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13-letter words containing f, a, r, e, s

  • favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
  • favrile glass — a type of iridescent glass developed by L.C. Tiffany
  • feather grass — any American grass of the genus Stipa, having a feathery appendage.
  • featherbrains — Plural form of featherbrain.
  • featherstitch — an embroidery stitch producing work in which a succession of branches extend alternately on each side of a central stem.
  • 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.
  • featurelessly — In a featureless way; without features.
  • febrifacients — Plural form of febrifacient.
  • feeder stream — a tributary that feeds into a larger river, canal, etc
  • fermentations — Plural form of fermentation.
  • fertilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of 'fertilization'.
  • festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
  • field marshal — an officer of the highest military rank in the British and certain other armies, and of the second highest rank in the French army.
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
  • file transfer — (networking)   Copying a file from one computer to another over a computer network. See also File Transfer Protocol, Kermit, Network File System, rcp, uucp, XMODEM, ZMODEM.
  • filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
  • fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour)   A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
  • finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
  • fireside chat — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
  • first baseman — the player whose position is first base.
  • first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
  • first quarter — the instant, approximately one week after a new moon, when one half of the moon's disk is illuminated by the sun.
  • first reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.
  • first refusal — If someone has first refusal on something that is being sold or offered, they have the right to decide whether or not to buy it or take it before it is offered to anyone else.
  • fish geranium — zonal geranium.
  • fish hatchery — a facility where fish eggs are hatched and the fry raised, especially to stock lakes, streams, and ponds.
  • flabbergasted — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flabbergaster — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
  • flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
  • flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
  • flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
  • flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • fly fisherman — one who fishes by fly-casting
  • flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
  • focal seizure — an epileptic manifestation arising from a localized anomaly in the brain, as a small tumor or scar, and usually involving a single motor or sensory mechanism but occasionally spreading to other areas and causing convulsions and loss of consciousness.
  • fool's errand — a completely absurd, pointless, or useless errand.
  • foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
  • for chrissake — for Christ's sake
  • for sb's sake — When you do something for someone's sake, you do it in order to help them or make them happy.
  • for values of — (jargon)   A common rhetorical maneuver at MIT is to use any of the canonical random numbers as placeholders for variables. "The max function takes 42 arguments, for arbitrary values of 42". "There are 69 ways to leave your lover, for 69 = 50". This is especially likely when the speaker has uttered a random number and realises that it was not recognised as such, but even "non-random" numbers are occasionally used in this fashion. A related joke is that pi equals 3 - for small values of pi and large values of 3. This usage probably derives from the programming language MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder), an ALGOL-like language that was the most common choice among mainstream (non-hacker) users at MIT in the mid-1960s. It had a control structure FOR VALUES OF X = 3, 7, 99 DO ... that would repeat the indicated instructions for each value in the list (unlike the usual FOR that generates an arithmetic sequence of values). MAD is long extinct, but similar for-constructs still flourish (e.g. in Unix's shell languages).
  • for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
  • force a smile — to make oneself smile
  • forearm smash — a blow like a punch delivered with the forearm in certain types of wrestling
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • forest ranger — any of the officers employed by the government to supervise the care and preservation of forests, especially public forests.
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