13-letter words containing f, a, t, i, e, s
- fermentations — Plural form of fermentation.
- fertilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of 'fertilization'.
- festina lente — hasten slowly
- festival hall — a concert hall in London, on the South Bank of the Thames: constructed for the 1951 Festival of Britain; completed 1964–65
- festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
- fetishization — The act or process of fetishizing.
- fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
- fictionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fictionalize.
- fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
- fifth disease — Pathology. a mild infection, most often seen in children or young adults, caused by a small virus ((the human parvovirus B19)) and marked by a blotchy rash on the cheeks, arms, and legs.
- 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.
- film festival — a festival devoted to film
- final whistle — sport: whistle indicating end of match
- fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour) A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
- finite clause — a clause with a finite verb in its predicate.
- 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 hatchery — a facility where fish eggs are hatched and the fry raised, especially to stock lakes, streams, and ponds.
- flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
- flemish giant — one of a breed of large domestic rabbits of Belgian origin, having a solid gray, white, or black coat, and raised for its meat and fur.
- for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
- fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
- fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
- fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- 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-standing — A free-standing piece of furniture or other object is not fixed to anything, or stands on its own away from other things.
- frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
- functionalise — to make functional.
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- fusible metal — any of various alloys, as of bismuth, lead, and tin, that melt at temperatures as low as 160°F (70°C), making them useful in various safety devices.
- garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
- half-digested — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
- 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:
- impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
- infeasibility — not feasible; impracticable.
- infinitesimal — indefinitely or exceedingly small; minute: infinitesimal vessels in the circulatory system.
- 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.
- justificative — Justificatory.
- kiss of death — a fatal or destructive relationship or action: The support of the outlawed group was the kiss of death to the candidate.
- landfill site — also landfill