13-letter words containing o, l, f, a, c
- coreferential — (of more than one linguistic expression) designating the same individual or class
- cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
- corollifloral — relating to, or belonging to, a subclass of plants known as Corolliflorae, which have gamopetalous corolla and stamens attached to the corolla
- county family — an old family that has lived in a particular county for several generations
- cup of elijah — Elijah's cup.
- cut-off valve — a valve that terminates the flow of fluid in a system
- cycloparaffin — any of a series of saturated alicyclic hydrocarbons of the general formula CnH2n, having a closed chain of three or more carbon atoms, as cyclohexane
- disfunctional — dysfunction.
- dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- efficaciously — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
- factionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of factionalize.
- factory floor — The factory floor refers to the workers in a factory, as opposed to the managers. It can also refer to the area where they work.
- facts of life — any aspect of human existence that must be acknowledged or regarded as unalterable: Old age is a fact of life.
- faculty board — the governing body of a faculty
- fait accompli — an accomplished fact; a thing already done: The enemy's defeat was a fait accompli long before the formal surrender.
- falcon-gentle — the female peregrine falcon.
- false colours — a flag to which one is not entitled, flown esp in order to deceive
- false economy — an attempt to save money which actually leads to greater expense
- falsification — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- family doctor — a general practitioner.
- fasciculation — a fascicular condition.
- 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.
- fatty alcohol — any of several long-chain alcohols from animals or plants, analogous to the fatty acids, used in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, detergents, plastics, etc.
- federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
- feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
- felicitations — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
- female condom — a type of condom used by women and inserted into the vagina
- fibromuscular — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to both fibrous and muscular tissue.
- fibrovascular — composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants: a fibrovascular bundle.
- 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.
- filter factor — a number indicating the increased exposure that a particular film should receive when a photograph is taken using a particular filter.
- firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
- flag of truce — a white flag displayed as an invitation to the enemy to confer, or carried as a sign of peaceful intention by one sent to deal with the enemy.
- flash fiction — very short works of fiction that are typically no longer than a couple of pages and may be as short as one paragraph.
- float chamber — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
- floatcut file — file with rows of parallel teeth
- floating dock — a submersible, floating structure used as a dry dock, having a floor that is submerged, slipped under a floating vessel, and then raised so as to raise the vessel entirely out of the water.
- floccillation — a delirious picking of the bedclothes by the patient, as in certain fevers.
- floor furnace — a small self-contained furnace placed just below the floor of the space to be heated.
- floricultural — Of or pertaining to floriculture.
- floristically — In a floristic manner.
- flow cleavage — cleavage resulting from the parallel alignment of the mineral constituents of a rock when in a plastic condition.
- fluctuational — Of, pertaining to, or resulting from fluctuation(s).
- fluoroacetate — a toxic chemical compound, C2H2FNaO2, occurring naturally in certain plants, and commonly used as rat poison
- fluorocarbons — Plural form of fluorocarbon.
- fluorographic — of or pertaining to fluorography
- fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
- flying boxcar — a large airplane designed to carry cargo.