12-letter words containing f, u, c
- cut fastball — a fastball that breaks somewhat like a curve ball, due to increased pressure from the tip of the middle finger.
- cut-off date — the last date on which it is possible to do something
- cutlass fish — any compressed, ribbonlike fish of the genus Trichiurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- cybersurfers — Plural form of cybersurfer.
- cybersurfing — The practice of using and browsing the Internet, especially as a habitual pastime.
- 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.
- discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- double-faced — practicing duplicity; hypocritical.
- duncan phyfe — of, relating to, or resembling the furniture made by Duncan Phyfe, especially the earlier pieces in the Sheraton and Directoire styles.
- duty of care — the legal obligation to safeguard others from harm while they are in your care, using your services, or exposed to your activities
- duty officer — In the police or armed forces, a duty officer is an officer who is on duty at a particular time.
- dysfluencies — disfluency.
- dysfunctions — Plural form of dysfunction.
- effectuality — producing or capable of producing an intended effect; adequate.
- effectuating — Present participle of effectuate.
- effectuation — to bring about; effect.
- 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.
- face down/up — If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
- facial scrub — a beauty product or treatment which cleanses and exfoliates the skin of the face
- factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- factitiously — In a factitious manner.
- factor group — quotient group.
- 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.
- farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
- fascicularly — in a fascicular manner
- fasciculated — Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- 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.
- feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
- 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
- fire curtain — safety curtain.
- first cousin — cousin (def 1).