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

  • nonrefillable — Not refillable; unable to be refilled.
  • nonreflecting — Not reflecting.
  • nonreflective — Not reflective.
  • nurse-midwife — a nurse skilled in assisting women in the prenatal period and in childbirth, especially at home or in another nonhospital setting.
  • odoriferously — In an odoriferous manner.
  • off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
  • off-side rule — A lexical convention due to Landin, allowing the scope of declarations in a program to be expressed by indentation. Any non-whitespace token to the left of the first such token on the previous line is taken to be the start of a new declaration. Used in, for example, Miranda and Haskell.
  • office bearer — a person who holds an office, as in a society, company, club, etc; official
  • office junior — a young person, esp a school-leaver, employed in an office for running errands and doing other minor jobs
  • office seeker — a person who seeks appointment or election to some government position.
  • office worker — employee in an office
  • office-holder — An office-holder is a person who has an important official position in an organization or government.
  • officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
  • old favourite — If you refer to something as an old favourite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
  • olefin series — alkene series.
  • olfactometric — Of or pertaining to olfactometry.
  • oligofluorene — (organic chemistry) Any of a class of aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons consisting of several fluorene units attached end-to-end.
  • on reflection — second thoughts
  • one's forties — the ages between 40 and 49
  • optical fiber — optical fibre
  • optical fibre — (communications)   (fibre optics, FO, US "fiber", light pipe) A plastic or glass (silicon dioxide) fibre no thicker than a human hair used to transmit information using infra-red or even visible light as the carrier (usually a laser). The light beam is an electromagnetic signal with a frequency in the range of 10^14 to 10^15 Hertz. Optical fibre is less susceptible to external noise than other transmission media, and is cheaper to make than copper wire, but it is much more difficult to connect. Optical fibres are difficult to tamper with (to monitor or inject data in the middle of a connection), making them appropriate for secure communications. The light beams do not escape from the medium because the material used provides total internal reflection. See also FDDI, Optical Carrier n, SONET.
  • ordered field — Mathematics. a field containing a subset of elements closed under addition and multiplication and having the property that every element in the field is either zero, in the subset, or has its additive inverse in the subset.
  • orifice meter — a plate having a central hole that is placed across the flow of a liquid, usually between flanges in a pipeline. The pressure difference generated by the flow velocity through the hole enables the flow quantity to be measured
  • osteofibrosis — loss of calcium from the bones, causing them to become fragile
  • out of kilter — If one thing is out of kilter with another, the first thing does not agree with or fit in with the second.
  • outperforming — Present participle of outperform.
  • over-effusive — unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person.
  • over-identify — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
  • overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
  • overconfident — too confident.
  • overfertilize — to apply too much fertilizer to
  • overflow pipe — a pipe which discharges excess or leaking water safely
  • overflowingly — to an excessive degree
  • overinflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
  • overqualified — having more education, training, or experience than is required for a job or position.
  • pacific grove — a city in W California, at S end of Monterey Bay.
  • paper profits — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
  • paradise fish — any small freshwater fish of the genus Macropodus, of southeastern Asia, often kept in aquariums.
  • parainfluenza — an influenzalike respiratory infection of animals and humans, caused by any of several paramyxoviruses.
  • passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
  • paterfamilias — the male head of a household or family, usually the father.
  • peace officer — a civil officer appointed to preserve the public peace, as a sheriff or constable.
  • penicilliform — in the shape of a pencil or paintbrush
  • pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
  • pepper family — the plant family Piperaceae, characterized by tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having simple leaves, dense spikes of very small flowers, and fleshy, berrylike fruit, and including peperomia and peppers of the genus Piper.
  • perfect pitch — absolute pitch (def 2).
  • perfectionate — to perfect; to make perfect
  • perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
  • perfectionist — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
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