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13-letter words containing a, f, r

  • frozen assets — business assets that are not convertible into cash, as by government direction or business conditions
  • frozen wastes — vast parts of land covered by snow and ice and usually uninhabited by people
  • fruit farming — the practice of growing or farming fruit
  • fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
  • frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
  • 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.
  • fuel air bomb — a type of bomb that spreads a cloud of gas, which is then detonated, over the target area, causing extensive destruction
  • fuerteventura — a Spanish island off the NW coast of Africa, one of the Canary Islands. 641 sq. mi. (1660 sq. km).
  • fulani empire — a powerful W African Muslim state that flourished in the 19th century in the area of present-day Nigeria.
  • fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
  • full-flavored — Full-flavored food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
  • full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
  • fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
  • funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
  • functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
  • funeral march — march played for funeral processions
  • furaciousness — the quality of being furacious or thievish
  • furniture van — a van designed to move the furniture of a house, office, etc, to another place
  • fusarium wilt — a disease of plants, characterized by damping-off, wilting, and a brown dry rot, caused by fungi of the genus Fusarium.
  • futilitarians — Plural form of futilitarian.
  • future farmer — a member of the Future Farmers of America.
  • futurity race — a race for two-year-old horses in which the entries are selected before birth
  • futurological — Pertaining to futurology.
  • gabriel fauré — Gabriel Urbain [ga-bree-el oor-ban] /ga briˈɛl urˈbɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1845–1924, French composer.
  • gallimaufries — Plural form of gallimaufry.
  • gallows frame — headframe.
  • garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
  • garrison life — the life of troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
  • gelandelaufer — a participant in cross-country skiing.
  • gene transfer — Biotechnology. the insertion of copies of a gene into living cells in order to induce synthesis of the gene's product: the desired gene may be microinjected directly into the cell or it may be inserted into the core of a virus by gene splicing and the virus allowed to infect the cell for replication of the gene in the cell's DNA.
  • general staff — a group of officers who are without command and whose duty is to assist high commanders in planning and carrying out orders in peace and war.
  • german africa — the former German colonies in Africa, comprising German East Africa, German Southwest Africa, Cameroons, and Togoland.
  • ginger family — the plant family Zingiberaceae, characterized by tropical, often aromatic herbaceous plants having rhizomes, long sheathing leaves, and clusters of tubular flowers, and including cardamon, ginger, and turmeric.
  • glacial drift — material, as gravel, sand, or clay, transported and deposited by a glacier or by glacial meltwater.
  • glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
  • glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
  • go to bat for — Sports. the wooden club used in certain games, as baseball and cricket, to strike the ball. a racket, especially one used in badminton or table tennis. a whip used by a jockey. the act of using a club or racket in a game. the right or turn to use a club or racket.
  • graffiti-bomb — Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
  • grain of salt — salt crystal
  • grain refiner — any chemical added to a molten metal or alloy to check grain growth.
  • grandfathered — Simple past tense and past participle of grandfather.
  • grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
  • granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
  • gratification — the state of being gratified; great satisfaction.
  • gravity fault — a fault along an inclined plane in which the upper side or hanging wall appears to have moved downward with respect to the lower side or footwall (opposed to reverse fault).
  • growth factor — any of various proteins that promote the growth, organization, and maintenance of cells and tissues.
  • gulf of saros — an inlet of the Aegean in NW Turkey, north of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Length: 59 km (37 miles). Width: 35 km (22 miles)
  • gulf of sidra — a wide inlet of the Mediterranean on the N coast of Libya
  • gulf-of-saros — Gulf of, an inlet of the Aegean, N of the Gallipoli Peninsula. 37 miles (60 km) long; 22 miles (35 km) wide.
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