13-letter words containing e, f, i
- potato famine — a severe shortage of food caused by the failure of the potato crop
- power failure — electricity outage
- preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- predefinition — the process or action of defining in advance; an advance definition
- prefabricated — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- prefabricator — someone who or an organization that prefabricates
- preferability — more desirable.
- preferred lie — a nearby position for a ball preferable to that where it actually landed and to which repositioning is sometimes allowed without loss of a stroke or strokes to the player.
- prefiguration — the act of prefiguring.
- prefigurement — to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
- prefix syntax — prefix notation
- prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
- prescientific — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
- press of sail — as much sail as the wind or other conditions will permit a ship to carry.
- press officer — A press officer is a person who is employed by an organization to give information about that organization to the press.
- prize fighter — A prize fighter is a boxer who fights to win money.
- profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
- professoriate — a group of professors.
- professorship — the office or post of a professor.
- profit center — a segment of a business organization that has a profitable base independent of the business as a whole.
- profit centre — a unit or department of a company that is responsible for its costs and its profits
- profit motive — the desire for profit that motivates one to engage in business ventures.
- proliferation — the growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts.
- proliferously — by proliferation
- pruning knife — a knife used for pruning
- public office — position in government
- pull a fastie — to play a sly trick
- quadrifoliate — (botany) Having four leaves or leaflets.
- qualificative — That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts; a qualifying term or statement.
- qualifiedness — The property of being qualified (restricted or limited by conditions).
- quarter-final — A quarter-final is one of the four matches in a competition which decides which four players or teams will compete in the semi-final.
- 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.
- raffle ticket — a ticket sold in a raffle, representing a chance to win a prize
- rank and file — the members of a group or organization apart from its leaders or officers.
- rat-tail file — a long, narrow file having a circular cross section.
- ratbite fever — either of two relapsing febrile diseases, widely distributed geographically, caused by infection with Streptobacillus moniliformis or Spirillum minor and transmitted by rats.
- re-forwarding — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- reaffirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
- reconfiguring — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- rectification — the act of rectifying, or the fact of being rectified.
- refamiliarize — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- referentially — having reference: referential to something.
- referred pain — pain felt in an area remote from the site of origin.
- reflex-action — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- reflexiveness — Grammar. (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself. (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
- refocillation — the restoring of strength by refreshment or revivement