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13-letter words containing a, n, f, r

  • freight plane — an aeroplane used to transport goods
  • freight train — a train of freight cars.
  • french canada — the areas of Canada, esp in the province of Quebec, where French Canadians predominate
  • french guiana — an overseas department of France, on the NE coast of South America: formerly a French colony. 35,135 sq. mi. (91,000 sq. km). Capital: Cayenne.
  • french guinea — former name of Guinea.
  • french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
  • frequentation — the practice of frequenting; habit of visiting often.
  • frequentative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing repetition of an action.
  • freshman week — a week at the beginning of the school year with a program planned to orient entering students, especially at a college.
  • 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.
  • friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
  • friction tape — a cloth or plastic adhesive tape, containing a moisture-resistant substance, used especially to insulate and protect electrical wires and conductors.
  • fridge magnet — a small flat decorative object with a magnet on its back which is used to attach it to the front door of a fridge or other domestic appliance
  • frighten away — cause sb/sth to run away
  • 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.
  • front-loading — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
  • frontage road — a local road that runs parallel to an expressway, providing access to roadside stores and businesses; a service road.
  • frontal gyrus — any of several convolutions on the outer surface of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum.
  • frontopalatal — articulated with the portion of the tongue that is just behind the tip touching or near the alveolar ridge and hard palate, as ( (ʃ) ; sh) ) and (; ʒ) ; zh) )
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • futilitarians — Plural form of futilitarian.
  • 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.
  • glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
  • 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.
  • habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
  • half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
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