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

  • fashion sense — instinct for what is stylish
  • fashionmonger — (derogatory) One who slavishly follows the latest fashions.
  • 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-breaking — (of a news story) occurring suddenly, and often portending a series of events or further developments in rapid succession.
  • 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-in-law — the father of one's husband or wife.
  • fatigableness — the quality of being fatigable
  • fault current — A fault current is a current that results from a fault.
  • faultlessness — The quality of being faultless; the absence of faults.
  • favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
  • fearmongering — The action of deliberately arousing public fear or alarm about a particular issue.
  • featherbrains — Plural form of featherbrain.
  • febrifacients — Plural form of febrifacient.
  • felicitations — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
  • fellow inmate — sb in same prison
  • female condom — a type of condom used by women and inserted into the vagina
  • fencing match — a match between fencers
  • ferae naturae — (of animals) wild or undomesticated (distinguished from domitae naturae).
  • ferdinand iii — Ferdinand II (def 1).
  • ferdinand vii — 1784–1833, king of Spain 1808, 1814–33.
  • fermentations — Plural form of fermentation.
  • ferricyanogen — (chemistry) A hexavalent radical, Fe2(CN)12, a compound of cyanogen and iron in the ferric state.
  • ferrimagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as a ferrite, in which the magnetic moments of some neighboring atoms point in opposite directions, with a net magnetization still resulting because of differences in magnitudes of the opposite moments.
  • ferroaluminum — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent aluminum.
  • ferrocyanogen — a ferrocyanide radical
  • 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.
  • ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
  • ferry company — a company that operates a ferry or ferries
  • fertilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of 'fertilization'.
  • fertilization — an act, process, or instance of fertilizing.
  • festina lente — hasten slowly
  • fetishization — The act or process of fetishizing.
  • feudalization — to make feudal; bring under the feudal system.
  • fibre channel — (storage, networking, communications)   An ANSI standard originally intended for high-speed SANs connecting servers, disc arrays, and backup devices, also later adapted to form the physical layer of Gigabit Ethernet. Development work on Fibre channel started in 1988 and it was approved by the ANSI standards committee in 1994, running at 100Mb/s. More recent innovations have seen the speed of Fibre Channel SANs increase to 10Gb/s. Several topologies are possible with Fibre Channel, the most popular being a number of devices attached to one (or two, for redundancy) central Fibre Channel switches, creating a reliable infrastructure that allows servers to share storage arrays or tape libraries. One common use of Fibre Channel SANs is for high availability databaseq clusters where two servers are connected to one highly reliable RAID array. Should one server fail, the other server can mount the array itself and continue operations with minimal downtime and loss of data. Other advanced features include the ability to have servers and hard drives seperated by hundreds of miles or to rapidly mirror data between servers and hard drives, perhaps in seperate geographic locations.
  • 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.
  • fiddle around — waste time doing sth trivial
  • 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.
  • field spaniel — one of a British breed of spaniels having a flat or slightly waved, usually black coat, used for hunting and retrieving game.
  • 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.
  • 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 edition — the last version of a particular issue of a daily newspaper
  • final whistle — sport: whistle indicating end of match
  • finback whale — rorqual
  • 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.
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