13-letter words containing f, a, i, t
- argentiferous — containing or bearing silver
- aridification — the process by which a humid region becomes increasingly dry, as by climatic change or human interference with the ecology.
- artificiality — artificial quality.
- artificialize — to render artificial
- assault rifle — a firearm that is capable of firing multiple rounds in a very short period
- at first hand — If you learn or experience something at first hand, you experience it yourself or learn it directly rather than being told about it by other people.
- at knifepoint — If you are attacked or robbed at knifepoint, someone threatens you with a knife while they attack or steal from you.
- at the fiddle — engaged in an illegal or fraudulent undertaking
- autoinfection — infection by a pathogenic agent already within the body or infection transferred from one part of the body to another
- aviation fuel — fuel used to power airplanes
- backformation — Alternative spelling of back-formation.
- bag of tricks — a container or receptacle of leather, plastic, cloth, paper, etc., capable of being closed at the mouth; pouch.
- baritone clef — an F clef locating F below middle C on the third line of the staff.
- basic fortran — (language) A subset of Fortran.
- battered wife — See under battered woman syndrome.
- beatification — a beatifying or being beatified
- beautifulness — having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
- bellefontaine — a city in W Ohio.
- beneficential — relating to beneficence
- beneficiation — the procedure of reducing ores
- benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
- benefit match — a sports match organized to raise money for charity, or for a particular player
- beta function — a function of two variables, usually expressed as an improper integral and equal to the quotient of the product of the values of the gamma function at each variable divided by the value of the gamma function at the sum of the variables.
- 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.
- 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.
- cafe curtains — short, straight curtains, esp. for covering the lower part of a window, hung from a rod by means of sliding rings
- cage fighting — Cage fighting is a type of organized violent fighting that takes place in an enclosed space.
- calcification — the process of calcifying or becoming calcified
- 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
- 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
- carnification — the conversion of tissue into flesh or a fleshlike substance, as of lung tissue into fibrous tissue as a result of pneumonia.
- caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
- centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
- certification — a document attesting the truth of a fact or statement
- certificatory — Serving to certify something.
- chieftainship — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
- chip graffiti — microchip art
- chylification — the process of turning into chyle
- chymification — the process of turning into chyme
- 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.
- city of david — Jerusalem. II Sam. 5:6–7.
- claim to fame — Someone's claim to fame is something quite important or interesting that they have done or that is connected with them.
- clarification — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
- clarificatory — Of or pertaining to clarification.
- coalification — the compression, over time, of plant matter into coal
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- codifiability — the quality of being codifiable
- comme il faut — correct or correctly