12-letter words containing o, c, t, f
- facilitation — the act or process of facilitating.
- facilitators — Plural form of facilitator.
- facilitatory — That serves to facilitate.
- fact of life — any aspect of human existence that must be acknowledged or regarded as unalterable: Old age is a fact of life.
- factionalism — of a faction or factions.
- factionalist — of a faction or factions.
- factionalize — (especially of a political party or other organized group) split or divide into factions.
- factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- factitiously — In a factitious manner.
- 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
- faith school — a school that provides a general education within a framework of a specific religious belief
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- fascinations — Plural form of fascination.
- 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.
- feet of clay — a weakness or hidden flaw in the character of a greatly admired or respected person: He was disillusioned to find that even Lincoln had feet of clay.
- felicitation — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
- felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
- ferrite core — a ferrite magnetic core used in a core memory.
- fianchettoed — Simple past tense and past participle of fianchetto.
- fiber optics — the branch of optics that deals with the transmission of light through transparent fibers, as in the form of pulses for the transmission of data or communications, or through fiber bundles for the transmission of images.
- fibre optics — optical fibre
- fibrinolytic — the disintegration or dissolution of fibrin, especially by enzymatic action.
- fibroblastic — a cell that contributes to the formation of connective tissue fibers.
- fictionalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of fictionalize.
- fictionality — State or quality of being fictional.
- fictionalize — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
- fictitiously — created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false: fictitious names.
- 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.
- field cornet — a commander of burgher troops called up in time of war or in an emergency, esp during the 19th century
- fifth column — a group of people who act traitorously and subversively out of a secret sympathy with an enemy of their country.
- fifty-second — next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
- film-coating — Film-coating is a process in which a tablet, capsule, or pellet is covered by a thin layer of film to protect it or make it easier to swallow.
- final notice — last warning before legal action
- fire control — technical and sometimes automatic supervision of artillery or naval gunfire on a target, as for range, elevation, etc.
- first cousin — cousin (def 1).
- first school — A first school is a school for children aged between five and eight or nine.
- fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
- fissicostate — having divided or separated ribs
- 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.
- float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
- flocculating — Present participle of flocculate.
- flocculation — to form into flocculent masses.
- floor pocket — one of several metal boxes placed backstage in the floor (floor pocket) or wall of a theater and containing jacks for electric cables used in lighting units.