13-letter words containing f, e, r, n, l
- false saffron — a red dye used for cotton and for colouring foods and cosmetics, or a drug obtained from the florets of this plant
- family friend — intimate acquaintance of one's family
- fanfold paper — continuous paper perforated at regular intervals, as used in a dot-matrix printer
- farmer's lung — a lung disorder caused by inhalation of moldy hay dust, marked by shortness of breath, dry cough, and weight loss.
- faroe islands — islands in Atlantic Ocean
- 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.
- father-in-law — the father of one's husband or wife.
- fault current — A fault current is a current that results from a fault.
- favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
- felony murder — a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
- ferroaluminum — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent aluminum.
- fertilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of 'fertilization'.
- fertilization — an act, process, or instance of fertilizing.
- 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.
- fiddle around — waste time doing sth trivial
- 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.
- fill her tins — to complete a home baking of cakes, biscuits, etc
- flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
- flameproofing — Present participle of flameproof.
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
- flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
- floating rate — fluctuating exchange rate
- floor furnace — a small self-contained furnace placed just below the floor of the space to be heated.
- floor manager — a person assigned to direct the proceedings on the floor of an assembly, as at a political convention.
- floorcovering — A covering for a floor.
- flower garden — plot for flowers
- flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- 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.
- fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
- 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.
- 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
- fool's errand — a completely absurd, pointless, or useless errand.
- foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
- foramen ovale — the small, oval opening in the wall that separates the atria of the heart in a normal fetus: it allows blood to bypass the nonfunctioning fetal lungs until the time of birth when it gradually closes up
- foraminiferal — Of, pertaining to, or resembling the foraminifers; foraminiferous.
- fore clipping — a word formed by omitting the first part of the form from which it is derived.
- forefeelingly — by way of forefeeling
- foreknowledge — knowledge of something before it exists or happens; prescience: Did you have any foreknowledge of the scheme?
- forge welding — the welding of pieces of hot metal with pressure or blows.
- forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
- fork luncheon — déjeuner à la fourchette.
- fort donelson — Fort Donelson.
- fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
- fortuneteller — a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
- fossil energy — heat energy released by burning fossil fuel
- four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.