13-letter words containing f, e, r, t
- bottom feeder — a fish that feeds on material at the bottom of a river, lake, sea, etc
- breakfast bar — a counter in a kitchen where people can sit and have breakfast
- breakfast set — a set of plates, bowls, eggcups, etc, specially designed to be used at breakfast
- brief against — If someone, especially a politician, briefs against another person, he or she tries to harm the other person's reputation by saying something unfavourable about them.
- bring to life — to bring back to consciousness
- buffet supper — supper at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
- buoyant force — the law that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force (buoyant force) equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.
- butcher knife — a large, very sharp knife for cutting or trimming meat.
- butterfingers — a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
- butterfly net — a lightweight, fine net on the end of a pole used for catching butterflies
- butterfly nut — wing nut.
- butterfly pea — any of several leguminous plants of the genus Clitoria, as C. mariana, of North America, having pale-blue flowers.
- butterflyfish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
- cafe curtains — short, straight curtains, esp. for covering the lower part of a window, hung from a rod by means of sliding rings
- calorifacient — (of foods) producing heat.
- cape-flattery — Cape, a cape in NW Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula, at the entrance to Juan de Fuca Strait.
- carbon offset — a compensatory measure made by an individual or company for carbon emissions, usually through sponsoring activities or projects which increase carbon dioxide absorption, such as tree planting
- caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
- centerfielder — (baseball) A player in the centerfield position.
- central falls — a city in NE Rhode Island.
- centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
- centrifugence — the property of being centrifugal
- certification — a document attesting the truth of a fact or statement
- certificatory — Serving to certify something.
- chest freezer — a freezer shaped like a chest with a door that opens by lifting up
- chesterfields — Plural form of chesterfield.
- church father — any of the writers on Christian doctrine of the pre-Scholastic period
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- coffee filter — a paper filter used when making coffee
- colorfastness — The characteristic of being colorfast.
- colour filter — a thin layer of coloured gelatine, glass, etc, that transmits light of certain colours or wavelengths but considerably reduces the transmission of others
- come to grief — If something comes to grief, it fails. If someone comes to grief, they fail in something they are doing, and may be hurt.
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- common rafter — a rafter having no function other than to bear roofing.
- computer file — file
- confarreation — (in ancient Rome) the highest form of marriage, which was marked by the offering of a cake to Jupiter
- confectionary — a place where confections are kept or made
- confectioners — Plural form of confectioner.
- confectionery — Confectionery is sweets and chocolates.
- confederating — Present participle of confederate.
- confederation — A confederation is an organization or group consisting of smaller groups or states, especially one that exists for business or political purposes.
- confederative — of confederates or a confederation
- configurative — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
- conflagrative — That produces conflagration.
- confraternity — a group of men united for some particular purpose, esp Christian laymen organized for religious or charitable service; brotherhood
- confrontative — tending toward or ready for confrontation: They came to the meeting with a confrontational attitude.
- coniferophyte — (biology) conifer.
- contrafactive — Denoting a verb that assigns to its object (normally a clausal object) the status of not being true, e.g., pretend and wish.
- control freak — If you say that someone is a control freak, you mean that they want to be in control of every situation they find themselves in.
- copper-fasten — to make (a bargain or agreement) binding