13-letter words containing r, c, n
- euler-chelpin — Hans (Karl August) von. 1873–1964, Swedish biochemist, born in Germany: shared the Nobel prize for chemistry (1929) with Sir Arthur Harden for their work on enzymes: father of Ulf von Euler
- eurocommunism — the policies, doctrines, and practices of Communist Parties in Western Europe in the 1970s and 1980s, esp those rejecting democratic centralism and favouring nonalignment with the Soviet Union and China
- ex-serviceman — An ex-serviceman is a man who used to be in a country's army, navy, or air force.
- exacerbations — Plural form of exacerbation.
- exchange rate — relative value of currency
- excoriatingly — So as to excoriate.
- excortication — the act of stripping off the outer layer, esp the bark from a tree
- excrescential — Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence.
- excursionists — Plural form of excursionist.
- excursiveness — The quality of being discursive.
- exotic dancer — a striptease dancer or belly dancer
- expectorating — Present participle of expectorate.
- expectoration — The action of expectorating, of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs by coughing, hawking, or spitting.
- extended care — nursing care provided for a limited time after a hospital stay, as in a special facility
- exteroception — The perception of environmental stimuli acting on the body.
- extractor fan — a fan used in kitchens, bathrooms, workshops, etc, to remove stale air or fumes
- extravagances — Plural form of extravagance.
- extrinsically — In an extrinsic manner.
- extrinsicness — The quality or state of being extrinsic.
- fabric ribbon — a typewriter ribbon made of inked material
- face-centered — (of a crystal structure) having lattice points on the faces of the unit cells.
- factorisation — Alternative spelling of factorization.
- factorization — Mathematics. to resolve into factors.
- fantasmagoric — phantasmagoria.
- fast-tracking — the practice of speeding up the progress of a project or person
- 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.
- fault current — A fault current is a current that results from a fault.
- febrifacients — Plural form of febrifacient.
- feinschmecker — gourmet.
- ferociousness — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- ferricyanogen — (chemistry) A hexavalent radical, Fe2(CN)12, a compound of cyanogen and iron in the ferric state.
- ferrimagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as a ferrite, in which the magnetic moments of some neighboring atoms point in opposite directions, with a net magnetization still resulting because of differences in magnitudes of the opposite moments.
- ferroconcrete — reinforced concrete.
- ferrocyanogen — a ferrocyanide radical
- ferromagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
- ferry company — a company that operates a ferry or ferries
- festschriften — Plural form of festschrift.
- fibre channel — (storage, networking, communications) An ANSI standard originally intended for high-speed SANs connecting servers, disc arrays, and backup devices, also later adapted to form the physical layer of Gigabit Ethernet. Development work on Fibre channel started in 1988 and it was approved by the ANSI standards committee in 1994, running at 100Mb/s. More recent innovations have seen the speed of Fibre Channel SANs increase to 10Gb/s. Several topologies are possible with Fibre Channel, the most popular being a number of devices attached to one (or two, for redundancy) central Fibre Channel switches, creating a reliable infrastructure that allows servers to share storage arrays or tape libraries. One common use of Fibre Channel SANs is for high availability databaseq clusters where two servers are connected to one highly reliable RAID array. Should one server fail, the other server can mount the array itself and continue operations with minimal downtime and loss of data. Other advanced features include the ability to have servers and hard drives seperated by hundreds of miles or to rapidly mirror data between servers and hard drives, perhaps in seperate geographic locations.
- final curtain — end of a theatre performance
- fingerpicking — Present participle of fingerpick.
- finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
- fire watching — the job of watching for fires, especially those caused by aerial bombardment
- firnification — the process by which snow changes into névé.
- flood control — the act or technique of controlling river flow with dams, dikes, artificial channels, etc., so as to minimize the occurrence of floods.
- floor cushion — a cushion placed on the floor of a room for people to sit on
- floor furnace — a small self-contained furnace placed just below the floor of the space to be heated.
- floorcovering — A covering for a floor.
- fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
- fluorocarbons — Plural form of fluorocarbon.
- fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.