13-letter words containing f, e, l, a, t, i
- elephant fish — a large marine fish, Callorhinchus milii, of southwest Pacific waters, having a snout resembling an elephant's trunk
- extrafamilial — Outside a family.
- fabric filter — A fabric filter is a type of filter in which solids are removed from a gas by passing it though a fabric.
- face validity — the extent to which a psychological test appears to measure what it is intended to measure
- facial tissue — a soft, disposable paper tissue especially for cleansing the face or for use as a handkerchief.
- factionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of factionalize.
- facts of life — any aspect of human existence that must be acknowledged or regarded as unalterable: Old age is a fact of life.
- facultatively — In a facultative manner.
- fairly-traded — bought from the producer at a guaranteed price
- faith healing — healing effected through prayer or religious faith; divine healing.
- faithlessness — The quality of being faithless.
- fallibilities — (of persons) liable to err, especially in being deceived or mistaken.
- familiarities — Plural form of familiarity.
- family credit — (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
- fanaticalness — Fanaticism.
- 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
- father-in-law — the father of one's husband or wife.
- fatigableness — the quality of being fatigable
- fatigue limit — the maximum stress to which a material can be subjected without failing.
- fault breccia — angular rock fragments produced by fracture and grinding during faulting and distributed within or adjacent to the fault plane.
- feasibilities — Plural form of feasibility.
- feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
- felicitations — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
- fellow inmate — sb in same prison
- fertilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of 'fertilization'.
- fertilization — an act, process, or instance of fertilizing.
- 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.
- 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.
- field battery — a small unit of usually four field guns
- field captain — a member of a team taking active part in a game who is authorized to make decisions for the team, especially in regard to planning plays, deciding whether to accept penalties called by an official against the opponents, etc.
- filamentation — The growth of filaments.
- 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
- filter factor — a number indicating the increased exposure that a particular film should receive when a photograph is taken using a particular filter.
- filterability — The state or condition of being filterable.
- final edition — the last version of a particular issue of a daily newspaper
- final whistle — sport: whistle indicating end of match
- finite clause — a clause with a finite verb in its predicate.
- 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.
- fixed capital — capital goods, as machinery and tools, that are relatively durable and can be used repeatedly in the production of goods.
- flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
- flame cutting — a method of cutting ferrous metals in which the metal is heated by a torch to about 800°C and is oxidized by a stream of oxygen from the torch
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.