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12-letter words containing a, f, r, c

  • facial scrub — a beauty product or treatment which cleanses and exfoliates the skin of the face
  • facilitators — Plural form of facilitator.
  • facilitatory — That serves to facilitate.
  • factor group — quotient group.
  • factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
  • factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
  • factory acts — laws relating to factories
  • factory farm — a farm in which animals are bred and fattened using modern industrial methods
  • factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
  • factory work — work in a factory
  • fairchild f8 — (processor)   An 8-bit microprocessor. The processor itself had no address bus - program and data memory access were contained in separate units, which reduced the number of pins and the associated cost. It also featured 64 registers, accessed by the ISAR register in cells (register windows) of eight, which meant external RAM wasn't always needed for small applications. In addition, the 2-chip processor didn't need support chips, unlike others which needed seven or more. The F8 inspired other similar CPUs, such as the Intel 8048. The use of the ISAR register allowed a subroutine to be entered without saving a bunch of registers, speeding execution - the ISAR would just be changed. Special purpose registers were stored in the second cell (regs 9-15), and the first eight registers were accessed directly. The windowing concept was useful, but only the register pointed to by the ISAR could be accessed - to access other registers the ISAR was incremented or decremented through the window.
  • fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
  • false cirrus — a type of thick cirrus cloud spreading from the top of a cumulonimbus cloud
  • false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
  • family court — court of domestic relations.
  • far-reaching — extending far in influence, effect, etc.: the far-reaching effect of his speech.
  • faraday cage — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
  • farcicalness — The property of being farcical.
  • farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
  • fascia-board — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
  • fascicularly — in a fascicular manner
  • fast reactor — a nuclear reactor using little or no moderator, fission being caused by fast neutrons
  • fast-tracker — of or relating to the fast track.
  • featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
  • featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
  • febrifacient — producing fever.
  • federal case — a matter that falls within the jurisdiction of a federal court or a federal law-enforcement agency.
  • federalistic — an advocate of federalism.
  • fence lizard — either of two spiny lizards, Sceloporus undulatus and S. occidentalis, of the U.S. and northern Mexico, often seen on fences.
  • fer de lance — a large pit viper, Bothrops atrox, of tropical America.
  • fer-de-lance — a large pit viper, Bothrops atrox, of tropical America.
  • ferricyanide — a salt of ferricyanic acid, as potassium ferricyanide, K 3 Fe(CN) 6 .
  • ferrocyanide — a salt of ferrocyanic acid, as potassium ferrocyanide, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 .
  • ferulic acid — a compound, C 10 H 10 O 4 , found in small amounts in lants, that occurs in two isomers, one a yellow oily liquid and the other crystalline.
  • feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
  • fibroblastic — a cell that contributes to the formation of connective tissue fibers.
  • fibrosarcoma — a sarcoma derived from fibroblast cells, often able to generate collagen.
  • fiddler crab — any small, burrowing crab of the genus Uca, characterized by one greatly enlarged claw in the male.
  • fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
  • fieri facias — a writ commanding a sheriff to levy and sell as much of a debtor's property as is necessary to satisfy a creditor's claim against the debtor. Abbreviation: FI. FA., fi. fa.
  • fire company — a company of firefighters.
  • fire curtain — safety curtain.
  • fire watcher — a person who watches for fires, esp those caused by aerial bombardment
  • firecrackers — Plural form of firecracker.
  • fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
  • fixed charge — an expense that cannot be modified.
  • flag carrier — an airline that is locally registered in a particular country
  • flag officer — a naval officer above the rank of captain, as a fleet admiral, admiral, vice-admiral, rear admiral, or commodore, who is entitled to display a flag indicating his or her rank.
  • flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
  • flea-flicker — a deceptive offensive play in which the ball is passed or transferred laterally before or after a forward pass.
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