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

  • bag of waters — a fluid-filled membranous sac in the pregnant uterus that encloses and cushions the fetus, normally breaking at or just before the time of birth; the amnion.
  • bank transfer — a payment between two bank accounts
  • baritone clef — an F clef locating F below middle C on the third line of the staff.
  • basic fortran — (language)   A subset of Fortran.
  • basket flower — a composite plant, Centaurea americana, of central U.S. to Mexico, having raylike heads of tubular rose-colored flowers, each surrounded by a whorl of bracts making the flower head appear as if it is set in a basket.
  • bat-eared fox — a fox, Vulpes chama, inhabiting dry areas of southern Africa and having large pointed ears, silvery gray coat, and a bushy tail with a black tip.
  • battered wife — See under battered woman syndrome.
  • beast of prey — any animal that hunts other animals for food
  • benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
  • biotic factor — a living thing, as an animal or plant, that influences or affects an ecosystem: How do humans affect other biotic factors? Weather is not a biotic factor because it is not alive.
  • blanketflower — a hardy flowering plant, Gaillardia aristata, that grows in the US
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • buoyant force — the law that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force (buoyant force) equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.
  • butterfly pea — any of several leguminous plants of the genus Clitoria, as C. mariana, of North America, having pale-blue flowers.
  • cafe curtains — short, straight curtains, esp. for covering the lower part of a window, hung from a rod by means of sliding rings
  • calorifacient — (of foods) producing heat.
  • camp-drafting — a competitive test, esp at an agricultural show, of horsemen's skill in drafting cattle
  • cantus firmus — an existing melody used as the basis for a new polyphonic composition
  • cape-flattery — Cape, a cape in NW Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula, at the entrance to Juan de Fuca Strait.
  • caprification — a method of pollinating the edible fig by hanging branches of caprifig flowers in edible fig trees. Parasitic wasps in the caprifig flowers transfer pollen to the edible fig flowers
  • 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
  • carnification — the conversion of tissue into flesh or a fleshlike substance, as of lung tissue into fibrous tissue as a result of pneumonia.
  • carry too far — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
  • caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
  • central falls — a city in NE Rhode Island.
  • centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
  • certification — a document attesting the truth of a fact or statement
  • certificatory — Serving to certify something.
  • chip graffiti — microchip art
  • church father — any of the writers on Christian doctrine of the pre-Scholastic period
  • citation form — the spoken form a word has when produced in isolation, such as when cited for purposes of illustration, as distinguished from the form it would have when produced in the normal stream of speech.
  • clarification — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
  • clarificatory — Of or pertaining to clarification.
  • cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
  • colorfastness — The characteristic of being colorfast.
  • comfort woman — a girl or woman forced into prostitution by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
  • comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
  • common factor — a number or quantity that is a factor of each member of a group of numbers or quantities
  • common rafter — a rafter having no function other than to bear roofing.
  • confabulatory — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
  • confarreation — (in ancient Rome) the highest form of marriage, which was marked by the offering of a cake to Jupiter
  • confectionary — a place where confections are kept or made
  • confederating — Present participle of confederate.
  • confederation — A confederation is an organization or group consisting of smaller groups or states, especially one that exists for business or political purposes.
  • confederative — of confederates or a confederation
  • configurating — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
  • configuration — A configuration is an arrangement of a group of things.
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