13-letter words containing e, f, o, r, t, s
- firing stroke — The firing stroke is the stroke of an engine in which the fuel is burned and energy sent to the piston.
- first edition — the whole number of copies of a literary work printed first, from the same type, and issued together.
- first officer — first mate.
- first peoples — any of the indigenous peoples or Indian communities of Canada, especially one formally recognized by the Canadian government.
- flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- foerstner bit — a bit for drilling blind holes, guided from the rim rather than from the center to permit it to enter the wood at an oblique angle.
- fons et origo — the source and origin
- food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
- for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- for the worse — into a less desirable or inferior state or condition
- for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- foreshortened — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten.
- foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
- foresightless — lacking foresight
- forest ranger — any of the officers employed by the government to supervise the care and preservation of forests, especially public forests.
- forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
- forgottenness — the status of being forgotten
- formal system — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
- fort donelson — Fort Donelson.
- fort duquesne — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1610–88, French naval commander.
- fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
- fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
- fortunateness — The quality of being fortunate; fortune; luck.
- forty-seventh — next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
- foster father — a man who takes the place of a father in raising a child.
- foster mother — a woman who takes the place of a mother in raising a child.
- foster parent — a foster father or foster mother.
- foster sister — a girl brought up with another child of different parents.
- fourth estate — the journalistic profession or its members; the press.
- fowler's toad — an eastern U.S. toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri, having an almost patternless white belly.
- fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
- fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- free software — (software) Software that everyone is free to copy, redistribute and modify. That implies free software must be available as source code, hence "free open source software" - "FOSS". It is usually also free of charge, though anyone can sell free software so long as they don't impose any new restrictions on its redistribution or use. The widespread acceptance of this definition and free software itself owes a great deal to Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. There are many other kinds of "free software" in the sense of "free of charge". See "-ware".
- freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
- frontier post — an official point where people or vehicles cross over a border between countries
- frontispieces — Plural form of frontispiece.
- frontogenesis — the formation or increase of a front or frontal zone.
- frosted glass — etched glass with a translucent surface
- 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
- frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
- frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
- get rid of sb — If you get rid of someone who is causing problems for you or who you do not like, you do something to prevent them affecting you any more, for example by making them leave.
- hertfordshire — a county in SE England. 631 sq. mi. (1635 sq. km).