13-letter words containing f, e, t, i, r, s
- index futures — a form of financial futures based on projected movement of a share price index, such as the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Share Index
- inferiorities — Plural form of inferiority.
- informalities — Plural form of informality.
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
- infrared star — a star radiating strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- infringements — Plural form of infringement.
- interest-free — An interest-free loan has no interest charged on it.
- interferences — Plural form of interference.
- interspecific — existing or occurring between species.
- interstratify — to lie in interposed or alternate strata.
- intraspecific — existing or occurring within a species.
- life interest — interest on property that is payable during the owner's lifetime but cannot be passed on to another or others after his or her death.
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- materfamilias — the mother of a family.
- mesne profits — rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
- metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
- microfelsitic — (of a rock) showing evidence of crystallization having begun, but not yet having formed any crystals
- narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
- nectariferous — producing nectar.
- nonesterified — relating to a fatty acid that is not esterified with glycerol to make glyceride
- off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
- one's forties — the ages between 40 and 49
- osteofibrosis — loss of calcium from the bones, causing them to become fragile
- paper profits — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
- paterfamilias — the male head of a household or family, usually the father.
- perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
- perfectionist — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
- petroliferous — containing or yielding petroleum
- photofinisher — a person whose profession is photofinishing
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- platiniferous — platinum-bearing
- pommes frites — French fries
- post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- prefix syntax — prefix notation
- presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
- prescientific — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
- profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
- professoriate — a group of professors.
- quarterfinals — Plural form of quarterfinal.
- quartziferous — consisting of or containing quartz: quartziferous rock.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- reforestation — to replant trees on (land denuded by cutting or fire).
- refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
- reinfestation — the act of infesting; state of being infested.
- relief troops — soldiers sent to an area of conflict or a disaster area in order to provide aid or assistance there
- reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
- retrofittings — acts of retrofitting