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

  • 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.
  • first-nighter — a person who often or usually attends the theater, opera, etc., on opening night.
  • fish geranium — zonal geranium.
  • fish hatchery — a facility where fish eggs are hatched and the fry raised, especially to stock lakes, streams, and ponds.
  • fishbone fern — a common Australian fern, Nephrolepsis cordifolia, having fronds with many pinnae
  • fisher of men — an evangelist
  • fitted carpet — wall-to-wall carpeting
  • flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
  • flameproofing — Present participle of flameproof.
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
  • flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
  • fleet admiral — the highest ranking naval officer, ranking next above admiral.
  • fleet air arm — the aviation branch of the Royal Navy
  • flight leader — a pilot who commands a flight of military airplanes.
  • flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
  • floating rate — fluctuating exchange rate
  • floorcovering — A covering for a floor.
  • flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
  • flunitrazepam — a powerful benzodiazepine sedative, C 16 H 12 FN 3 O 3 , that causes semiconsciousness and memory blackouts: has been implicated in date rapes and is illegal in the U.S.
  • fluorohydride — (inorganic chemistry) An compound formed by the addition of the elements of hydrogen fluoride.
  • fly fisherman — one who fishes by fly-casting
  • flying bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
  • flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
  • focal seizure — an epileptic manifestation arising from a localized anomaly in the brain, as a small tumor or scar, and usually involving a single motor or sensory mechanism but occasionally spreading to other areas and causing convulsions and loss of consciousness.
  • foerstner bit — a bit for drilling blind holes, guided from the rim rather than from the center to permit it to enter the wood at an oblique angle.
  • folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
  • fonctionnaire — a civil servant
  • fons et origo — the source and origin
  • food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
  • foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
  • for chrissake — for Christ's sake
  • for dear life — the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
  • for one thing — the first reason is
  • for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
  • foraminiferal — Of, pertaining to, or resembling the foraminifers; foraminiferous.
  • foraminiferan — any chiefly marine protozoan of the sarcodinian order Foraminifera, typically having a linear, spiral, or concentric shell perforated by small holes or pores through which pseudopodia extend.
  • forbiddenness — a past participle of forbid.
  • force a smile — to make oneself smile
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • fore clipping — a word formed by omitting the first part of the form from which it is derived.
  • foreconscious — the preconscious.
  • forefeelingly — by way of forefeeling
  • foregrounding — Present participle of foreground.
  • foreign agent — a spy for a foreign country
  • foreign-owned — owned by an individual who is resident in a different country or by a company whose headquarters are in a different country
  • forementioned — Mentioned earlier or above; already cited.
  • foreordaining — Present participle of foreordain.
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