9-letter words containing i, f, c, o
- factories — A building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine.
- factoring — one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
- factorise — (mathematics): To create a list of factors.
- factorize — Mathematics. to resolve into factors.
- fair copy — a copy of a document made after final correction.
- falcation — the state of being falcate, a falcate appendage
- falchions — Plural form of falchion.
- falciform — sickle-shaped; falcate.
- falconine — any of several birds of prey of the family Falconidae, especially of the genus Falco, usually distinguished by long, pointed wings, a hooked beak with a toothlike notch on each side of the upper bill, and swift, agile flight, typically diving to seize prey: some falcon species are close to extinction.
- falconoid — an antioxidant compound found in tea and thought to resist cancer
- feracious — Producing in abundance; fertile, fruitful.
- fermionic — (physics) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fermions.
- ferocious — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- fibonacci — Leonardo (leoˈnardo), also called Leonardo of Pisa. ?1170–?1250, Italian mathematician: popularized the decimal system in Europe
- fibrocyte — an inactive fibroblast
- fictional — invented as part of a work of fiction: Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective.
- filaceous — composed of threads
- fine-comb — to use a fine-tooth comb on.
- finocchio — Florence fennel.
- firelocks — Plural form of firelock.
- fish crow — a crow, Corvus ossifragus, of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America, that feeds on fish, mollusks, etc.
- fivescore — (archaic) Hundred.
- flintlock — an outmoded gunlock in which a piece of flint striking against steel produces sparks that ignite the priming.
- floptical — Denoting or relating to a type of floppy-disk drive using a laser to position the read-write head.
- floricane — a plant stem that grows for a year before bearing fruit and flowers, as in the bramble or raspberry.
- floristic — pertaining to flowers or a flora.
- flouncing — a strip of material gathered or pleated and attached at one edge, with the other edge left loose or hanging: used for trimming, as on the edge of a skirt or sleeve or on a curtain, slipcover, etc.
- fluoboric — containing the univalent group BF 4 − .
- fluorotic — Relating to fluorosis.
- focalized — Simple past tense and past participle of focalize.
- focalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of focalize.
- focusings — Plural form of focusing.
- focussing — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- foeticide — feticide.
- folkloric — based on or resembling folklore: folkloric music.
- follicles — Plural form of follicle.
- fonticuli — fontanelles
- foodchain — Alternative spelling of food chain.
- for kicks — If you say that someone does something for kicks, you mean that they do it because they think it will be exciting.
- force fit — assembly of two tightly fitting parts, as a hub on a shaft, made by a press or the like.
- forcipate — having the shape of or resembling a forceps.
- forecabin — the forward cabin on a vessel
- forechoir — antechoir.
- forecited — previously cited.
- forensics — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
- forestick — the front log in a wood fire, as in a fireplace.
- forficate — deeply forked, as the tail of a bird.
- formicant — (medicine,obsolete) Of the pulse: weak and rapid.
- formicary — an ant nest.
- formicate — To move like ants.