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13-letter words containing a, f, i, s

  • fossilisation — Alternative spelling of fossilization.
  • fossilization — Geology. to convert into a fossil; replace organic with mineral substances in the remains of an organism.
  • fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
  • fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
  • fractionalism — the state of being separate or inharmonious
  • fractionalist — an advocate or supporter of fractionalism
  • fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
  • franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • francis bacon — Francis (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans) 1561–1626, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.
  • francis crick — Francis Harry Compton, 1916–2004, English biophysicist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1962.
  • franz josef i — English name Francis Joseph I. 1830–1916, emperor of Austria (1848–1916) and king of Hungary (1867–1916)
  • fraser island — an island off the south-east coast of Queensland and the largest sand island in the world; contains rainforests, heathlands, and freshwater lakes; a national park (since 1976) and a World Heritage site (since 1992). Area: 1840 sq km (710 sq miles). Pop: 194 (2011)
  • free-standing — A free-standing piece of furniture or other object is not fixed to anything, or stands on its own away from other things.
  • freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
  • friar's chair — frailero.
  • frisches haff — a lagoon in N Poland. 52 miles (84 km) long; 4–12 miles (6–19 km) wide.
  • frise aileron — an aircraft wing control surface designed with its leading edge extending forward of its axis of rotation so that when the aileron's trailing edge is raised the leading edge extends below the bottom surface of the wing.
  • frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
  • fromage frais — Fromage frais is a thick, creamy dessert that is made from milk and often flavoured with fruit. A fromage frais is a small pot of fromage frais.
  • frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
  • frustratingly — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
  • fugaciousness — (obsolete) fugacity.
  • full laziness — (functional programming)   A transformation, described by Wadsworth in 1971, which ensures that subexpressions in a function body which do not depend on the function's arguments are only evaluated once. E.g. each time the function f x = x + sqrt 4 is applied, (sqrt 4) will be evaluated. Since (sqrt 4) does not depend on x, we could transform this to: f x = x + sqrt4 sqrt4 = sqrt 4 We have replaced the dynamically created (sqrt 4) with a single shared constant which, in a graph reduction system, will be evaluated the first time it is needed and then updated with its value. See also fully lazy lambda lifting, let floating.
  • functionalise — to make functional.
  • functionalism — (usually initial capital letter) Chiefly Architecture, Furniture. a design movement evolved from several previous movements or schools in Europe in the early 20th century, advocating the design of buildings, furnishings, etc., as direct fulfillments of material requirements, as for shelter, repose, or the serving of food, with the construction, materials, and purpose clearly expressed or at least not denied, and with aesthetic effect derived chiefly from proportions and finish, purely decorative effects being excluded or greatly subordinated. the doctrines and practices associated with this movement. Compare rationalism (def 4).
  • functionalist — a person who advocates, or works according to, the principles of functionalism.
  • functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
  • furaciousness — the quality of being furacious or thievish
  • fusarium wilt — a disease of plants, characterized by damping-off, wilting, and a brown dry rot, caused by fungi of the genus Fusarium.
  • fusible metal — any of various alloys, as of bismuth, lead, and tin, that melt at temperatures as low as 160°F (70°C), making them useful in various safety devices.
  • futilitarians — Plural form of futilitarian.
  • gallimaufries — Plural form of gallimaufry.
  • game of skill — a game in which the outcome is determined by skill rather than by chance, as chess.
  • garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
  • garrison life — the life of troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
  • giant pigfish — a wrass, Achoerodus gouldii, that occurs around the Great Barrier Reef
  • grain of salt — salt crystal
  • granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
  • gulf of sidra — a wide inlet of the Mediterranean on the N coast of Libya
  • half-digested — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
  • half-finished — ended or completed.
  • half-scottish — Also, Scots. of or relating to Scotland, its people, or their language.
  • half-silvered — (of a mirror) having an incomplete reflective coating, so that half the incident light is reflected and half transmitted: used in optical instruments and two-way mirrors
  • handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • hardship fund — funding offered or applied for due to financial difficulties
  • hash function — (programming)   A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
  • hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
  • ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
  • if you ask me — You can say 'if you ask me' to emphasize that you are stating your personal opinion.
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