13-letter words containing u, n, c, o, f
- multifunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- mummification — to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying.
- mundification — the act of cleansing a wound
- munroe effect — the reinforcement of shock waves in the concave, hollow end of a shaped charge, producing a greater resultant wave and concentrating the explosion along the axis of the charge.
- nectariferous — producing nectar.
- neo-confucian — of or relating to an eclectic philosophical movement of the 12th to the 16th centuries, incorporating Taoist and Buddhist elements with an adaptation of Confucianism.
- neuroeffector — The junction site, where a motor neuron releases a neurotransmitter to affect a target, that acts like an effector.
- neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
- nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
- non-fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- noncolourfast — (of a fabric) having a colour that tends to fade when washed or worn
- nonconiferous — Not coniferous.
- nonfunctional — Not having any particular purpose or function.
- noninfectious — (of a disease or disease-causing organism) not liable to be transmitted through the environment.
- not much of a — If you describe something as not much of a particular type of thing, you mean that it is small or of poor quality.
- nuclear force — strong interaction
- nullification — an act or instance of nullifying.
- ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
- office junior — a young person, esp a school-leaver, employed in an office for running errands and doing other minor jobs
- officiousness — objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
- on account of — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
- on course for — If you are on course for something, you are likely to achieve it.
- on sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
- onto function — Mathematics. a function from one set to a second set, the range of which is the entire second set.
- open fracture — compound fracture.
- out of action — If someone or something is out of action, they are injured or damaged and cannot work or be used.
- overfrequency — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
- perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- qualification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
- rann of kutch — an extensive salt waste in W central India, and S Pakistan: consists of the Great Rann in the north and the Little Rann in the southeast; seasonal alternation between marsh and desert; some saltworks. In 1968 an international tribunal awarded about 10 per cent of the border area to Pakistan. Area: 23 000 sq km (9000 sq miles)
- reconfiguring — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- reunification — the process of unifying or uniting; union: the unification of the 13 original colonies.
- russification — Russianize (defs 1, 2).
- scout uniform — the uniform worn by the Scouts
- self-conquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
- sensate focus — a series of touching exercises designed to increase intimacy in a sexual relationship
- soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
- solar furnace — a furnace using sunlight concentrated by concave mirrors as the direct source of heat.
- sound effects — any sounds artificially produced, reproduced from a recording, etc, to create a theatrical effect, such as the bringing together of two halves of a hollow coconut shell to simulate a horse's gallop; used in plays, films, etc
- south african — of southern Africa.
- step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
- sulfonic acid — any of a large group of organic compounds of the structure RSO 2 OH, which are strong acids that give neutral sodium salts: used in the synthesis of phenols, dyes, and other substances.
- surface noise — extraneous noise caused by physical wear or a physical flaw on a phonograph record or in a pickup system, rather than by a flaw in the equipment.
- think much of — to have a high opinion of
- thurification — the act of incense-burning