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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-flatteryCape, 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
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