13-letter words containing a, s, f
- offhandedness — cavalierly, curtly, or brusquely: to reply offhand.
- old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
- olfactologist — a medical specialist in the sense of smell
- olfactometers — Plural form of olfactometer.
- on sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
- orate fratres — the call to prayer, addressed by the celebrant of the Mass to the people just before the Secret.
- ossifications — Plural form of ossification.
- out of season — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- out of square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- out-of-stater — a visitor from another state of the U.S.: Many out-of-staters come to our summer music festival.
- pact of steel — a military alliance concluded between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on May 22, 1939, committing each to assist the other in the event of war with another power and pledging that neither would seek a separate peace or armistice.
- paper profits — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
- paradise fish — any small freshwater fish of the genus Macropodus, of southeastern Asia, often kept in aquariums.
- parasoft corp — Distributors of the message passing system Express.
- passion fruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
- paterfamilias — the male head of a household or family, usually the father.
- perfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which sexual spores are formed, as the asci in the sexual stage of the ascomycete.
- personal foul — a foul called in certain games, as basketball or football, for illegal body contact or rough, unsportsmanlike play.
- physical file — (file system) A low-level view of the physical characteristics of a file, such as its location on a disk or its physical structure, for example, whether indexed or sequential.
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- platiniferous — platinum-bearing
- point of sale — the store, dealer, or other retail outlet where an item is sold: from manufacturer to point-of-sale.
- point-of-sale — the store, dealer, or other retail outlet where an item is sold: from manufacturer to point-of-sale.
- pontificators — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- port of spain — (used with a plural verb) two islands in the N Atlantic Ocean, off the NE coast of Venezuela.
- port-of-spain — (used with a plural verb) two islands in the N Atlantic Ocean, off the NE coast of Venezuela.
- post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- prefix syntax — prefix notation
- presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
- press of sail — as much sail as the wind or other conditions will permit a ship to carry.
- professoriate — a group of professors.
- proposal form — a form filled out by a person applying for insurance
- pull a fastie — to play a sly trick
- quadrifarious — having four parts
- qualifiedness — The property of being qualified (restricted or limited by conditions).
- quarterfinals — Plural form of quarterfinal.
- quartziferous — consisting of or containing quartz: quartziferous rock.
- quasi-federal — pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in federal government; federal system.
- rabbit's foot — the foot of a rabbit, especially the left hind foot carried as a good-luck charm.
- ramifications — the act or process of ramifying.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- reforestation — to replant trees on (land denuded by cutting or fire).
- refried beans — fried mashed beans
- refuse a card — If you refuse a card, you do not allow someone's credit card to be used to pay a bill.
- regardless of — in spite of
- reinfestation — the act of infesting; state of being infested.
- reversal film — film developed by the reversal process.