13-letter words containing f, e, t, o, r, s
- home comforts — things in a house that make it comfortable
- horsefeathers — (used with a singular or plural verb) something not worth considering.
- image formats — (graphics, file format) There are many formats used to store images in files. GIF, TIFF and JPEG are very common. Others are BIFF, bmp, Clear, FITS, IFF, NFF, OFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, XBM. Some of these are documented on-line at the following sites:
- imperfections — A fault, blemish, or undesirable feature.
- in respect of — with regard, with reference
- inferiorities — Plural form of inferiority.
- informalities — Plural form of informality.
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
- jeffersontown — a town in N Kentucky.
- kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
- leapfrog test — a diagnostic technique using arithmetic or logical operations in a routine to manage the capacity of storage media, transfer data, and check the results.
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
- magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
- make sport of — to mock or ridicule; poke fun at
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- market forces — factors driving the economy
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- 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
- of all others — above all others
- off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
- olfactometers — Plural form of olfactometer.
- one's forties — the ages between 40 and 49
- orate fratres — the call to prayer, addressed by the celebrant of the Mass to the people just before the Secret.
- osteofibrosis — loss of calcium from the bones, causing them to become fragile
- otto of roses — rose oil.
- out of square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- out-of-stater — a visitor from another state of the U.S.: Many out-of-staters come to our summer music festival.
- outperformers — Plural form of outperformer.
- paper profits — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
- perfect storm — a detrimental or calamitous situation or event arising from the powerful combined effect of a unique set of circumstances: a perfect storm battering corporate pension plans.
- 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
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- 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.
- profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
- professoriate — a group of professors.
- quartziferous — consisting of or containing quartz: quartziferous rock.
- recomfortless — having no comfort; comfortless
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- reforestation — to replant trees on (land denuded by cutting or fire).