12-letter words containing i, c, e, f
- informercial — infomercial.
- infraclasses — Plural form of infraclass.
- insufficient — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
- inter-office — functioning or communicating between the offices of a company or organization; within a company: an interoffice memo.
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- interference — an act, fact, or instance of interfering.
- interfluence — the action of flowing together or merging
- intertraffic — traffic between two or more places or people
- irish coffee — a mixture of hot coffee and Irish whiskey, sweetened and topped with whipped cream.
- irreflection — lack of careful or long consideration
- irreflective — Without mental reflection.
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- jet aircraft — A jet aircraft is an aircraft that is powered by one or more jet engines.
- junction fet — Junction Field Effect Transistor
- kick oneself — regret sth
- kitchen foil — aluminium foil used in cooking or storing food
- knife switch — a form of air switch in which a moving element, usually a hinged blade, is placed between two contact clips.
- kupfernickel — (archaic) cupronickel.
- kylie effect — the increased awareness of breast cancer caused by the publicity surrounding its diagnosis in Kylie Minogue, born 1968, Australian singer and actress
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- leaf-climber — a plant that climbs by using leaves specialized as tendrils
- leif ericson — Leif [leef;; Icelandic leyv] /lif;; Icelandic leɪv/ (Show IPA), flourished a.d. c1000, Norse mariner: according to Icelandic saga, discoverer of Vinland (son of Eric the Red).
- life science — any science that deals with living organisms, their life processes, and their interrelationships, as biology, medicine, or ecology.
- life tenancy — holding a tenancy until the holder dies
- line officer — a military or naval officer serving with combatant units or warships, as distinguished from a staff officer, supply officer, etc.
- liquefacient — something that liquefies or promotes liquefaction.
- liquefaction — the act or process of liquefying or making liquid.
- loan officer — a bank employee who helps would-be borrowers get a loan
- loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
- macclesfield — a market town in NW England, in Cheshire: former centre of the silk industry; pharmaceuticals, services. Pop: 50 688 (2001)
- magnificence — the quality or state of being magnificent; splendor; grandeur; sublimity: the magnificence of snow-covered mountains; the magnificence of his achievements.
- malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
- mercifulness — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
- mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
- metafictions — Plural form of metafiction.
- metafunction — (computing, programming) A function which calls all the other functions of a certain program; the only function that can be called independently.
- microfinance — (finance) Finance that is provided to unemployed or low-income people or groups.
- microforceps — (surgery) A very small forceps.
- mischanceful — unlucky
- misconfigure — Configure (a system or part of it) incorrectly.
- misinference — Incorrect inference.
- misreference — to reference (an academic work, a publication, etc) inaccurately or incorrectly
- misspecified — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- modificative — (grammar) That which modifies or qualifies, as a word or clause.
- moire effect — the appearance, when two regularly spaced sets of lines are superimposed, of a new set of lines (moiré pattern) passing through the points where the original lines cross at small angles.
- monospecific — having or comprising a single species
- moschiferous — giving off or producing musk
- multifaceted — Having many facets.
- multifurcate — forked; branching.