy.
- fallaciously — In a fallacious manner, erroneously, illogically.
- false cirrus — a type of thick cirrus cloud spreading from the top of a cumulonimbus cloud
- false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- fancifulness — The quality of being fanciful.
- fascicularly — in a fascicular manner
- fasciculated — Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
- felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
- ferrofluidic — Of or pertaining to a ferrofluid.
- ferulic acid — a compound, C 10 H 10 O 4 , found in small amounts in lants, that occurs in two isomers, one a yellow oily liquid and the other crystalline.
- fictitiously — created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false: fictitious names.
- field circus — A derogatory pun on "field service". The field service organisation of any hardware manufacturer, but especially DEC. There is an entire genre of jokes about DEC field circus engineers: Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer with a flat tire? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer who is out of gas? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. See Easter egging for additional insight on these jokes. There is also the "Field Circus Cheer" (from the plan file for DEC on MIT-AI): Maynard! Maynard! Don't mess with us! We're mean and we're tough! If you get us confused We'll screw up your stuff. (DEC's service HQ is located in Maynard, Massachusetts).
- fifth column — a group of people who act traitorously and subversively out of a secret sympathy with an enemy of their country.
- filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
- final clause — a clause expressing intention or purpose
- fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
- flesh colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person
- flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
- flocculating — Present participle of flocculate.
- flocculation — to form into flocculent masses.
- floriculture — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
- flow country — an area of moorland and peat bogs in northern Scotland known for its wildlife, now partly afforested
- fluctuations — Plural form of fluctuation.
- fluidextract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
- fluoresceine — Alternative spelling of fluorescein.
- fluorescence — the emission of radiation, especially of visible light, by a substance during exposure to external radiation, as light or x-rays. Compare phosphorescence (def 1).
- fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
- fluorimetric — Alternative form of fluorometric.
- fluorocarbon — any of a class of compounds produced by substituting fluorine for hydrogen in a hydrocarbon, and characterized by great chemical stability: used chiefly as a lubricant, refrigerant, fire extinguishing agent, and in industrial and other applications in which chemical, electrical, flame, and heat resistance is essential; banned as an aerosol propellant in the U.S. because of concern about ozone layer depletion.
- fluorochrome — any of a group of fluorescent dyes used to label biological material.
- fluorometric — Of, pertaining to, or measured using fluorometry.
- fluoroscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoroscope.
- fluoroscopes — Plural form of fluoroscope.