13-letter words containing f, u, c

neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
non-fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
noncolourfast — (of a fabric) having a colour that tends to fade when washed or worn
nonconiferous — Not coniferous.
nonfunctional — Not having any particular purpose or function.
noninfectious — (of a disease or disease-causing organism) not liable to be transmitted through the environment.
not much of a — If you describe something as not much of a particular type of thing, you mean that it is small or of poor quality.
nuclear force — strong interaction
nullification — an act or instance of nullifying.
ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
office junior — a young person, esp a school-leaver, employed in an office for running errands and doing other minor jobs
officiousness — objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
on account of — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
on course for — If you are on course for something, you are likely to achieve it.
on sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
onto function — Mathematics. a function from one set to a second set, the range of which is the entire second set.
open fracture — compound fracture.
out of action — If someone or something is out of action, they are injured or damaged and cannot work or be used.
out of office — (of a government) out of power
out of pocket — small enough or suitable for carrying in the pocket: a pocket watch.
out-of-pocket — paid out in cash or from one's own financial resources and sometimes reimbursed: My out-of-pocket travel expenses included taking business clients to dinner.
overfrequency — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
picture frame — mount for a picture
pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
public office — position in government
qualification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
qualificative — That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts; a qualifying term or statement.
qualificatory — That serves as qualification.
queue fourche — (of a lion) having a single tail divided in two partway along its length so as to have two complete ends.
rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
reconfiguring — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
refuse a card — If you refuse a card, you do not allow someone's credit card to be used to pay a bill.
remanufacture — to refurbish (a used product) by renovating and reassembling its components: to remanufacture a vacuum cleaner.
reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
resource fork — Macintosh file system
reunification — the process of unifying or uniting; union: the unification of the 13 original colonies.
rhesus factor — Rh factor.
ruled surface — a surface that can be generated by a straight line, as a cylinder or cone.
russification — Russianize (defs 1, 2).
scathefulness — the state or quality of being harmful or injurious
schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
school figure — (in ice skating) any one of a group of sixty-nine different figures, skated in two- or three-circle figure-eight patterns, used to test various skating movements, a skater usually being required to perform six selected ones in competition.
schutzstaffel — an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS.
scout uniform — the uniform worn by the Scouts

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