13-letter words containing n, e, c, t, a
- exact science — If you say that a particular activity is not an exact science, you mean that there are no set rules to follow or it does not produce very accurate results.
- exceptionable — Open to objection; causing disapproval or offense.
- exceptionally — To a greater degree than normal; unusually.
- exchange rate — relative value of currency
- excitableness — The quality of being excitable, excitability.
- exclamational — Relating to, or having the form of, an exclamation.
- excommunicate — Officially exclude (someone) from participation in the sacraments and services of the Christian Church.
- excoriatingly — So as to excoriate.
- excortication — the act of stripping off the outer layer, esp the bark from a tree
- excrescential — Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence.
- exotic dancer — a striptease dancer or belly dancer
- expectational — of or relating to an expectation or expectations
- expectorating — Present participle of expectorate.
- expectoration — The action of expectorating, of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs by coughing, hawking, or spitting.
- explicitation — (rare, possibly nonstandard) The process or fact of becoming explicit or of causing to be explicit; that which makes something explicit.
- extended care — nursing care provided for a limited time after a hospital stay, as in a special facility
- extractor fan — a fan used in kitchens, bathrooms, workshops, etc, to remove stale air or fumes
- extravagances — Plural form of extravagance.
- extrinsically — In an extrinsic manner.
- face painting — art of decorating the face with paint
- face-centered — (of a crystal structure) having lattice points on the faces of the unit cells.
- facetiousness — (uncountable) The state of being facetious.
- factionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of factionalize.
- falcon-gentle — the female peregrine falcon.
- fanaticalness — Fanaticism.
- fat electrons — (electronics, humour) Old-time hacker David Cargill's theory on the cause of computer glitches. Your typical electricity company draws its line current out of the big generators with a pair of coil taps located near the top of the dynamo. When the normal tap brushes get dirty, they take them off line to clean them up, and use special auxiliary taps on the *bottom* of the coil. Now, this is a problem, because when they do that they get not ordinary or "thin" electrons, but the fat sloppy electrons that are heavier and so settle to the bottom of the generator. These flow down ordinary wires just fine, but when they have to turn a sharp corner (as in an integrated-circuit via), they're apt to get stuck. This is what causes computer glitches. Compare bogon, magic smoke.
- fault current — A fault current is a current that results from a fault.
- febrifacients — Plural form of febrifacient.
- felicitations — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
- fencing match — a match between fencers
- ferrimagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as a ferrite, in which the magnetic moments of some neighboring atoms point in opposite directions, with a net magnetization still resulting because of differences in magnitudes of the opposite moments.
- ferromagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
- fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
- fictionalized — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
- fictionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fictionalize.
- field captain — a member of a team taking active part in a game who is authorized to make decisions for the team, especially in regard to planning plays, deciding whether to accept penalties called by an official against the opponents, etc.
- finite clause — a clause with a finite verb in its predicate.
- fire watching — the job of watching for fires, especially those caused by aerial bombardment
- flame cutting — a method of cutting ferrous metals in which the metal is heated by a torch to about 800°C and is oxidized by a stream of oxygen from the torch
- flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
- fonctionnaire — a civil servant
- for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
- fractionalize — Divide (someone or something) into separate groups or parts.
- fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- fracture zone — a long, narrow rift on the ocean floor, separating areas of differing depth: where such a zone crosses a mid-ocean ridge, it displaces the ridge by faulting.
- franche-comte — a former province in E France: once a part of Burgundy.
- franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
- friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.