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13-letter words containing f, e, s, t, o

  • facetiousness — (uncountable) The state of being facetious.
  • factory-fresh — coming directly from the factory; brand new
  • facts of life — any aspect of human existence that must be acknowledged or regarded as unalterable: Old age is a fact of life.
  • fashion plate — a person who consistently wears the latest style in dress.
  • fast dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another, merging the two scenes imperceptibly
  • fast follower — a company that is quick to pick up good new ideas from other companies
  • 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.
  • feast of lots — Purim.
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • 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.
  • feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
  • felicitations — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
  • fermentations — Plural form of fermentation.
  • fermentitious — of a fermenting nature
  • ferrotungsten — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent tungsten.
  • fertilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of 'fertilization'.
  • festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
  • festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
  • fetishization — The act or process of fetishizing.
  • feuilletonism — The light, entertaining writing style associated with feuilletons.
  • feuilletonist — a part of a European newspaper devoted to light literature, fiction, criticism, etc.
  • fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
  • fictionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fictionalize.
  • filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
  • firing stroke — The firing stroke is the stroke of an engine in which the fuel is burned and energy sent to the piston.
  • first edition — the whole number of copies of a literary work printed first, from the same type, and issued together.
  • first officer — first mate.
  • first peoples — any of the indigenous peoples or Indian communities of Canada, especially one formally recognized by the Canadian government.
  • flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
  • flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
  • fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 the worse — into a less desirable or inferior state or condition
  • for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
  • foreshortened — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten.
  • foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
  • foresightless — lacking foresight
  • forest ranger — any of the officers employed by the government to supervise the care and preservation of forests, especially public forests.
  • forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
  • forgottenness — the status of being forgotten
  • 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
  • fort donelson — Fort Donelson.
  • fort duquesne — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1610–88, French naval commander.
  • fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
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