13-letter words containing f, a, t, s
- fantasmagoric — phantasmagoria.
- fantastically — conceived or appearing as if conceived by an unrestrained imagination; odd and remarkable; bizarre; grotesque: fantastic rock formations; fantastic designs.
- fasciculation — a fascicular condition.
- fascinatingly — of great interest or attraction; enchanting; charming; captivating: a fascinating story; fascinating jewelry.
- fascistically — In a fascistic way.
- fashion plate — a person who consistently wears the latest style in dress.
- fashion shoot — an event at which photographs are taken of people wearing fashionable clothes
- fast dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another, merging the two scenes imperceptibly
- fast ethernet — (networking) A version of Ethernet developed in the 1990s(?) which can carry 100 Mbps compared with standard Ethernet's 10 Mbps. It requires upgraded network cards and hubs. The relevant standards are 100BaseT, 100BaseFX and 100BaseVG.
- fast follower — a company that is quick to pick up good new ideas from other companies
- fast telegram — a type of domestic telegram sent at full rate with a minimum charge for 10 words or less and accepted for immediate delivery.
- fast-breaking — (of a news story) occurring suddenly, and often portending a series of events or further developments in rapid succession.
- fast-tracking — the practice of speeding up the progress of a project or person
- fat electrons — (electronics, humour) Old-time hacker David Cargill's theory on the cause of computer glitches. Your typical electricity company draws its line current out of the big generators with a pair of coil taps located near the top of the dynamo. When the normal tap brushes get dirty, they take them off line to clean them up, and use special auxiliary taps on the *bottom* of the coil. Now, this is a problem, because when they do that they get not ordinary or "thin" electrons, but the fat sloppy electrons that are heavier and so settle to the bottom of the generator. These flow down ordinary wires just fine, but when they have to turn a sharp corner (as in an integrated-circuit via), they're apt to get stuck. This is what causes computer glitches. Compare bogon, magic smoke.
- fatheadedness — The quality of being fatheaded.
- father lasher — a large sea scorpion, Myoxocephalus scorpius, occurring in British and European coastal waters
- fatigableness — the quality of being fatigable
- faultlessness — The quality of being faultless; the absence of faults.
- faunistically — in a faunistic manner
- feasibilities — Plural form of feasibility.
- feast of lots — Purim.
- 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
- feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
- felicitations — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
- 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.
- feta (cheese) — a soft, white cheese first made in Greece
- fetishization — The act or process of fetishizing.
- feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
- 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.