13-letter words containing f, e, t, a
- father figure — a man embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the male parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its father.
- father lasher — a large sea scorpion, Myoxocephalus scorpius, occurring in British and European coastal waters
- father-in-law — the father of one's husband or wife.
- fatigableness — the quality of being fatigable
- fatigue limit — the maximum stress to which a material can be subjected without failing.
- fatigue party — a group of soldiers undertaking fatigues
- fatigue ratio — the ratio between the fatigue limit and the tensile strength of a material.
- fault breccia — angular rock fragments produced by fracture and grinding during faulting and distributed within or adjacent to the fault plane.
- fault current — A fault current is a current that results from a fault.
- faultlessness — The quality of being faultless; the absence of faults.
- feasibilities — Plural form of feasibility.
- feast of lots — Purim.
- feather grass — any American grass of the genus Stipa, having a feathery appendage.
- feather tract — pteryla.
- featherbedded — Simple past tense and past participle of featherbed.
- featherbrains — Plural form of featherbrain.
- featherheaded — featherbrain.
- featherstitch — an embroidery stitch producing work in which a succession of branches extend alternately on each side of a central stem.
- featherweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a bantamweight and a lightweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 126 pounds (57 kg).
- feature creep — creeping featurism
- 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.
- featurelessly — In a featureless way; without features.
- febrifacients — Plural form of febrifacient.
- federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
- feeder stream — a tributary that feeds into a larger river, canal, etc
- feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
- felicitations — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
- fellow inmate — sb in same prison
- female thread — a helical groove in a cylindrical hole formed by a tap or lathe tool
- fencing match — a match between fencers
- ferae naturae — (of animals) wild or undomesticated (distinguished from domitae naturae).
- fermentations — Plural form of fermentation.
- ferret badger — any of several small omnivores of the genus Melogale, of southern and eastern Asia, having a bushy tail and distinctive white or yellow markings on a black face.
- ferrimagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as a ferrite, in which the magnetic moments of some neighboring atoms point in opposite directions, with a net magnetization still resulting because of differences in magnitudes of the opposite moments.
- ferromagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
- ferrotitanium — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent titanium.
- fertilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of 'fertilization'.
- fertilization — an act, process, or instance of fertilizing.
- festina lente — hasten slowly
- festival hall — a concert hall in London, on the South Bank of the Thames: constructed for the 1951 Festival of Britain; completed 1964–65
- festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
- feta (cheese) — a soft, white cheese first made in Greece
- fetishization — The act or process of fetishizing.
- feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
- feudalization — to make feudal; bring under the feudal system.
- fever therapy — therapy by means of an artificially induced fever.
- fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
- fictionalized — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
- fictionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fictionalize.