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13-letter words containing f, u, c, s

  • faunistically — in a faunistic manner
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • ferociousness — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
  • fibromuscular — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to both fibrous and muscular tissue.
  • fibrovascular — composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants: a fibrovascular bundle.
  • fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
  • film sequence — a short piece of film or extract from a film, depicting a specific action or event
  • finite clause — a clause with a finite verb in its predicate.
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
  • floor cushion — a cushion placed on the floor of a room for people to sit on
  • floutingstock — a laughing-stock; the object of mockery or flouting
  • fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
  • fluorocarbons — Plural form of fluorocarbon.
  • fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
  • fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
  • fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.
  • fluoroscopist — One who carries out fluoroscopy.
  • flying circus — a squadron of airplanes operating together, especially any of several squadrons of famous World War I aviators.
  • flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
  • focal seizure — an epileptic manifestation arising from a localized anomaly in the brain, as a small tumor or scar, and usually involving a single motor or sensory mechanism but occasionally spreading to other areas and causing convulsions and loss of consciousness.
  • foldoc source — The source text of FOLDOC is a single plain text file. FOLDOC is also available on paper from your local printer but, at 700,000+ words, that would be about 2000 pages.
  • food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • foreconscious — the preconscious.
  • formicivorous — ant-eating.
  • formularistic — relating to formularization
  • fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
  • fractocumulus — low ragged slightly bulbous cloud, often appearing below nimbostratus clouds during rain
  • fractostratus — low ragged layered cloud often appearing below nimbostratus clouds during rain
  • frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
  • fugaciousness — (obsolete) fugacity.
  • full sentence — any sentence the form of which exemplifies the most frequently used structural pattern of a particular language, as, in English, any sentence that contains a subject and a predicate; a sentence from which elliptical sentences may be derived by grammatical transformations.
  • functionalise — to make functional.
  • functionalism — (usually initial capital letter) Chiefly Architecture, Furniture. a design movement evolved from several previous movements or schools in Europe in the early 20th century, advocating the design of buildings, furnishings, etc., as direct fulfillments of material requirements, as for shelter, repose, or the serving of food, with the construction, materials, and purpose clearly expressed or at least not denied, and with aesthetic effect derived chiefly from proportions and finish, purely decorative effects being excluded or greatly subordinated. the doctrines and practices associated with this movement. Compare rationalism (def 4).
  • functionalist — a person who advocates, or works according to, the principles of functionalism.
  • functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
  • furaciousness — the quality of being furacious or thievish
  • genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
  • hash function — (programming)   A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
  • 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.
  • hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
  • impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
  • inefficacious — not able to produce the desired effect; ineffective.
  • infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
  • infrascapular — (anatomy) Beneath the scapula.
  • 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
  • insufficience — Obsolete form of insufficiency.
  • insufficiency — deficiency in amount, force, power, competence, or fitness; inadequacy: insufficiency of supplies.
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