12-letter words containing act
- fact-finding — a person who searches impartially for the facts or actualities of a subject or situation, especially one appointed to conduct an official investigation, as in a labor-management conflict.
- factionalism — of a faction or factions.
- factionalist — of a faction or factions.
- factionalize — (especially of a political party or other organized group) split or divide into factions.
- factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- factitiously — In a factitious manner.
- 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
- factualities — of or relating to facts; concerning facts: factual accuracy.
- fast reactor — a nuclear reactor using little or no moderator, fission being caused by fast neutrons
- fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
- fluidextract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
- fractionally — pertaining to fractions; comprising a part or the parts of a unit; constituting a fraction: fractional numbers.
- fractionated — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionate.
- fractionator — Chemistry. an apparatus for fractional distillation. Compare cracker (def 10).
- fractography — the study of fractures or cracks in a material, esp metal, in order to predict or identify the cause of a failure in a structure
- fudge factor — any variable component added to an experiment, plan, or the like that can be manipulated to allow leeway for error.
- galactagogue — A food or drug that promotes or increases the flow of a mother’s milk.
- galactometer — a lactometer.
- galactophore — a galactophorous duct.
- galactorrhea — an abnormally abundant flow of milk in a lactating woman.
- galactoscope — a lactoscope.
- galactosemia — an inherited disorder characterized by the inability to metabolize galactose and requiring a galactose-free diet to avoid consequent mental retardation and eye, spleen, and liver abnormalities.
- galactosides — Plural form of galactoside.
- gut reaction — instinctive response
- halobacteria — Plural form of halobacterium.
- helicobacter — Any member of the Helicobacter bacteria.
- heterodactyl — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
- heterotactic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterotaxis.
- hexadactylic — having six fingers or toes
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hyperdactyly — the presence of extra fingers or toes.
- hyperreactor — a person who behaves in a hyperreactive manner
- in actuality — actually, in fact, in reality
- in character — the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
- inactivating — Present participle of inactivate.
- inactivation — The process of rendering something inactive.
- inexactitude — the quality or state of being inexact or inaccurate; inexactness.
- interactable — (of an object) able to be interacted with.
- interactants — a person or thing that interacts.
- interactions — Plural form of interaction.
- isotacticity — (of a polymer) having the same configuration at successive, regularly spaced positions along the chain. See also configuration (def 4).
- jactitations — Plural form of jactitation.
- juggling act — If you say that a situation is a juggling act, you mean that someone is trying to do two or more things at once, and that they are finding it difficult to do those things properly.
- juristic act — a proceeding designed to have a legal effect