13-letter words containing f, e
- anti-feminism — the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
- anti-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.
- antifertility — acting to suppress fertility or as a contraceptive
- antiforeigner — opposed to foreigners or foreign countries
- antiinfection — Preventing or counteracting infection.
- antiinfective — Antiinfection.
- antireflexive — noting a relation in which no element is in relation to itself, as “less than.”.
- antireformers — Plural form of antireformer.
- any number of — several or many
- anywhere from — any quantity, time, degree, etc, above a specified limit
- aperitif-wine — a small drink of alcoholic liquor taken to stimulate the appetite before a meal.
- apoplectiform — of or resembling apoplexy or stroke.
- apple fritter — a piece of apple covered in batter and deep fried
- apple of peru — a plant, Nicandra physalodes, of the nightshade family, having large blue flowers.
- arable farmer — a farmer who grows arable crops
- argentiferous — containing or bearing silver
- argilliferous — containing or yielding clay
- artificialize — to render artificial
- aschaffenburg — a city in Germany, on the River Main in Bavaria: seat of the Imperial Diet (1447); ceded to Bavaria in 1814. Pop: 68 607 (2003 est)
- assault rifle — a firearm that is capable of firing multiple rounds in a very short period
- at face value — If you take something at face value, you accept it and believe it without thinking about it very much, even though it might be untrue.
- at knifepoint — If you are attacked or robbed at knifepoint, someone threatens you with a knife while they attack or steal from you.
- at the fiddle — engaged in an illegal or fraudulent undertaking
- attested form — a linguistic form that can be shown to be in use or in written records
- autoinfection — infection by a pathogenic agent already within the body or infection transferred from one part of the body to another
- aviation fuel — fuel used to power airplanes
- bachelor flat — a flat lived in, or intended for a bachelor
- bag of waters — a fluid-filled membranous sac in the pregnant uterus that encloses and cushions the fetus, normally breaking at or just before the time of birth; the amnion.
- balance shaft — a shaft in a vehicle engine that is designed to reduce the amount of vibration from other moving parts as it rotates
- balance staff — a pivoted axle or shaft on which the balance is mounted.
- balanced fund — a mutual fund made up of both stocks and bonds
- balloon frame — a wooden building frame composed of machine-sawed scantlings fastened with nails, having studs rising the full height of the frame with the joists nailed to the studs and supported by sills or by ribbons let into the studs.
- balsamiferous — yielding or producing balsam
- bank of issue — a bank, as a Federal Reserve Bank, empowered by a government to issue currency.
- bank transfer — a payment between two bank accounts
- barefacedness — The state or quality of being barefaced.
- bargain offer — something for sale at a low price
- baritone clef — an F clef locating F below middle C on the third line of the staff.
- baron of beef — a cut of beef consisting of a double sirloin joined at the backbone
- basement flat — a flat below the ground floor of a building
- basket flower — a composite plant, Centaurea americana, of central U.S. to Mexico, having raylike heads of tubular rose-colored flowers, each surrounded by a whorl of bracts making the flower head appear as if it is set in a basket.
- bat-eared fox — a fox, Vulpes chama, inhabiting dry areas of southern Africa and having large pointed ears, silvery gray coat, and a bushy tail with a black tip.
- battered wife — See under battered woman syndrome.
- bay of bengal — a wide arm of the Indian Ocean, between India and Myanmar
- bay of naples — an inlet of the Tyrrhenian Sea in the SW coast of Italy
- bay of plenty — a large bay of the Pacific on the NE coast of the North Island, New Zealand
- bbn butterfly — (computer) A supercomputer developed at BBN Technologies, named after the "butterfly" multi-stage switching network around which it was built. It could have up to 512 CPUs connected to allow every CPU access to every other CPU's memory, albeit with about 15 times the latency than for its own. The earlier GP-1000 models used up to 256 Motorola 68020s. The later TC-2000 models used up to 512 Motorola 88100s. Language developed for, or ported to, the BBN Butterfly were Butterfly Common LISP, Butterfly Scheme, Delirium, and MultiScheme.
- be better off — If you say that someone would be better off doing something, you are advising them to do it or expressing the opinion that it would benefit them to do it.
- be muffled up — If you are muffled up, you are wearing a lot of heavy clothes so that very little of your body or face is visible.
- be one's life — If you say that something or someone is your life, you are emphasizing that they are extremely important to you.