13-letter words containing f, a, r, e, s, t
- 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.
- gene transfer — Biotechnology. the insertion of copies of a gene into living cells in order to induce synthesis of the gene's product: the desired gene may be microinjected directly into the cell or it may be inserted into the core of a virus by gene splicing and the virus allowed to infect the cell for replication of the gene in the cell's DNA.
- 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.
- half-deserted — (of a place) not having many inhabitants, visitors, etc
- heartfeltness — The state or quality of being heartfelt.
- heat transfer — Heat transfer is the movement of heat from one substance or material to another.
- horsefeathers — (used with a singular or plural verb) something not worth considering.
- image formats — (graphics, file format) There are many formats used to store images in files. GIF, TIFF and JPEG are very common. Others are BIFF, bmp, Clear, FITS, IFF, NFF, OFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, XBM. Some of these are documented on-line at the following sites:
- informalities — Plural form of informality.
- infrared star — a star radiating strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- interstratify — to lie in interposed or alternate strata.
- intraspecific — existing or occurring within a species.
- kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
- leapfrog test — a diagnostic technique using arithmetic or logical operations in a routine to manage the capacity of storage media, transfer data, and check the results.
- lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
- magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
- make sport of — to mock or ridicule; poke fun at
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- manufacturers — Plural form of manufacturer.
- market forces — factors driving the economy
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- masterfulness — The quality of being masterful.
- materfamilias — the mother of a family.
- merchant fees — Merchant fees are money charged by a merchant service to a vendor for processing credit card transactions.
- metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
- narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
- nectariferous — producing nectar.
- of all others — above all others
- off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
- olfactometers — Plural form of olfactometer.
- orate fratres — the call to prayer, addressed by the celebrant of the Mass to the people just before the Secret.
- out of square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- out-of-stater — a visitor from another state of the U.S.: Many out-of-staters come to our summer music festival.
- paper profits — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
- paterfamilias — the male head of a household or family, usually the father.
- perfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which sexual spores are formed, as the asci in the sexual stage of the ascomycete.
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- platiniferous — platinum-bearing
- post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- prefix syntax — prefix notation
- presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
- professoriate — a group of professors.
- quarterfinals — Plural form of quarterfinal.
- quartziferous — consisting of or containing quartz: quartziferous rock.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned