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13-letter words containing n, e, o, c, f, u

  • interfunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
  • low frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 kilohertz. Abbreviation: LF.
  • malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
  • manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
  • memo function — (programming)   (Or "memoised function") A function that remembers which arguments it has been called with and the result returned and, if called with the same arguments again, returns the result from its memory rather than recalculating it. Memo functions were invented by Professor Donald Michie of Edinburgh University. The idea was further developed by Robin Popplestone in his Pop2 language long before it was ever worked into LISP. This same principle is found at the hardware level in computer architectures which use a cache to store recently accessed memory locations. A Common Lisp package by Marty Hall <[email protected]> ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/Memoization.
  • metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
  • misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
  • motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • munroe effect — the reinforcement of shock waves in the concave, hollow end of a shaped charge, producing a greater resultant wave and concentrating the explosion along the axis of the charge.
  • nectariferous — producing nectar.
  • neo-confucian — of or relating to an eclectic philosophical movement of the 12th to the 16th centuries, incorporating Taoist and Buddhist elements with an adaptation of Confucianism.
  • neuroeffector — The junction site, where a motor neuron releases a neurotransmitter to affect a target, that acts like an effector.
  • neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
  • nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
  • nonconiferous — Not coniferous.
  • noninfectious — (of a disease or disease-causing organism) not liable to be transmitted through the environment.
  • nuclear force — strong interaction
  • ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
  • office junior — a young person, esp a school-leaver, employed in an office for running errands and doing other minor jobs
  • officiousness — objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
  • on course for — If you are on course for something, you are likely to achieve it.
  • on sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
  • open fracture — compound fracture.
  • overfrequency — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • porcupinefish — 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.
  • preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • reconfiguring — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • reunification — the process of unifying or uniting; union: the unification of the 13 original colonies.
  • self-conquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
  • sensate focus — a series of touching exercises designed to increase intimacy in a sexual relationship
  • soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
  • solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
  • sound effects — any sounds artificially produced, reproduced from a recording, etc, to create a theatrical effect, such as the bringing together of two halves of a hollow coconut shell to simulate a horse's gallop; used in plays, films, etc
  • step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
  • surface noise — extraneous noise caused by physical wear or a physical flaw on a phonograph record or in a pickup system, rather than by a flaw in the equipment.
  • uncamouflaged — the act, means, or result of obscuring things to deceive an enemy, as by painting or screening objects so that they are lost to view in the background, or by making up objects that from a distance have the appearance of fortifications, guns, roads, etc.: Was camouflage used extensively on fighter aircraft during World War I?
  • unciform bone — a small bone of the wrist
  • uncomfortable — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
  • unconformable — not conformable; not conforming.
  • undiscomfited — not discomfited; at ease
  • unenforceable — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
  • unreproachful — not deserving reproach or blame
  • wave function — a solution of a wave equation.
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