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13-letter words containing f, e, a, t, o

  • fashion plate — a person who consistently wears the latest style in dress.
  • fast dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another, merging the two scenes imperceptibly
  • fast follower — a company that is quick to pick up good new ideas from other companies
  • 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.
  • fatigue ratio — the ratio between the fatigue limit and the tensile strength of a material.
  • feast of lots — Purim.
  • 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.
  • federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
  • feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
  • felicitations — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
  • fellow inmate — sb in same prison
  • fermentations — Plural form of fermentation.
  • 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.
  • fertilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of 'fertilization'.
  • fertilization — an act, process, or instance of fertilizing.
  • festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
  • fetishization — The act or process of fetishizing.
  • feudalization — to make feudal; bring under the feudal system.
  • fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
  • fictionalized — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
  • fictionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fictionalize.
  • filamentation — The growth of filaments.
  • filter factor — a number indicating the increased exposure that a particular film should receive when a photograph is taken using a particular filter.
  • final edition — the last version of a particular issue of a daily newspaper
  • flag of truce — a white flag displayed as an invitation to the enemy to confer, or carried as a sign of peaceful intention by one sent to deal with the enemy.
  • flame-thrower — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
  • flannel-mouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
  • flat-bottomed — (of boats) having a flat bottom.
  • flatbed lorry — a lorry with a flat platform for its body
  • flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
  • float chamber — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
  • floatcut file — file with rows of parallel teeth
  • floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
  • floating rate — fluctuating exchange rate
  • floating vote — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
  • flog to death — to persuade a person so persistently of the value of (an idea or venture) that he or she loses interest in it
  • fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
  • fluoroacetate — a toxic chemical compound, C2H2FNaO2, occurring naturally in certain plants, and commonly used as rat poison
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • foliage plant — any plant grown chiefly for its attractive leaves.
  • fonctionnaire — a civil servant
  • fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
  • food additive — additive (def 4).
  • foolheartedly — Foolishly. In a foolhardy manner. Without thinking about the consequences.
  • football game — soccer match
  • for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
  • foreign agent — a spy for a foreign country
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