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13-letter words containing f, a, l, t, e

  • flemish giant — one of a breed of large domestic rabbits of Belgian origin, having a solid gray, white, or black coat, and raised for its meat and fur.
  • flight leader — a pilot who commands a flight of military airplanes.
  • float chamber — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
  • floatcut file — file with rows of parallel teeth
  • floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
  • floating rate — fluctuating exchange rate
  • floating vote — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
  • flog to death — to persuade a person so persistently of the value of (an idea or venture) that he or she loses interest in it
  • fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
  • flunitrazepam — a powerful benzodiazepine sedative, C 16 H 12 FN 3 O 3 , that causes semiconsciousness and memory blackouts: has been implicated in date rapes and is illegal in the U.S.
  • fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
  • fluoroacetate — a toxic chemical compound, C2H2FNaO2, occurring naturally in certain plants, and commonly used as rat poison
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
  • foliage plant — any plant grown chiefly for its attractive leaves.
  • fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
  • foolheartedly — Foolishly. In a foolhardy manner. Without thinking about the consequences.
  • football game — soccer match
  • 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
  • formal theory — 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 campbell — a military reservation in SW Kentucky and NW Tennessee, NW of Clarksville, Tenn., and SW of Hopkinsville, Ky.
  • forward delta — The delta which, when combined with a version, creates a child version. See change management
  • fowler's toad — an eastern U.S. toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri, having an almost patternless white belly.
  • foxtail wedge — a wedge in the split end of a tenon, bolt, or the like, for spreading and securing it when driven into a blind mortise or hole.
  • fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
  • fractionalize — Divide (someone or something) into separate groups or parts.
  • fragmentarily — consisting of or reduced to fragments; broken; disconnected; incomplete: fragmentary evidence; fragmentary remains.
  • frank whittle — Sir Frank, 1907–96, English engineer and inventor.
  • frankenthaler — Helen, 1928–2011, U.S. painter.
  • franklin tree — a deciduous tree, Franklinia alatamaha, having large, white, fragrant flowers, one of the rarest trees in the world, once native only to Georgia and now known only in cultivation.
  • free enthalpy — a thermodynamic property of a system equal to the difference between its enthalpy and the product of its temperature and its entropy. It is usually measured in joules
  • free-floating — (of an emotional state) lacking an apparent cause, focus, or object; generalized: free-floating hostility.
  • freight plane — an aeroplane used to transport goods
  • frosted glass — etched glass with a translucent surface
  • full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
  • functionalise — to make functional.
  • functionalize — to make functional.
  • fundamentally — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • fusible metal — any of various alloys, as of bismuth, lead, and tin, that melt at temperatures as low as 160°F (70°C), making them useful in various safety devices.
  • futtock plate — a metal plate placed perpendicular to the top of a ship's lower mast to hold the futtock shrouds.
  • general staff — a group of officers who are without command and whose duty is to assist high commanders in planning and carrying out orders in peace and war.
  • get a load of — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
  • gill filament — one of the threadlike processes forming the respiratory surface of a gill.
  • glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
  • go fly a kite — to move through the air using wings.
  • grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
  • half the time — If you say that something is the case half the time you mean that it often is the case.
  • half-deserted — (of a place) not having many inhabitants, visitors, etc
  • half-digested — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
  • half-educated — having undergone education: educated people.
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