13-letter words containing f, a, r, t, s
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
- flirtatiously — given or inclined to flirtation.
- floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
- floristically — In a floristic manner.
- fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- for sb's part — When you are describing people's thoughts or actions, you can say for her part or for my part, for example, to introduce what a particular person thinks or does.
- for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- forest ranger — any of the officers employed by the government to supervise the care and preservation of forests, especially public forests.
- 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
- formalisation — Alternative spelling of formalization.
- formularistic — relating to formularization
- fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
- fortunateness — The quality of being fortunate; fortune; luck.
- foster father — a man who takes the place of a father in raising a child.
- foster parent — a foster father or foster mother.
- four-way stop — an intersection of two roads with four stop signs, one facing in each direction
- fourth estate — the journalistic profession or its members; the press.
- fowler's toad — an eastern U.S. toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri, having an almost patternless white belly.
- fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
- fractionalism — the state of being separate or inharmonious
- fractionalist — an advocate or supporter of fractionalism
- fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- fractocumulus — low ragged slightly bulbous cloud, often appearing below nimbostratus clouds during rain
- fractostratus — low ragged layered cloud often appearing below nimbostratus clouds during rain
- franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- free software — (software) Software that everyone is free to copy, redistribute and modify. That implies free software must be available as source code, hence "free open source software" - "FOSS". It is usually also free of charge, though anyone can sell free software so long as they don't impose any new restrictions on its redistribution or use. The widespread acceptance of this definition and free software itself owes a great deal to Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. There are many other kinds of "free software" in the sense of "free of charge". See "-ware".
- free-standing — A free-standing piece of furniture or other object is not fixed to anything, or stands on its own away from other things.
- french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
- frontal gyrus — any of several convolutions on the outer surface of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum.
- frosted glass — etched glass with a translucent surface
- frozen assets — business assets that are not convertible into cash, as by government direction or business conditions
- 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
- frustratingly — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- fusarium wilt — a disease of plants, characterized by damping-off, wilting, and a brown dry rot, caused by fungi of the genus Fusarium.
- futilitarians — Plural form of futilitarian.
- 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.
- grain of salt — salt crystal
- half-deserted — (of a place) not having many inhabitants, visitors, etc
- handcraftsman — A handicraftsman.
- hard and fast — strongly binding; not to be set aside or violated: hard-and-fast rules.
- hard-and-fast — strongly binding; not to be set aside or violated: hard-and-fast rules.
- 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.