13-letter words containing f, e, r, y
- fairy-slipper — Calypso (def 2).
- family circle — the closely related members of a family as a group.
- family credit — (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
- family friend — intimate acquaintance of one's family
- fare-you-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
- fatigue party — a group of soldiers undertaking fatigues
- feature story — a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an individual style. Compare follow-up (def 3b), hard news, news story.
- featurelessly — In a featureless way; without features.
- felony murder — a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
- ferricyanogen — (chemistry) A hexavalent radical, Fe2(CN)12, a compound of cyanogen and iron in the ferric state.
- ferrocyanogen — a ferrocyanide radical
- ferry company — a company that operates a ferry or ferries
- fever therapy — therapy by means of an artificially induced fever.
- field battery — a small unit of usually four field guns
- filterability — The state or condition of being filterable.
- fish hatchery — a facility where fish eggs are hatched and the fry raised, especially to stock lakes, streams, and ponds.
- flatbed lorry — a lorry with a flat platform for its body
- fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
- 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.
- 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.
- foolheartedly — Foolishly. In a foolhardy manner. Without thinking about the consequences.
- forefeelingly — by way of forefeeling
- foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
- formal system — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
- formal theory — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
- forty-eightmo — a book size of about 2½ × 4 inches (6 × 10 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 48 leaves or 96 pages. Abbreviation: 48mo, 48°.
- forty-seventh — next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
- fossil energy — heat energy released by burning fossil fuel
- fourpenny one — a blow, esp with the fist
- fragmentarily — consisting of or reduced to fragments; broken; disconnected; incomplete: fragmentary evidence; fragmentary remains.
- free and easy — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- free delivery — the delivery of mail directly to the recipient's address without charge to the recipient: Before free delivery people had to pick up their mail at the post office or pay a letter carrier to deliver it.
- free enthalpy — a thermodynamic property of a system equal to the difference between its enthalpy and the product of its temperature and its entropy. It is usually measured in joules
- free-and-easy — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- freeze-drying — a process for drying heat-sensitive substances, as foods, blood plasma, antibiotics, and the like, by freezing the substance and then subliming the ice or other frozen solvent in a high vacuum.
- frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
- french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
- french system — a method of spinning in which fibers of extremely short-staple wool are not twisted before being spun.
- friendly fire — Insurance. a fire deliberately set and remaining contained, as in a fireplace or boiler, from which any resulting loss cannot be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to hostile fire).
- frighten away — cause sb/sth to run away
- frighteningly — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
- futurity race — a race for two-year-old horses in which the entries are selected before birth
- ginger family — the plant family Zingiberaceae, characterized by tropical, often aromatic herbaceous plants having rhizomes, long sheathing leaves, and clusters of tubular flowers, and including cardamon, ginger, and turmeric.
- glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
- grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
- gyrofrequency — the frequency of rotation of an electron or other charged particle in a magnetic field, directly proportional to the charge of the particle and to the field strength and inversely proportional to the mass of the particle.