13-letter words containing f, e, t, u
- fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour) A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
- finger buffet — a buffet meal at which food that may be picked up with the fingers (finger food), such as canapés or vol-au-vents, is served
- finger puppet — a miniature puppet fitting over and manipulated by one finger.
- finite clause — a clause with a finite verb in its predicate.
- first quarter — the instant, approximately one week after a new moon, when one half of the moon's disk is illuminated by the sun.
- first refusal — If someone has first refusal on something that is being sold or offered, they have the right to decide whether or not to buy it or take it before it is offered to anyone else.
- flag of truce — a white flag displayed as an invitation to the enemy to confer, or carried as a sign of peaceful intention by one sent to deal with the enemy.
- flame cutting — a method of cutting ferrous metals in which the metal is heated by a torch to about 800°C and is oxidized by a stream of oxygen from the torch
- flannel-mouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
- flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
- floatcut file — file with rows of parallel teeth
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
- flunitrazepam — a powerful benzodiazepine sedative, C 16 H 12 FN 3 O 3 , that causes semiconsciousness and memory blackouts: has been implicated in date rapes and is illegal in the U.S.
- fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
- fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
- fluoroacetate — a toxic chemical compound, C2H2FNaO2, occurring naturally in certain plants, and commonly used as rat poison
- flutter wheel — a waterwheel at the bottom of a chute, turned by the falling water.
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- fn tunnelling — Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling
- fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
- food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
- forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
- forked tongue — lying or deceitful talk
- fort duquesne — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1610–88, French naval commander.
- fort moultrie — William, 1730–1805, U.S. general.
- fortunateness — The quality of being fortunate; fortune; luck.
- fortuneteller — a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
- foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
- fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
- fourth estate — the journalistic profession or its members; the press.
- fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
- fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- fracture zone — a long, narrow rift on the ocean floor, separating areas of differing depth: where such a zone crosses a mid-ocean ridge, it displaces the ridge by faulting.
- freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
- frequentation — the practice of frequenting; habit of visiting often.
- frequentative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing repetition of an action.
- frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
- fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
- fruitlessness — The quality of being fruitless.
- frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
- frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
- fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
- fuel-injected — (of an engine) having fuel injection.
- fuerteventura — a Spanish island off the NW coast of Africa, one of the Canary Islands. 641 sq. mi. (1660 sq. km).
- full sentence — any sentence the form of which exemplifies the most frequently used structural pattern of a particular language, as, in English, any sentence that contains a subject and a predicate; a sentence from which elliptical sentences may be derived by grammatical transformations.
- full throttle — used in the phrase at full throttle, at full speed or with great intensity
- full-bottomed — (of a wig) long at the back