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

  • 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.
  • personal foul — a foul called in certain games, as basketball or football, for illegal body contact or rough, unsportsmanlike play.
  • 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.
  • place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
  • 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.
  • press of sail — as much sail as the wind or other conditions will permit a ship to carry.
  • professoriate — a group of professors.
  • quarterfinals — Plural form of quarterfinal.
  • quartziferous — consisting of or containing quartz: quartziferous rock.
  • quasi-federal — pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in federal government; federal system.
  • refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
  • reforestation — to replant trees on (land denuded by cutting or fire).
  • refried beans — fried mashed beans
  • refuse a card — If you refuse a card, you do not allow someone's credit card to be used to pay a bill.
  • regardless of — in spite of
  • reinfestation — the act of infesting; state of being infested.
  • reversal film — film developed by the reversal process.
  • reverse fault — a fault in which the rock above the fault plane is displaced upward relative to the rock below the fault plane (opposed to gravity fault).
  • rhesus factor — Rh factor.
  • rose of china — China rose (def 2).
  • ruled surface — a surface that can be generated by a straight line, as a cylinder or cone.
  • sacrifice fly — a fly ball when there are fewer than two players out that enables a base runner, usually at third base, to score after the ball is caught.
  • saddle oxford — saddle shoe.
  • safari jacket — bush jacket.
  • safety factor — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
  • safety margin — something required to ensure safety
  • safety screen — a screen covering a work area and protecting people and equipment from fire and other danger
  • safflower oil — an oil expressed or extracted fromsafflower seeds, used in cooking, as a salad oil, and as a vehicle for medicines, paints, varnishes, etc.
  • sales figures — the amount of sales of something within a particular time frame
  • sandfly fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in hot, dry areas, characterized by fever, eye pain, and sometimes a rash, transmitted by sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus.
  • sassafras tea — a tea made from the aromatic dried bark of the root of the sassafras tree, often used medicinally as a stimulant, diaphoretic, and diuretic.
  • saturated fat — a type of single-bond animal or vegetable fat, as that found in butter, meat, egg yolks, and coconut or palm oil, that in humans tends to increase cholesterol levels in the blood. Compare saturated (def 3).
  • scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
  • scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
  • scarlet fever — a contagious febrile disease caused by streptococci and characterized by a scarlet eruption.
  • schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
  • sea butterfly — any member of the gastropod order Pteropoda, shelled marine mollusks so called for their ability to swim using winglike extensions of the foot.
  • seafaring man — a sailor
  • second of arc — second2 (def 4).
  • self-absorbed — preoccupied with one's thoughts, interests, etc.
  • self-apparent — clear and evident without need of further evidence
  • self-approval — the act of approving; approbation.
  • self-betrayal — to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty: Benedict Arnold betrayed his country.
  • self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
  • self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
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