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14-letter words containing f, u, n, c

  • high frequency — the range of frequencies in the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 megahertz.
  • huffman coding — (algorithm)   A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
  • humidification — to make humid.
  • in actual fact — You use in fact, in actual fact, or in point of fact to indicate that you are giving more detailed information about what you have just said.
  • in full career — at full speed
  • ineffectuality — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
  • infectiousness — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
  • infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
  • inference rule — (logic)   A procedure which combines known facts to produce ("infer") new facts. For example, given that 1. Socrates is a man and that 2. all men are motal, we can infer that Socrates is mortal. This uses the rule known as "modus ponens" which can be written in Boolean algebra as (A & A => B) => B (if proposition A is true, and A implies B, then B is true). Or given that, 1. Either Denis is programming or Denis is sad and 2. Denis is not sad, we can infer that Denis is programming. This rule can be written ((A OR B) & not B) => A (If either A is true or B is true (or both), and B is false, then A must be true). Compare syllogism.
  • inferior court — a court of limited jurisdiction
  • infrastructure — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
  • inquiry office — an office or department of a business, organization, etc, which deals with inquiries or requests for information
  • insufficiently — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
  • interinfluence — to influence reciprocally or mutually
  • junior officer — an officer who is not in overall command of a military unit
  • justifications — Plural form of justification.
  • kentucky fried — Southern-fried (def 1).
  • kentucky rifle — a long-barreled muzzleloading flintlock rifle developed near Lancaster, Pa., in the early 18th century and widely used on the frontier.
  • leafcutter ant — any of various South American ants of the genus Atta that cut pieces of leaves and use them as fertilizer for the fungus on which they feed
  • life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
  • life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.
  • lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
  • malfunctioning — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
  • manufacturable — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • minucius felix — Marcus, Roman writer of the 2nd century a.d. whose dialogue Octavius is the earliest known work of Latin-Christian literature.
  • mother-fucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • multi-function — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • multifrequency — Of or pertaining to multiple frequencies.
  • neglectfulness — The characteristic of being neglectful.
  • non-functional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • non-infectious — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
  • nonfluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
  • nonfunctioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
  • nuclear fusion — fusion (def 4).
  • occluded front — a composite front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front and forces it aloft.
  • offer document — a document sent by a person or firm making a takeover bid to the shareholders of the target company, giving details of the offer that has been made and, usually, reasons for accepting it
  • on the surface — to all appearances
  • out of context — If a statement or remark is quoted out of context, the circumstances in which it was said are not correctly reported, so that it seems to mean something different from the meaning that was intended.
  • out of control — wild, unrestrained
  • outperformance — The act or state of outperforming.
  • over-influence — 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.
  • parturifacient — inducing or accelerating labor, or childbirth; oxytocic.
  • perfect number — a positive number that is equal to the sum of all positive integers that are submultiples of it, as 6, which is equal to the sum of 1, 2, and 3.
  • polyfunctional — containing more than one functional group.
  • porcupine fish — 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.
  • premanufacture — to manufacture in advance
  • preunification — of the period before unification
  • qualifications — Plural form of qualification.
  • quantification — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
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