12-letter words containing fec
- affectations — Plural form of affectation.
- affectedness — assumed artificially; unnatural; feigned: affected sophistication; an affected British accent.
- affectionado — Misspelling of aficionado.
- affectionate — If you are affectionate, you show your love or fondness for another person in the way that you behave towards them.
- after-effect — The after-effects of an event, experience, or substance are the conditions which result from it.
- aftereffects — Plural form of aftereffect.
- auger effect — the spontaneous emission of an electron instead of a photon by an excited ion as a result of a vacancy being filled in an inner electron shell
- birth defect — an inherited disease or condition that a baby is born with
- blast effect — the damage caused by the force of an explosive blast
- confectioner — A confectioner is a person whose job is making or selling sweets and chocolates.
- defectionist — a person who is in favour of lapsing, backsliding, or defection
- disaffecting — Present participle of disaffect.
- disaffection — the absence or alienation of affection or goodwill; estrangement; disloyalty: Disaffection often leads to outright treason.
- disinfectant — any chemical agent used chiefly on inanimate objects to destroy or inhibit the growth of harmful organisms.
- disinfecting — Present participle of disinfect.
- disinfection — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
- effectiveley — Misspelling of effectively.
- effectuality — producing or capable of producing an intended effect; adequate.
- effectuating — Present participle of effectuate.
- effectuation — to bring about; effect.
- eliza effect — (jargon) /e-li:'z* *-fekt'/ (From ELIZA) The tendency of humans to attach associations to terms from prior experience. For example, there is nothing magic about the symbol "+" that makes it well-suited to indicate addition; it's just that people associate it with addition. Using "+" or "plus" to mean addition in a computer language is taking advantage of the ELIZA effect. The ELIZA effect is a Good Thing when writing a programming language, but it can blind you to serious shortcomings when analysing an Artificial Intelligence system. Compare ad-hockery; see also AI-complete.
- end effector — The end effector of an actuator is the part that comes into contact with the object being moved or controlled.
- fecklessness — The state of being feckless.
- field-effect — designating or of an electronic component or device, esp. a transistor, controlled by an external electric field
- hertz effect — the effect of ultraviolet radiation in lowering the sparking voltage across a spark gap: an example of photoelectric effect.
- ill-affected — not well disposed; disaffected
- imperfection — an imperfect detail; flaw: a law full of imperfections.
- imperfective — noting an aspect of the verb, as in Russian, that indicates incompleteness of the action or state at a temporal point of reference.
- in-effective — not effective; not producing results; ineffectual: ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
- indefectible — not defectible; not liable to defect or failure.
- indefectibly — In an indefectible manner.
- ineffectible — Ineffectual; impracticable.
- infectiously — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- joule effect — the generation of heat by the passage of electricity through a resistance.
- kylie effect — the increased awareness of breast cancer caused by the publicity surrounding its diagnosis in Kylie Minogue, born 1968, Australian singer and actress
- moire effect — the appearance, when two regularly spaced sets of lines are superimposed, of a new set of lines (moiré pattern) passing through the points where the original lines cross at small angles.
- nonaffective — of, caused by, or expressing emotion or feeling; emotional.
- noneffective — not effective.
- notch effect — the increase in stress in an area of a component near a crack, depression, etc, or a change in section, such as a sharp angle: can be enough to cause failure of the component although the calculated average stress may be quite safe
- note-perfect — (of a singer or musician) able to sing or play without making any errors
- past perfect — pluperfect.
- perfect game — a baseball game in which the same player pitches throughout the full game without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base by a base hit, base on balls, error, or any other means. Compare no-hitter.
- perfect ream — a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- perfect year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
- perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
- perfectively — in a perfective manner; thoroughly
- perfectivity — the state or quality of being (a) perfective
- perfectivize — to make perfective.
- pinch effect — the tendency of an electric conductor or stream of charged particles to constrict, caused by the action of a magnetic field that is produced by a flow of electricity.
- point defect — an imperfection in a crystal's lattice structure, either a missing atom or ion creating a vacancy in the lattice or an extra atom or ion between two normal lattice points creating an interstitial.
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