12-letter words containing o, c, a, r
- etheromaniac — a person who is addicted to ether
- ethnographic — Relating to ethnography.
- euphorically — In a euphoric manner.
- eutrophicate — (ecology, intransitive) To become eutrophic.
- evisceration — A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.
- exacerbation — An increase in the severity of something (such as a disease).
- exclusionary — restrictive or elitist
- excoriations — Plural form of excoriation.
- excruciation — Some excruciating pain.
- exercitation — (obsolete) The exercise or exertion of some power, responsibility, faculty etc.
- expectorants — Plural form of expectorant.
- expectorated — Simple past tense and past participle of expectorate.
- extralogical — Outside of the domain of logic.
- exulceration — the process of ulceration
- fabrications — Plural form of fabrication.
- facilitators — Plural form of facilitator.
- facilitatory — That serves to facilitate.
- factor group — quotient group.
- factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
- factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
- factory acts — laws relating to factories
- factory farm — a farm in which animals are bred and fattened using modern industrial methods
- factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
- factory work — work in a factory
- false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
- fascia-board — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
- fast reactor — a nuclear reactor using little or no moderator, fission being caused by fast neutrons
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- ferrocyanide — a salt of ferrocyanic acid, as potassium ferrocyanide, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 .
- fibroblastic — a cell that contributes to the formation of connective tissue fibers.
- fibrosarcoma — a sarcoma derived from fibroblast cells, often able to generate collagen.
- fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
- flag officer — a naval officer above the rank of captain, as a fleet admiral, admiral, vice-admiral, rear admiral, or commodore, who is entitled to display a flag indicating his or her rank.
- flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
- float collar — A float collar is a part near the bottom of the casing string which catches the bottom plug and top plug, and which prevents mud from entering the casing.
- flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
- flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
- fluorocarbon — any of a class of compounds produced by substituting fluorine for hydrogen in a hydrocarbon, and characterized by great chemical stability: used chiefly as a lubricant, refrigerant, fire extinguishing agent, and in industrial and other applications in which chemical, electrical, flame, and heat resistance is essential; banned as an aerosol propellant in the U.S. because of concern about ozone layer depletion.
- fluorouracil — a pyrimidine analog, C 4 H 3 FN 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of certain cancers.
- foot traffic — the wear and tear caused to a surface by people walking on it
- for a change — contrary to the norm
- for instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- for-instance — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- forasmuch as — since
- forbearances — Plural form of forbearance.
- forced march — any march that is longer than troops are accustomed to and maintained at a faster pace than usual, generally undertaken for a particular objective under emergency conditions.