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

  • felicitations — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
  • fellowshiping — Present participle of fellowship.
  • fellowshipped — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
  • feloniousness — The quality of being felonious.
  • fermentations — Plural form of fermentation.
  • fermentitious — of a fermenting nature
  • ferociousness — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
  • ferrosoferric — containing both a ferrous compound and a ferric compound
  • ferrous oxide — a black powder, FeO, insoluble in water, soluble in acid.
  • 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.
  • festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
  • festschriften — Plural form of festschrift.
  • fetishization — The act or process of fetishizing.
  • feuilletonism — The light, entertaining writing style associated with feuilletons.
  • feuilletonist — a part of a European newspaper devoted to light literature, fiction, criticism, etc.
  • fever blister — cold sore.
  • fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
  • fictionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fictionalize.
  • fiddlesticks! — an expression of annoyance or disagreement
  • fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
  • field glasses — Usually, field glasses. binoculars for use out of doors.
  • field marshal — an officer of the highest military rank in the British and certain other armies, and of the second highest rank in the French army.
  • field service — military service performed in the field
  • field servoid — (jargon, abuse)   /fee'ld ser'voyd/ A play on "android", a derogatory term for a representative of a field service organisation (see field circus), suggesting an unintelligent rule-driven approach to servicing computer hardware.
  • field spaniel — one of a British breed of spaniels having a flat or slightly waved, usually black coat, used for hunting and retrieving game.
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • field-glasses — Field-glasses are the same as binoculars.
  • fieldstripped — Simple past tense and past participle of fieldstrip.
  • 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.
  • fifty-seventh — next after the fifty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 57.
  • figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
  • 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.
  • filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
  • filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
  • filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
  • filing system — file system
  • filipendulous — Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
  • fill her tins — to complete a home baking of cakes, biscuits, etc
  • film festival — a festival devoted to film
  • film sequence — a short piece of film or extract from a film, depicting a specific action or event
  • filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
  • fin de siecle — the end of the 19th century.
  • finagle's law — (humour)   The generalised or "folk" version of Murphy's Law, fully named "Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives" and usually rendered "Anything that can go wrong, will". One variant favoured among hackers is "The perversity of the Universe tends toward a maximum". The label "Finagle's Law" was popularised by SF author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners; this "Belter" culture professed a religion and/or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy.
  • final whistle — sport: whistle indicating end of match
  • fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour)   A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
  • fingal's cave — a cave on the island of Staffa, in the Hebrides, Scotland. 227 feet (69 meters) long; 42 feet (13 meters) wide.
  • finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
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