13-letter words containing f, e, t, a
- bag of waters — a fluid-filled membranous sac in the pregnant uterus that encloses and cushions the fetus, normally breaking at or just before the time of birth; the amnion.
- balance shaft — a shaft in a vehicle engine that is designed to reduce the amount of vibration from other moving parts as it rotates
- balance staff — a pivoted axle or shaft on which the balance is mounted.
- bank transfer — a payment between two bank accounts
- baritone clef — an F clef locating F below middle C on the third line of the staff.
- basement flat — a flat below the ground floor of a building
- basket flower — a composite plant, Centaurea americana, of central U.S. to Mexico, having raylike heads of tubular rose-colored flowers, each surrounded by a whorl of bracts making the flower head appear as if it is set in a basket.
- bat-eared fox — a fox, Vulpes chama, inhabiting dry areas of southern Africa and having large pointed ears, silvery gray coat, and a bushy tail with a black tip.
- battered wife — See under battered woman syndrome.
- bay of plenty — a large bay of the Pacific on the NE coast of the North Island, New Zealand
- beast of prey — any animal that hunts other animals for food
- beatification — a beatifying or being beatified
- beautifulness — having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
- bellefontaine — a city in W Ohio.
- beneficential — relating to beneficence
- beneficiation — the procedure of reducing ores
- benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
- benefit match — a sports match organized to raise money for charity, or for a particular player
- beta function — a function of two variables, usually expressed as an improper integral and equal to the quotient of the product of the values of the gamma function at each variable divided by the value of the gamma function at the sum of the variables.
- blanketflower — a hardy flowering plant, Gaillardia aristata, that grows in the US
- blast furnace — A blast furnace is a large structure in which iron ore is heated under pressure so that it melts and the pure iron metal separates out and can be collected.
- blow the gaff — to divulge a secret
- 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.
- 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.
- butterfly pea — any of several leguminous plants of the genus Clitoria, as C. mariana, of North America, having pale-blue flowers.
- cafe chantant — an intimate cabaret offering sophisticated musical entertainment.
- cafe curtains — short, straight curtains, esp. for covering the lower part of a window, hung from a rod by means of sliding rings
- cage fighting — Cage fighting is a type of organized violent fighting that takes place in an enclosed space.
- calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
- 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
- catch oneself — to hold oneself back abruptly from saying or doing something
- caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
- central falls — a city in NE Rhode Island.
- centrifugally — Away from a centre or axis.
- certification — a document attesting the truth of a fact or statement
- certificatory — Serving to certify something.
- chieftainship — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
- church father — any of the writers on Christian doctrine of the pre-Scholastic period
- claim to fame — Someone's claim to fame is something quite important or interesting that they have done or that is connected with them.
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- coffee klatch — A coffee klatch is a social event at which coffee is served.
- colorfastness — The characteristic of being colorfast.
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- comme il faut — correct or correctly
- common rafter — a rafter having no function other than to bear roofing.
- confarreation — (in ancient Rome) the highest form of marriage, which was marked by the offering of a cake to Jupiter