13-letter words containing f, u, c
- ichthyofaunal — relating to ichthyofauna
- immunifacient — causing immunity
- impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
- in difficulty — If you are in difficulty or in difficulties, you are having a lot of problems.
- ineffectually — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
- inefficacious — not able to produce the desired effect; ineffective.
- influenceable — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
- 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.
- interfunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
- justificative — Justificatory.
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
- lingua franca — any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages.
- liquefacients — Plural form of liquefacient.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- liquification — Alternative form of liquefaction.
- loss function — (in decision theory) a function that expresses the loss incurred when a decision is made in terms of various factors.
- low frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 kilohertz. Abbreviation: LF.
- lucifer match — friction match.
- magnetic flux — the total magnetic induction crossing a surface, equal to the integral of the component of magnetic induction perpendicular to the surface over the surface: usually measured in webers or maxwells.
- magnus effect — the thrust on a cylinder rotating about its axis while in motion in a fluid, the thrust being perpendicular to the relative motion of the cylinder in the fluid.
- malfunctional — Not functioning as intended.
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- manufacturers — Plural form of manufacturer.
- manufacturing — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- match-funding — the stipulation set by a grant-providing body that the recipients of a grant raise a certain percentage of the money they require, generally a sum more or less equal to that of the sum of money being granted
- meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
- memo function — (programming) (Or "memoised function") A function that remembers which arguments it has been called with and the result returned and, if called with the same arguments again, returns the result from its memory rather than recalculating it. Memo functions were invented by Professor Donald Michie of Edinburgh University. The idea was further developed by Robin Popplestone in his Pop2 language long before it was ever worked into LISP. This same principle is found at the hardware level in computer architectures which use a cache to store recently accessed memory locations. A Common Lisp package by Marty Hall <[email protected]> ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/Memoization.
- metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
- miracle fruit — the berrylike fruit of either of two African shrubs, Synsepalum dulcificum or Thaumatococcus daniellii, that, when chewed, causes sour substances to taste sweet.
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- mixing faucet — a single outlet for water from separately controlled hot-water and cold-water taps.
- motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- multi-faceted — having many facets, as a gem.
- multifactoral — Involving multiple factors.
- multifunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- mummification — to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying.
- mundification — the act of cleansing a wound
- mundificative — a cleansing medicine or preparation
- munroe effect — the reinforcement of shock waves in the concave, hollow end of a shaped charge, producing a greater resultant wave and concentrating the explosion along the axis of the charge.
- nectariferous — producing nectar.
- neo-confucian — of or relating to an eclectic philosophical movement of the 12th to the 16th centuries, incorporating Taoist and Buddhist elements with an adaptation of Confucianism.
- neuroeffector — The junction site, where a motor neuron releases a neurotransmitter to affect a target, that acts like an effector.