13-letter words containing f, e, t, l
- shiftlessness — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
- show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
- single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- slatted floor — a floor made with slats of wood so that water can drain away
- slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
- small fortune — a large sum of money
- soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
- special staff — all staff officers assigned to headquarters of a division or higher unit who are not members of the general staff or personal staff.
- splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
- staff college — a training centre for executive military personnel
- staff of life — bread, considered as the mainstay of the human diet.
- stanley falls — series of seven cataracts of the upper Congo River, just south of Kisangani
- stanley knife — A Stanley knife is a very sharp knife that is used to cut materials such as carpet and paper. It consists of a small blade fixed in the end of a handle.
- state funeral — a ceremonial funeral for a head of state, or other very important person
- state of play — current situation
- stoloniferous — producing or bearing stolons.
- stress relief — Stress relief involves removing stresses in a material, usually by heating it to a temperature at which it can deform easily.
- sulfate paper — paper made from sulfate pulp.
- sulfathiazole — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 9 H 9 N 3 O 2 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of pneumonia and staphylococcal infections, but now largely replaced because of its toxicity.
- sulfite paper — paper made from sulfite pulp.
- sulfonmethane — a colorless, crystalline compound, C7H16O4S2, used in medicine as a soporific and hypnotic
- superfluidity — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
- surface plate — Machinery. a flat plate used by machinists for testing surfaces that are to be made perfectly flat.
- tablespoonful — the amount a tablespoon can hold.
- take leave of — to say goodbye to
- take the fall — to be blamed, punished, or imprisoned
- tale of genji — a novel (1001–20?) by Lady Murasaki, dealing with Japanese court life.
- talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
- tassel flower — love-lies-bleeding.
- teasel family — the plant family Dipsacaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having opposite or whorled leaves, dense flower heads surrounded by an involucre, and small, dry fruit, and including the scabious and teasel.
- telefacsimile — facsimile (def 2).
- telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
- teofilo otoni — a city in E central Brazil.
- tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
- the afflicted — afflicted people considered collectively
- the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
- the beautiful — the quality of beauty
- the cup final — the annual final of the FA Cup soccer competition, played at Wembley, or the Scottish Cup, played at Hampden Park
- the fast lane — If you say that someone lives their life in the fast lane, you mean that they live in a way which seems full of activity and excitement but which often involves a lot of pressure.
- the following — the one or ones to be mentioned immediately
- the good life — If you say that someone is living the good life, you mean that they are living in comfort and luxury with few problems or worries.
- the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
- think less of — to have a lower opinion of
- threefoldness — the state or condition of being threefold
- transfer list — In football, a transfer list is a list of players at a club who may be sold to other clubs.
- transferrable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- transformable — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transfusively — in a transfusive manner
- triple figure — a number made up of three digits.
- tunnel effect — Physics. a quantum-mechanical process by which a particle can pass through a potential energy barrier that is higher than the energy of the particle: first postulated to explain the escape of alpha particles from atomic nuclei.