13-letter words containing f, e, t, r, i
- digital frame — a picture frame containing an LCD screen that is used to display digital photos: Download pictures to your digital frame directly from your camera's memory card.
- disafforested — Simple past tense and past participle of disafforest.
- disaster fund — a fund set up to relieve people or countries afflicted by a disaster
- disfigurement — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- distress flag — any flag flown by a vessel to show that it is in distress, as an ensign flown at half-mast or upside down.
- distressfully — In a distressful way; showing distress.
- doppler shift — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
- draft version — a preliminary version
- ear infection — an infection that affects the ear
- electric fire — a device that provides heat for a room from an incandescent electric element
- electric flux — the product of the electric displacement and the area across which it is displaced in an electric field
- enteric fever — typhoid
- epping forest — a forest in E England, northeast of London: formerly a royal hunting ground
- equidifferent — equilateral; having differences that are equal
- extrafamilial — Outside a family.
- fabric filter — A fabric filter is a type of filter in which solids are removed from a gas by passing it though a fabric.
- factory price — the price quoted for manufactured goods for pickup at the gate of a factory, before certain handling, shipping, and similar costs.
- faint-hearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
- fairly-traded — bought from the producer at a guaranteed price
- familiarities — Plural form of familiarity.
- family credit — (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
- farther india — a peninsula in SE Asia, between India and China: consists of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Malaysia
- fast-breaking — (of a news story) occurring suddenly, and often portending a series of events or further developments in rapid succession.
- 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-in-law — the father of one's husband or wife.
- 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.
- featherbrains — Plural form of 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).
- febrifacients — Plural form of febrifacient.
- fermentations — Plural form of fermentation.
- fermentitious — of a fermenting nature
- 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.
- ferroelectric — pertaining to a substance that possesses spontaneous electric polarization such that the polarization can be reversed by an electric field.
- 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.
- festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
- festschriften — Plural form of festschrift.
- fever blister — cold sore.
- field battery — a small unit of usually four field guns
- field cricket — any of several jumping, orthopterous insects of the family Gryllidae, characterized by long antennae and stridulating organs on the forewings of the male, as one of the species commonly found in pastures and meadows (field cricket) or on trees and shrubs (tree cricket)
- fieldstripped — Simple past tense and past participle of fieldstrip.
- fighter pilot — sb who pilots a bomber plane
- file transfer — (networking) Copying a file from one computer to another over a computer network. See also File Transfer Protocol, Kermit, Network File System, rcp, uucp, XMODEM, ZMODEM.
- filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.