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13-letter words containing s, c, f

  • 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.
  • for chrissake — for Christ's sake
  • for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
  • force a smile — to make oneself smile
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • foreconscious — the preconscious.
  • formicivorous — ant-eating.
  • formularistic — relating to formularization
  • fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
  • fractionalism — the state of being separate or inharmonious
  • fractionalist — an advocate or supporter of fractionalism
  • fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
  • fractocumulus — low ragged slightly bulbous cloud, often appearing below nimbostratus clouds during rain
  • fractostratus — low ragged layered cloud often appearing below nimbostratus clouds during rain
  • franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • francis bacon — Francis (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans) 1561–1626, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.
  • francis crick — Francis Harry Compton, 1916–2004, English biophysicist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1962.
  • french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
  • french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
  • french system — a method of spinning in which fibers of extremely short-staple wool are not twisted before being spun.
  • french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
  • friar's chair — frailero.
  • frisches haff — a lagoon in N Poland. 52 miles (84 km) long; 4–12 miles (6–19 km) wide.
  • frontispieces — Plural form of frontispiece.
  • frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
  • fugaciousness — (obsolete) fugacity.
  • full sentence — any sentence the form of which exemplifies the most frequently used structural pattern of a particular language, as, in English, any sentence that contains a subject and a predicate; a sentence from which elliptical sentences may be derived by grammatical transformations.
  • 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.
  • functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
  • furaciousness — the quality of being furacious or thievish
  • genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
  • geoscientific — relating to geoscience
  • half-scottish — Also, Scots. of or relating to Scotland, its people, or their language.
  • handcraftsman — A handicraftsman.
  • handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • 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.
  • henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
  • home comforts — things in a house that make it comfortable
  • host-specific — capable of living solely on or in one species of host, as a parasite that infests only chickens.
  • house officer — a doctor who is the most junior member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually resident in the hospital
  • hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
  • hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
  • ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
  • impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
  • imperfections — A fault, blemish, or undesirable feature.
  • imperfectives — Plural form of imperfective.
  • imperfectness — of, relating to, or characterized by defects or weaknesses: imperfect vision.
  • in one's face — directly opposite or against one
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