13-letter words containing f, e, t, u
- crosscut file — a file having two intersecting rows of teeth
- culture fluid — the fluid used as a medium for growing microorganisms
- curve fitting — the determination of a curve that fits a specified set of points: The method of least squares is commonly used for curve fitting.
- customer flow — Customer flow is the movement of customers around a store.
- cut-off valve — a valve that terminates the flow of fluid in a system
- death futures — life insurance policies of terminally ill people that are bought speculatively for a lump sum by a company, enabling it to collect the proceeds of the policies when the sufferers die
- deceitfulness — given to deceiving: A deceitful person cannot keep friends for long.
- deed of trust — a written instrument legally conveying property to a trustee, such as a bank, often for the purpose of securing a mortgage or promissory note.
- default route — (networking) A routing table entry which is used to direct packets addressed to hosts or networks not explicitly listed in the routing table.
- demanufacture — A process of recycling that involves the dismantling and/or disassembly of an item to gain the maximum amount of recyclable materials.
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- difficultness — The state or quality of being difficult.
- disaster fund — a fund set up to relieve people or countries afflicted by a disaster
- discontentful — exhibiting a lack of contentment
- disfigurement — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- distastefully — In a distasteful manner.
- distressfully — In a distressful way; showing distress.
- effectualness — The state or condition of being effectual.
- effortfulness — (psychology) subjective experience of exertion or effort involved in performing an activity.
- eigenfunction — Each of a set of independent functions that are the solutions to a given differential equation.
- electric flux — the product of the electric displacement and the area across which it is displaced in an electric field
- equidifferent — equilateral; having differences that are equal
- facetiousness — (uncountable) The state of being facetious.
- facial tissue — a soft, disposable paper tissue especially for cleansing the face or for use as a handkerchief.
- facultatively — In a facultative manner.
- 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.
- fatigue limit — the maximum stress to which a material can be subjected without failing.
- 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.
- fault current — A fault current is a current that results from a fault.
- faultlessness — The quality of being faultless; the absence of faults.
- feature creep — creeping featurism
- feature shock — (jargon) (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
- feature story — a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an individual style. Compare follow-up (def 3b), hard news, news story.
- featurelessly — In a featureless way; without features.
- federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
- ferae naturae — (of animals) wild or undomesticated (distinguished from domitae naturae).
- fermentitious — of a fermenting nature
- ferrotitanium — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent titanium.
- ferrotungsten — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent tungsten.
- feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
- feudalization — to make feudal; bring under the feudal system.
- feuilletonism — The light, entertaining writing style associated with feuilletons.
- feuilletonist — a part of a European newspaper devoted to light literature, fiction, criticism, etc.
- fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
- filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
- filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
- filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster