13-letter words containing f, e, t
- flame-thrower — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
- flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
- flannel-mouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- flat-bottomed — (of boats) having a flat bottom.
- flatbed lorry — a lorry with a flat platform for its body
- flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
- flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
- fleet admiral — the highest ranking naval officer, ranking next above admiral.
- fleet air arm — the aviation branch of the Royal Navy
- flemish giant — one of a breed of large domestic rabbits of Belgian origin, having a solid gray, white, or black coat, and raised for its meat and fur.
- flight leader — a pilot who commands a flight of military airplanes.
- flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
- float chamber — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
- floatcut file — file with rows of parallel teeth
- floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
- floating rate — fluctuating exchange rate
- floating vote — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
- flog to death — to persuade a person so persistently of the value of (an idea or venture) that he or she loses interest in it
- flower beetle — any of numerous, usually brightly colored beetles, as of the families Malachiidae and Dasytidae, that live on flowers and are predaceous on other insects.
- 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.
- flying picket — (in industrial disputes) a member of a group of pickets organized to be able to move quickly from place to place
- flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
- fn tunnelling — Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling
- foerstner bit — a bit for drilling blind holes, guided from the rim rather than from the center to permit it to enter the wood at an oblique angle.
- foliage plant — any plant grown chiefly for its attractive leaves.
- follicle mite — any mite of the family Demodicidae, parasitic in hair follicles of various mammals, including humans.
- fonctionnaire — a civil servant
- fons et origo — the source and origin
- fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
- food additive — additive (def 4).
- 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.
- foolheartedly — Foolishly. In a foolhardy manner. Without thinking about the consequences.
- foot the bill — pay the costs
- football game — soccer match
- footing piece — one of a series of horizontal transverse timbers supporting a platform or staging.
- for one thing — the first reason is
- for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- for the world — If you say that you would not do something for the world, you are emphasizing that you definitely would not do it.
- for the worse — into a less desirable or inferior state or condition
- for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- foreign agent — a spy for a foreign country