13-letter words containing f, i, n, s
- monofilaments — Plural form of monofilament.
- montefiascone — a town in central Italy: wine-growing area.
- mystification — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
- nectariferous — producing nectar.
- nefariousness — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- neurofibromas — Plural form of neurofibroma.
- new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
- niagara falls — the falls of the Niagara River: in Canada, the Horseshoe Falls, 158 feet (48 meters) high; 2600 feet (792 meters) wide; in the U.S., American Falls, 167 feet (51 meters) high; 1000 feet (305 meters) wide.
- nickeliferous — containing or yielding nickel.
- non-defensive — serving to defend; protective: defensive armament.
- non-offensive — causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
- nonclassified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
- nonconfession — The absence of a confession, or the refusal to confess.
- nonconformism — The refusal to conform to common standards, conventions, rules, traditions or laws.
- nonconformist — a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
- nonconiferous — Not coniferous.
- nondiffusible — not diffusible
- nonesterified — relating to a fatty acid that is not esterified with glycerol to make glyceride
- nonfatalities — Plural form of nonfatality.
- noninfectious — (of a disease or disease-causing organism) not liable to be transmitted through the environment.
- nonscientific — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
- notifications — Plural form of notification.
- nurse-midwife — a nurse skilled in assisting women in the prenatal period and in childbirth, especially at home or in another nonhospital setting.
- ocean sunfish — a brown and gray mola, Mola mola, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having the posterior half of the body sharply truncated behind the elongated dorsal and anal fins.
- off soundings — in waters more than 100 fathoms in depth
- offensiveness — causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying: offensive television commercials.
- officiousness — objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
- old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
- olefin series — alkene series.
- on-off switch — electrical or electronic device: control knob
- one's forties — the ages between 40 and 49
- ossifications — Plural form of ossification.
- passion fruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- 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.
- 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.
- photofinisher — a person whose profession is photofinishing
- platiniferous — platinum-bearing
- point of sale — the store, dealer, or other retail outlet where an item is sold: from manufacturer to point-of-sale.
- point-of-sale — the store, dealer, or other retail outlet where an item is sold: from manufacturer to point-of-sale.
- polliniferous — Botany. producing or bearing pollen.
- pontificators — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- 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.
- port of spain — (used with a plural verb) two islands in the N Atlantic Ocean, off the NE coast of Venezuela.
- port-of-spain — (used with a plural verb) two islands in the N Atlantic Ocean, off the NE coast of Venezuela.
- post feminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- post-feminism — a way of thinking that develops, or reacts to or against previous feminist ideology
- post-feminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- 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.