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13-letter words containing e, t, o, u

  • excursionists — Plural form of excursionist.
  • executive job — a job in which a person is responsible for the administration of a project, activity, or business
  • executive toy — a novelty item, such as a Newton's cradle, on the desk of a corporate executive
  • expeditiously — In an expeditious manner.
  • exploratorium — A museum or similar institution that encourages visitors to explore the exhibits in a hands-on manner.
  • expostulating — Present participle of expostulate.
  • expostulation — (countable) The act of reasoning earnestly in order to dissuade or remonstrate.
  • expostulatory — Of, characterized by, or exhibiting expostulation.
  • facetiousness — (uncountable) The state of being facetious.
  • fatigue ratio — the ratio between the fatigue limit and the tensile strength of a material.
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • feature story — a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an individual style. Compare follow-up (def 3b), hard news, news story.
  • federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
  • fermentitious — of a fermenting nature
  • ferrotitanium — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent titanium.
  • ferrotungsten — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent tungsten.
  • feudalization — to make feudal; bring under the feudal system.
  • feuilletonism — The light, entertaining writing style associated with feuilletons.
  • feuilletonist — a part of a European newspaper devoted to light literature, fiction, criticism, etc.
  • filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
  • flag of truce — a white flag displayed as an invitation to the enemy to confer, or carried as a sign of peaceful intention by one sent to deal with the enemy.
  • flannel-mouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
  • floatcut file — file with rows of parallel teeth
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
  • fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
  • fluoroacetate — a toxic chemical compound, C2H2FNaO2, occurring naturally in certain plants, and commonly used as rat poison
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
  • 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.
  • forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
  • forked tongue — lying or deceitful talk
  • fort duquesne — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1610–88, French naval commander.
  • fort moultrieWilliam, 1730–1805, U.S. general.
  • fortunateness — The quality of being fortunate; fortune; luck.
  • fortuneteller — a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
  • foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
  • fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
  • fourth estate — the journalistic profession or its members; the press.
  • fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
  • fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
  • fracture zone — a long, narrow rift on the ocean floor, separating areas of differing depth: where such a zone crosses a mid-ocean ridge, it displaces the ridge by faulting.
  • freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
  • frequentation — the practice of frequenting; habit of visiting often.
  • frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
  • frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
  • fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
  • full throttle — used in the phrase at full throttle, at full speed or with great intensity
  • full-bottomed — (of a wig) long at the back
  • full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
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