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

  • cashew family — the plant family Anacardiaceae, typified by trees, shrubs, or vines having resinous and sometimes poisonous juice, alternate leaves, small flowers, and a nut or fleshy fruit, and including the cashew, mango, pistachio, poison ivy, and sumac.
  • catch oneself — to hold oneself back abruptly from saying or doing something
  • caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
  • cause offence — If you cause offence or give offence to someone, you say or do something rude which upsets or embarrasses them.
  • cellar fungus — a fungus, Coniophora puteana, that causes dry rot in timber.
  • central falls — a city in NE Rhode Island.
  • changefulness — Propensity to change.
  • charles fries — Charles Carpenter, 1887–1967, U.S. linguist.
  • chieftainship — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
  • claims farmer — a middleman who encourages people to make compensation claims and who then sells these claims on to a lawyer
  • class warfare — conflict, tension between social classes
  • class-warfare — Also called class conflict. conflict between different classes in a community resulting from different social or economic positions and reflecting opposed interests.
  • classified ad — Classified ads or classified advertisements are small advertisements in a newspaper or magazine. They are usually from a person or small company.
  • cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
  • colorfastness — The characteristic of being colorfast.
  • comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
  • confederacies — Plural form of confederacy.
  • confessionals — Plural form of confessional.
  • confessionary — of or relating to confession, especially auricular confession of sins.
  • confiscatable — confiscable
  • confusticated — Simple past tense and past participle of confusticate.
  • conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
  • copper-fasten — to make (a bargain or agreement) binding
  • coralliferous — bearing or containing coral
  • cottage fries — potatoes that have been thinly sliced and then fried
  • counter shaft — A counter shaft is a shaft that runs parallel to the main shaft in a gearbox, and carries the pinion wheels.
  • counter staff — people who work behind the counter of a bank, post office, etc
  • countershafts — Plural form of countershaft.
  • craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
  • craftspersons — Plural form of craftsperson.
  • data transfer — (data)   Copying or moving data from one place to another, typically via some kind of network (e.g. Asynchronous Transfer Mode, File Transfer Protocol) or local data connection (bus, SCSI, IDE, SATA).
  • days of grace — days permitted by custom for payment of a promissory note, bill of exchange, etc, after it falls due
  • death futures — life insurance policies of terminally ill people that are bought speculatively for a lump sum by a company, enabling it to collect the proceeds of the policies when the sufferers die
  • declassifying — Present participle of declassify.
  • defamiliarise — Alternative spelling of defamiliarize.
  • defeasibility — capable of being annulled or terminated.
  • defenestrated — Simple past tense and past participle of defenestrate.
  • defenestrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defenestrate.
  • defloration's — the act of deflowering.
  • deforestation — to divest or clear of forests or trees: Poor planning deforested the area in ten years.
  • densification — the act of becoming or making more dense
  • desulfuration — to desulfurize.
  • dewar (flask) — a double-walled flask with a vacuum between the walls, which are silvered on the inside, used esp. for storage of liquefied gases
  • differentials — Plural form of differential.
  • disaffiliated — Simple past tense and past participle of disaffiliate.
  • disaffirmance — to deny; contradict.
  • disafforested — Simple past tense and past participle of disafforest.
  • 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.
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