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12-letter words containing f, u, l, c, o

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • fluoroscopic — of or relating to the fluoroscope or fluoroscopy.
  • fluorouracil — a pyrimidine analog, C 4 H 3 FN 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of certain cancers.
  • fluosilicate — a salt of fluosilicic acid.
  • focus puller — the member of a camera crew who adjusts the focus of the lens as the camera is tracked in or out
  • folliculitis — inflammation of hair follicles.
  • food vacuole — a membrane-enclosed cell vacuole with a digestive function, containing material taken up in by the process of phagocytosis.
  • forcefulness — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
  • foreclosures — Plural form of foreclosure.
  • formal cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
  • fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • four old cat — three old cat played with four batters.
  • four-channel — Audio. quadraphonic.
  • four-o'clock — a common garden plant, Mirabilis jalapa, of the four-o'clock family, having tubular red, white, yellow, or variegated flowers that open late in the afternoon.
  • fourth-class — of, relating to, or designated as a class next below third, as for mailing, shipping, etc.
  • functionable — functional (def 3).
  • functionally — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • functionless — Lacking a function.
  • funnel cloud — a rapidly rotating funnel-shaped cloud extending downward from the base of a cumulonimbus cloud, which, if it touches the surface of the earth, is a tornado or waterspout.
  • furunculosis — the condition characterized by the presence of boils.
  • genuflection — an act of bending the knee or touching it to the ground in reverence or worship.
  • hydrofluoric — of or derived from hydrofluoric acid.
  • inclusive of — including; taking into account
  • inconfutable — (obsolete) Not confutable.
  • infectiously — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
  • infelicitous — inapt, inappropriate, or awkward; malapropos: an infelicitous remark.
  • jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
  • joule effect — the generation of heat by the passage of electricity through a resistance.
  • labour force — The labour force consists of all the people who are able to work in a country or area, or all the people who work for a particular company.
  • laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
  • liquefaction — the act or process of liquefying or making liquid.
  • lumbriciform — resembling a lumbricus; wormlike
  • malfunctions — Plural form of malfunction.
  • microfluidic — Of, pertaining to, or using microfluidics.
  • muffle color — Ceramics. a color fired onto an object in a muffle kiln.
  • nonfluencies — spoken or written with ease: fluent French.
  • noninfluence — a lack of influence, failure to influence
  • out of place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
  • out of scale — If something is out of scale with the things near it, it is too big or too small in relation to them.
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