13-letter words containing f, i, e, r, s
- nefariousness — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- neurofibromas — Plural form of neurofibroma.
- nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
- nonconiferous — Not coniferous.
- nonesterified — relating to a fatty acid that is not esterified with glycerol to make glyceride
- nurse-midwife — a nurse skilled in assisting women in the prenatal period and in childbirth, especially at home or in another nonhospital setting.
- odoriferously — In an odoriferous manner.
- off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
- off-side rule — A lexical convention due to Landin, allowing the scope of declarations in a program to be expressed by indentation. Any non-whitespace token to the left of the first such token on the previous line is taken to be the start of a new declaration. Used in, for example, Miranda and Haskell.
- office seeker — a person who seeks appointment or election to some government position.
- officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
- olefin series — alkene series.
- one's forties — the ages between 40 and 49
- osteofibrosis — loss of calcium from the bones, causing them to become fragile
- over-effusive — unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person.
- paper profits — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
- paradise fish — any small freshwater fish of the genus Macropodus, of southeastern Asia, often kept in aquariums.
- passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
- paterfamilias — the male head of a household or family, usually the father.
- perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
- perfectionist — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
- petroliferous — containing or yielding petroleum
- photofinisher — a person whose profession is photofinishing
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- platiniferous — platinum-bearing
- polliniferous — Botany. producing or bearing pollen.
- pommes frites — French fries
- porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- post-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.
- prefix syntax — prefix notation
- presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
- prescientific — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
- press of sail — as much sail as the wind or other conditions will permit a ship to carry.
- press officer — A press officer is a person who is employed by an organization to give information about that organization to the press.
- profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
- professoriate — a group of professors.
- professorship — the office or post of a professor.
- proliferously — by proliferation
- quarterfinals — Plural form of quarterfinal.
- quartziferous — consisting of or containing quartz: quartziferous rock.
- quasi-federal — pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in federal government; federal system.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- reflexiveness — Grammar. (of a verb) taking a subject and object with identical referents, as shave in I shave myself. (of a pronoun) used as an object to refer to the subject of a verb, as myself in I shave myself.
- reforestation — to replant trees on (land denuded by cutting or fire).
- refried beans — fried mashed beans
- refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
- reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
- reinfestation — the act of infesting; state of being infested.
- relief troops — soldiers sent to an area of conflict or a disaster area in order to provide aid or assistance there
- reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles