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13-letter words containing f, a, r, i, n, e

  • confraternity — a group of men united for some particular purpose, esp Christian laymen organized for religious or charitable service; brotherhood
  • confrontative — tending toward or ready for confrontation: They came to the meeting with a confrontational attitude.
  • contrafactive — Denoting a verb that assigns to its object (normally a clausal object) the status of not being true, e.g., pretend and wish.
  • coreferential — (of more than one linguistic expression) designating the same individual or class
  • cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
  • craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
  • deferentially — showing deference; deferent; respectful.
  • defibrination — the act or process of defibrinating
  • defloration's — the act of deflowering.
  • deforestation — to divest or clear of forests or trees: Poor planning deforested the area in ten years.
  • deformational — of or relating to deformation
  • defragmenting — Present participle of defragment.
  • delirifacient — anything that causes or induces delirium
  • desulfuration — to desulfurize.
  • diffarreation — (historical) A form of divorce, among the Ancient Romans, in which a cake was used.
  • differentials — Plural form of differential.
  • differentiate — to form or mark differently from other such things; distinguish.
  • disaffirmance — to deny; contradict.
  • disaster fund — a fund set up to relieve people or countries afflicted by a disaster
  • disfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of disfranchise.
  • disfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfranchise.
  • draft version — a preliminary version
  • drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
  • drawing frame — a machine used to attenuate and straighten fibers by having them pass, in sliver form, through a series of double rollers, each pair of which revolves at a slightly greater speed than the preceding pair and reduces the number of strands originally fed into the machine to one extended fibrous strand doubled or redoubled in length.
  • dwarf ginseng — a plant, Panax trifolius, of eastern North America, having globe-shaped clusters of small, white flowers and yellow fruit.
  • ear infection — an infection that affects the ear
  • enfranchising — Present participle of enfranchise.
  • faerie queene — a chivalric romance in verse (1590–96) by Edmund Spenser.
  • faint-hearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
  • fairy penguin — a small penguin, Eudyptula minor, with a bluish head and back, found on the Australian coast
  • false horizon — a line or plane that simulates the horizon, used in altitude-measuring devices or the like.
  • family friend — intimate acquaintance of one's family
  • faroe islands — islands in Atlantic Ocean
  • farther india — a peninsula in SE Asia, between India and China: consists of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Malaysia
  • fashionmonger — (derogatory) One who slavishly follows the latest fashions.
  • fast-breaking — (of a news story) occurring suddenly, and often portending a series of events or further developments in rapid succession.
  • father-in-law — the father of one's husband or wife.
  • fearmongering — The action of deliberately arousing public fear or alarm about a particular issue.
  • featherbrains — Plural form of featherbrain.
  • febrifacients — Plural form of febrifacient.
  • ferdinand iii — Ferdinand II (def 1).
  • ferdinand vii — 1784–1833, king of Spain 1808, 1814–33.
  • fermentations — Plural form of fermentation.
  • ferricyanogen — (chemistry) A hexavalent radical, Fe2(CN)12, a compound of cyanogen and iron in the ferric state.
  • ferrimagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as a ferrite, in which the magnetic moments of some neighboring atoms point in opposite directions, with a net magnetization still resulting because of differences in magnitudes of the opposite moments.
  • ferroaluminum — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent aluminum.
  • ferromagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
  • ferrotitanium — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent titanium.
  • ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
  • fertilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of 'fertilization'.
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