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13-letter words containing f, i, e, r, s, t

  • filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
  • fill her tins — to complete a home baking of cakes, biscuits, etc
  • fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour)   A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
  • fireside chat — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
  • firing stroke — The firing stroke is the stroke of an engine in which the fuel is burned and energy sent to the piston.
  • first baseman — the player whose position is first base.
  • first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
  • first edition — the whole number of copies of a literary work printed first, from the same type, and issued together.
  • first officer — first mate.
  • first peoples — any of the indigenous peoples or Indian communities of Canada, especially one formally recognized by the Canadian government.
  • 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 reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.
  • 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.
  • first-nighter — a person who often or usually attends the theater, opera, etc., on opening night.
  • fish hatchery — a facility where fish eggs are hatched and the fry raised, especially to stock lakes, streams, and ponds.
  • flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
  • flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • 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.
  • fons et origo — the source and origin
  • 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.
  • 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-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
  • foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
  • foresightless — lacking foresight
  • fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
  • fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
  • foster sister — a girl brought up with another child of different parents.
  • fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
  • fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
  • franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • free-spirited — characterized by independence and unconventionality
  • free-standing — A free-standing piece of furniture or other object is not fixed to anything, or stands on its own away from other things.
  • freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
  • frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
  • frontier post — an official point where people or vehicles cross over a border between countries
  • frontispieces — Plural form of frontispiece.
  • frontogenesis — the formation or increase of a front or frontal zone.
  • fruitlessness — The quality of being fruitless.
  • frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
  • functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
  • garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
  • get rid of sb — If you get rid of someone who is causing problems for you or who you do not like, you do something to prevent them affecting you any more, for example by making them leave.
  • hertfordshire — a county in SE England. 631 sq. mi. (1635 sq. km).
  • 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:
  • imperfections — A fault, blemish, or undesirable feature.
  • imperfectives — Plural form of imperfective.
  • imperfectness — of, relating to, or characterized by defects or weaknesses: imperfect vision.
  • in respect of — with regard, with reference
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