13-letter words containing f, a, i, t, o
- staff of life — bread, considered as the mainstay of the human diet.
- staff officer — a commissioned officer who is a member of a staff.
- staff section — section (def 10b).
- staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
- staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
- star of david — Judaism: six-pointed star
- state of mind — mental condition, mood
- storax family — the plant family Styracaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, clusters of bell-shaped white flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the silver bell, snowbell, and storax.
- straightforth — straight or directly forward
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- sulfathiazole — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 9 H 9 N 3 O 2 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of pneumonia and staphylococcal infections, but now largely replaced because of its toxicity.
- superfetation — the fertilization of an ovum in a female mammal already pregnant.
- tale of genji — a novel (1001–20?) by Lady Murasaki, dealing with Japanese court life.
- tariff office — a company whose premiums are based on a tariff agreed with other insurance companies
- tariff reform — increase in import duties
- tariffication — the creation, fixing, or conversion of a tariff
- testification — the act of testifying or giving testimony.
- testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
- tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
- thalamifloral — relating to the Thalamiflorae
- thurification — the act of incense-burning
- tight forward — one of a number of forwards who are bound wholly into the scrum
- to bear fruit — If the effort that you put into something or a particular way of doing something bears fruit, it is successful and produces good results.
- to catch fire — If an object or substance catches fire, it starts burning.
- to go off air — to stop broadcasting
- to stand firm — If someone stands firm, they refuse to change their mind about something.
- toasting fork — a long-handled fork used for cooking or toasting frankfurters, marshmallows, bread, etc., usually over an open fire.
- tortilla flat — a novel (1935) by John Steinbeck.
- trading floor — stock exchange: room where trading is done
- traffic court — a court that passes on alleged violations of traffic laws.
- transfrontier — the part of a country that borders another country; boundary; border.
- transfusional — of or relating to transfusion
- trifunctional — pertaining to molecules that can react at three sites.
- tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
- twist of fate — unexpected chance occurrence
- two of a kind — two similar people or things
- uninformative — not educational
- versification — the act of versifying.
- violet family — the plant family Violaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and some tropical shrubs and trees having alternate, usually simple leaves, solitary flowers with five usually irregular petals, the lower petal often spurred, and a berry or many-seeded capsule, and including the Johnny-jump-up, pansy, and numerous species of violet.
- vitrification — act or process of vitrifying; state of being vitrified.
- volcanic tuff — tuff2 .
- walk off with — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- water milfoil — any of various aquatic plants, chiefly of the genus Myriophyllum, the submerged leaves of which are very finely divided.
- waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
- waterproofing — Chiefly British. a raincoat or other outer coat impervious to water.
- wave function — a solution of a wave equation.
- wolffian duct — a duct, draining the mesonephros of the embryo, that becomes the vas deferens in males and vestigial in females.
- yuppification — The act or process of yuppifying.
- zincification — the act or process of coating or plating with zinc
- zombification — The act or process of zombifying.