13-letter words containing f, l, e, t, s
- fashion plate — a person who consistently wears the latest style in dress.
- fast dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another, merging the two scenes imperceptibly
- fast follower — a company that is quick to pick up good new ideas from other companies
- fast telegram — a type of domestic telegram sent at full rate with a minimum charge for 10 words or less and accepted for immediate delivery.
- fat electrons — (electronics, humour) Old-time hacker David Cargill's theory on the cause of computer glitches. Your typical electricity company draws its line current out of the big generators with a pair of coil taps located near the top of the dynamo. When the normal tap brushes get dirty, they take them off line to clean them up, and use special auxiliary taps on the *bottom* of the coil. Now, this is a problem, because when they do that they get not ordinary or "thin" electrons, but the fat sloppy electrons that are heavier and so settle to the bottom of the generator. These flow down ordinary wires just fine, but when they have to turn a sharp corner (as in an integrated-circuit via), they're apt to get stuck. This is what causes computer glitches. Compare bogon, magic smoke.
- father lasher — a large sea scorpion, Myoxocephalus scorpius, occurring in British and European coastal waters
- fatigableness — the quality of being fatigable
- faultlessness — The quality of being faultless; the absence of faults.
- feasibilities — Plural form of feasibility.
- feast of lots — Purim.
- featurelessly — In a featureless way; without features.
- fee-splitting — the practice of dividing a fee for professional services between two professional persons, as between a referring doctor and a specialist, without the knowledge of the client.
- feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
- felicitations — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
- fertilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of 'fertilization'.
- festina lente — hasten slowly
- festival hall — a concert hall in London, on the South Bank of the Thames: constructed for the 1951 Festival of Britain; completed 1964–65
- festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
- festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
- feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
- feuilletonism — The light, entertaining writing style associated with feuilletons.
- feuilletonist — a part of a European newspaper devoted to light literature, fiction, criticism, etc.
- fever blister — cold sore.
- fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
- fictionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fictionalize.
- fiddlesticks! — an expression of annoyance or disagreement
- fieldstripped — Simple past tense and past participle of fieldstrip.
- 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.
- filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
- filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
- filing system — file system
- fill her tins — to complete a home baking of cakes, biscuits, etc
- film festival — a festival devoted to film
- final whistle — sport: whistle indicating end of match
- finite clause — a clause with a finite verb in its predicate.
- first peoples — any of the indigenous peoples or Indian communities of Canada, especially one formally recognized by the Canadian government.
- 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.
- fishing fleet — the boats used in the fishing industry
- flabbergasted — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flabbergaster — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
- flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
- 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.
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
- fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.