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13-letter words containing o, c, t, f, i

  • fonctionnaire — a civil servant
  • fondant icing — icing made from fondant
  • food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
  • footing piece — one of a series of horizontal transverse timbers supporting a platform or staging.
  • for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
  • form function — (jargon)   The shape of something designed. This term is currently (Feb 1998) in vogue among marketroids.
  • formularistic — relating to formularization
  • fort victoria — a former name of Masvingo.
  • fortification — the act of fortifying or strengthening.
  • fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
  • fractionalism — the state of being separate or inharmonious
  • fractionalist — an advocate or supporter of fractionalism
  • fractionalize — Divide (someone or something) into separate groups or parts.
  • fractionating — Present participle of fractionate.
  • fractionation — the act or process of fractionating.
  • fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
  • friction feed — (printer)   A method some printers and plotters use to move paper by rotating one or both of a pair of spring-loaded rubber-coated rollers with the paper sandwiched between them. Friction feed printers are notorious for slipping when the rollers wear out, but can take standard typing paper. For printers with a sheet feeder, friction feed is more appropriate than sprocket feed which requires the holes in the paper to engage with the sprockets of the feed mechanism.
  • 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.
  • friction pile — a pile depending on the friction of surrounding earth for support.
  • friction tape — a cloth or plastic adhesive tape, containing a moisture-resistant substance, used especially to insulate and protect electrical wires and conductors.
  • frontispieces — Plural form of frontispiece.
  • fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
  • function room — a room designated for official or formal social gatherings or ceremonies
  • function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
  • functionalise — to make functional.
  • functionalism — (usually initial capital letter) Chiefly Architecture, Furniture. a design movement evolved from several previous movements or schools in Europe in the early 20th century, advocating the design of buildings, furnishings, etc., as direct fulfillments of material requirements, as for shelter, repose, or the serving of food, with the construction, materials, and purpose clearly expressed or at least not denied, and with aesthetic effect derived chiefly from proportions and finish, purely decorative effects being excluded or greatly subordinated. the doctrines and practices associated with this movement. Compare rationalism (def 4).
  • functionalist — a person who advocates, or works according to, the principles of functionalism.
  • functionality — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • functionalize — to make functional.
  • functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
  • futurological — Pertaining to futurology.
  • genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
  • geoscientific — relating to geoscience
  • glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
  • gratification — the state of being gratified; great satisfaction.
  • half-scottish — Also, Scots. of or relating to Scotland, its people, or their language.
  • hash function — (programming)   A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
  • horrification — That which causes horror.
  • host-specific — capable of living solely on or in one species of host, as a parasite that infests only chickens.
  • hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
  • ichthyofaunal — relating to ichthyofauna
  • imperfections — A fault, blemish, or undesirable feature.
  • in receipt of — If you are in receipt of something, you have received it or you receive it regularly.
  • in respect of — with regard, with reference
  • in the act of — while committing: crime, transgression
  • inertia force — an imaginary force supposed to act upon an accelerated body, equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the resultant of the real forces
  • infant school — In Britain, an infant school is a school for children between the ages of five and seven.
  • informatician — a person who works or studies in the field of informatics
  • infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
  • infructuously — in an infructuous or unfruitful manner; fruitlessly
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