11-letter words containing l, c, f
- focal depth — lens: distance of sharp focus
- focal plane — a plane through a focal point and normal to the axis of a lens, mirror, or other optical system. Compare principal plane.
- focal point — Also called principal focus. Optics. either of two points on the axis of a mirror, lens, or other optical system, one point being such that rays diverging from it are deviated parallel to the axis upon refraction or reflection by the system and the other point being such that rays parallel to the axis of the system converge to the point upon refraction or reflection by the system.
- focal ratio — f-number.
- foliicolous — growing on leaves, as certain liverworts.
- folio recto — the front of the page; recto (opposed to folio verso).
- folktronica — a musical genre that combines elements from folk and electronic music
- folliculate — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling a follicle or follicles; provided with follicles.
- folliculose — having or resembling follicles
- folliculous — having or producing follicles
- fond du lac — a city in E Wisconsin, on Lake Winnebago.
- food parcel — parcels of food prepared and sent, esp by charitable organizations, to people in need
- foot-candle — a unit of illuminance or illumination, equivalent to the illumination produced by a source of one candle at a distance of one foot and equal to one lumen incident per square foot. Abbreviation: FC.
- footlockers — Plural form of footlocker.
- force field — A force field is an area of energy, such as magnetic energy, that surrounds an object or place.
- forced sale — a sale held as a result of a judicial order.
- forcepslike — Resembling a forceps.
- forecastles — Plural form of forecastle.
- foreclosing — Present participle of foreclose.
- foreclosure — the act of foreclosing a mortgage or pledge.
- forficulate — resembling scissors
- formalistic — strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
- four-colour — (of a print or photographic process) using the principle in which four colours (magenta, cyan, yellow, and black) are used in combination to produce almost any other colour
- four-h club — an organization sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, established chiefly to instruct young people, originally in rural areas, in modern farming methods and other useful skills, as carpentry and home economics.
- fractionlet — a small piece
- fractiously — In a fractious manner.
- fracturable — Capable of being fractured.
- francophile — friendly to or having a strong liking for France or the French.
- frantically — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- fratricidal — a person who kills his or her brother.
- fraudulence — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- fraudulency — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- freckleface — A person with many freckles.
- free clinic — centre offering free medical treatment
- free recall — the recollection of the members of a list of items without regard to their serial order
- free school — a privately run school organized as an alternative to the traditional public or private school, usually following a highly flexible approach to the curriculum and teaching methods.
- free-select — to select (areas of crown land) and acquire the freehold by a series of annual payments
- freecooling — a system that uses low ambient air temperature to chill water, esp for use in air conditioning
- freelancers — Plural form of freelancer.
- freelancing — Present participle of freelance.
- french flat — a flat that can be raised to or hung from the flies, and that contains practicable doors, windows, etc.
- french heel — a high, curved heel, characterized by a heel breast curving into a shank, used on women's shoes.
- french loaf — baguette, long stick of bread
- french roll — a circular or oval bread roll having a hard or crispy crust.
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- front crawl — a style of swimming in which the swimmer faces downwards and moves their arms alternately in strokes
- fruticulose — (botany) Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
- full circle — to the original place, source, or state through a cycle of developments (usually used in the phrase come full circle).
- full cousin — cousin (def 1).
- full-custom — Design of integrated circuits at the transistor or polygon level. This is in contrast to the use of libraries of components. Full-custom design requires considerable skill and experience and is usually only feasible for simple circuits, especially ones with much repetition, such as memory device, where a small saving in the size and power consumption of a component will yield a large overall saving.