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13-letter words containing f, i, l, e, n, t

  • festina lente — hasten slowly
  • festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
  • feudalization — to make feudal; bring under the feudal system.
  • feuilletonism — The light, entertaining writing style associated with feuilletons.
  • feuilletonist — a part of a European newspaper devoted to light literature, fiction, criticism, etc.
  • fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
  • fictionalized — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
  • fictionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fictionalize.
  • field captain — a member of a team taking active part in a game who is authorized to make decisions for the team, especially in regard to planning plays, deciding whether to accept penalties called by an official against the opponents, etc.
  • field kitchen — the place at which the food for a unit of soldiers in the field is prepared
  • filamentation — The growth of filaments.
  • file transfer — (networking)   Copying a file from one computer to another over a computer network. See also File Transfer Protocol, Kermit, Network File System, rcp, uucp, XMODEM, ZMODEM.
  • filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
  • filing system — file system
  • fill her tins — to complete a home baking of cakes, biscuits, etc
  • final edition — the last version of a particular issue of a daily newspaper
  • final whistle — sport: whistle indicating end of match
  • finite clause — a clause with a finite verb in its predicate.
  • fishing fleet — the boats used in the fishing industry
  • flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
  • flame cutting — a method of cutting ferrous metals in which the metal is heated by a torch to about 800°C and is oxidized by a stream of oxygen from the torch
  • flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
  • 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 number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
  • 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.
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • foliage plant — any plant grown chiefly for its attractive leaves.
  • fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
  • fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
  • fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
  • fractionalize — Divide (someone or something) into separate groups or parts.
  • fragmentarily — consisting of or reduced to fragments; broken; disconnected; incomplete: fragmentary evidence; fragmentary remains.
  • frank whittle — Sir Frank, 1907–96, English engineer and inventor.
  • franklin tree — a deciduous tree, Franklinia alatamaha, having large, white, fragrant flowers, one of the rarest trees in the world, once native only to Georgia and now known only in cultivation.
  • free-floating — (of an emotional state) lacking an apparent cause, focus, or object; generalized: free-floating hostility.
  • freight plane — an aeroplane used to transport goods
  • friction pile — a pile depending on the friction of surrounding earth for support.
  • frighteningly — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
  • frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
  • fruitlessness — The quality of being fruitless.
  • fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
  • fuel-injected — (of an engine) having fuel injection.
  • functionalise — to make functional.
  • functionalize — to make functional.
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