13-letter words containing f, i, a, t

funambulation — the act of walking on a tightrope; funambulism
functionalise — to make functional.
functionalism — (usually initial capital letter) Chiefly Architecture, Furniture. a design movement evolved from several previous movements or schools in Europe in the early 20th century, advocating the design of buildings, furnishings, etc., as direct fulfillments of material requirements, as for shelter, repose, or the serving of food, with the construction, materials, and purpose clearly expressed or at least not denied, and with aesthetic effect derived chiefly from proportions and finish, purely decorative effects being excluded or greatly subordinated. the doctrines and practices associated with this movement. Compare rationalism (def 4).
functionalist — a person who advocates, or works according to, the principles of functionalism.
functionality — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
functionalize — to make functional.
functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
furniture van — a van designed to move the furniture of a house, office, etc, to another place
fusarium wilt — a disease of plants, characterized by damping-off, wilting, and a brown dry rot, caused by fungi of the genus Fusarium.
fusible metal — any of various alloys, as of bismuth, lead, and tin, that melt at temperatures as low as 160°F (70°C), making them useful in various safety devices.
futilitarians — Plural form of futilitarian.
futurity race — a race for two-year-old horses in which the entries are selected before birth
futurological — Pertaining to futurology.
garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
giant pigfish — a wrass, Achoerodus gouldii, that occurs around the Great Barrier Reef
gill filament — one of the threadlike processes forming the respiratory surface of a gill.
glacial drift — material, as gravel, sand, or clay, transported and deposited by a glacier or by glacial meltwater.
glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
go fly a kite — to move through the air using wings.
graffiti-bomb — Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
grain of salt — salt crystal
gratification — the state of being gratified; great satisfaction.
gravity fault — a fault along an inclined plane in which the upper side or hanging wall appears to have moved downward with respect to the lower side or footwall (opposed to reverse fault).
habit of mind — If someone has a particular habit of mind, they usually think in that particular way.
habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
half the time — If you say that something is the case half the time you mean that it often is the case.
half-digested — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
half-integral — noting or pertaining to a fractional number obtained by dividing an odd integer by two, as 1/2.
half-scottish — Also, Scots. of or relating to Scotland, its people, or their language.
half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
hash function — (programming) A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
heart failure — a condition in which the heart fatally ceases to function.
heavy lifting — hard work: A team of researchers did the heavy lifting for the author.
horrification — That which causes horror.
hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
ichthyofaunal — relating to ichthyofauna
image formats — (graphics, file format) There are many formats used to store images in files. GIF, TIFF and JPEG are very common. Others are BIFF, bmp, Clear, FITS, IFF, NFF, OFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, XBM. Some of these are documented on-line at the following sites:
immunifacient — causing immunity
impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
imperforation — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
import tariff — a tax or duty imposed on imported goods
in default of — If something happens in default of something else, it happens because that other thing does not happen or proves to be impossible.
in good faith — accordance with standards of honesty, trust, sincerity, etc. (usually preceded by in): If you act in good faith, he'll have no reason to question your motives.
in the act of — while committing: crime, transgression
in the pay of — If you say that someone is in the pay of a certain person or group, you disapprove of the fact that they are being paid by and are working for that person or group, often secretly or illegally.
in the way of — similar to, like
indefatigable — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
indefatigably — In an extremely persistent and untiring manner; in an indefatigable manner.
ineffectually — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
inertia force — an imaginary force supposed to act upon an accelerated body, equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the resultant of the real forces

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