13-letter words containing fac
- olfactometers — Plural form of olfactometer.
- olfactometric — Of or pertaining to olfactometry.
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- remanufacture — to refurbish (a used product) by renovating and reassembling its components: to remanufacture a vacuum cleaner.
- rhesus factor — Rh factor.
- ruled surface — a surface that can be generated by a straight line, as a cylinder or cone.
- safety factor — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
- self-effacing — the act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility.
- straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
- 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.
- surface plate — Machinery. a flat plate used by machinists for testing surfaces that are to be made perfectly flat.
- surface water — water found on the surface of the earth (not underground or in the atmosphere), for example in rivers, seas, lakes, reservoirs, etc
- surface yeast — yeast that rises to the surface as froth during fermentation.
- surface-layer — the thin layer of air adjacent to the earth's surface, usually considered to be less than 300 feet (91 meters) high.
- telefacsimile — facsimile (def 2).
- the fact that — You use the fact that after some verbs or prepositions, especially in expressions such as in view of the fact that, apart from the fact that, and despite the fact that, to link the verb or preposition with a clause.
- to one's face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- unfacilitated — to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
- venire facias — a writ directing the appropriate official to summon a jury.