13-letter words containing a, s, f
- beautifulness — having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
- beneficiary's — a person or group that receives benefits, profits, or advantages.
- blast furnace — A blast furnace is a large structure in which iron ore is heated under pressure so that it melts and the pure iron metal separates out and can be collected.
- boarding fees — fees paid for boarding at a school
- bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
- brass foundry — a foundry that makes things from brass
- brassfounding — the practice of making things from brass
- breakfast bar — a counter in a kitchen where people can sit and have breakfast
- breakfast set — a set of plates, bowls, eggcups, etc, specially designed to be used at breakfast
- brief against — If someone, especially a politician, briefs against another person, he or she tries to harm the other person's reputation by saying something unfavourable about them.
- buffalo chips — the dried dung of buffalo used as fuel, especially by early settlers on the western plains.
- buffalo grass — a short grass, Buchloë dactyloides, growing on the dry plains of the central US
- buffalo wings — spicy fried segments of chicken wings, usually served with celery sticks and a sauce of blue cheese
- cafe curtains — short, straight curtains, esp. for covering the lower part of a window, hung from a rod by means of sliding rings
- calcariferous — having a spur or spurs
- calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
- candlesnuffer — an implement, or person, that extinguishes candle flames
- cantus firmus — an existing melody used as the basis for a new polyphonic composition
- cape crawfish — an edible South African spiny lobster, Jasus lalandii.
- carbon offset — a compensatory measure made by an individual or company for carbon emissions, usually through sponsoring activities or projects which increase carbon dioxide absorption, such as tree planting
- carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
- cardinal fish — a small brightly coloured fish found in shallow tropical seas, of the family Apogonidae, the male of which often broods eggs in its mouth
- carrickfergus — a town in E Northern Ireland, in Carrickfergus district, Co Antrim; historic settlement of Scottish Protestants on Belfast Lough; Norman castle. Pop: 27 201 (2001)
- cashew family — the plant family Anacardiaceae, typified by trees, shrubs, or vines having resinous and sometimes poisonous juice, alternate leaves, small flowers, and a nut or fleshy fruit, and including the cashew, mango, pistachio, poison ivy, and sumac.
- casual friday — In some companies, employees are allowed to wear clothes that are more informal than usual on a Friday. This day is known as a casual Friday.
- catch oneself — to hold oneself back abruptly from saying or doing something
- caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
- cause offence — If you cause offence or give offence to someone, you say or do something rude which upsets or embarrasses them.
- cellar fungus — a fungus, Coniophora puteana, that causes dry rot in timber.
- central falls — a city in NE Rhode Island.
- changefulness — Propensity to change.
- charles fries — Charles Carpenter, 1887–1967, U.S. linguist.
- chieftainship — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
- claims farmer — a middleman who encourages people to make compensation claims and who then sells these claims on to a lawyer
- class warfare — conflict, tension between social classes
- class-warfare — Also called class conflict. conflict between different classes in a community resulting from different social or economic positions and reflecting opposed interests.
- classified ad — Classified ads or classified advertisements are small advertisements in a newspaper or magazine. They are usually from a person or small company.
- cliff swallow — an American swallow, Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, that has a square-tipped tail and builds nests of mud on cliffs, walls, etc
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- colorfastness — The characteristic of being colorfast.
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- confederacies — Plural form of confederacy.
- confessionals — Plural form of confessional.
- confessionary — of or relating to confession, especially auricular confession of sins.
- confirmations — Plural form of confirmation.
- confiscatable — confiscable
- conformations — Plural form of conformation.
- confusticated — Simple past tense and past participle of confusticate.
- conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
- copper-fasten — to make (a bargain or agreement) binding