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13-letter words containing f, l, u, t, e

  • filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
  • finite clause — a clause with a finite verb in its predicate.
  • 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.
  • flag of truce — a white flag displayed as an invitation to the enemy to confer, or carried as a sign of peaceful intention by one sent to deal with the enemy.
  • 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
  • flannel-mouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
  • flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
  • flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
  • floatcut file — file with rows of parallel teeth
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
  • 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.
  • fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
  • fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
  • fluoroacetate — a toxic chemical compound, C2H2FNaO2, occurring naturally in certain plants, and commonly used as rat poison
  • flutter wheel — a waterwheel at the bottom of a chute, turned by the falling water.
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • fn tunnelling — Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling
  • fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
  • forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
  • fort moultrie — William, 1730–1805, U.S. general.
  • fortuneteller — a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
  • foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
  • 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.
  • full sentence — any sentence the form of which exemplifies the most frequently used structural pattern of a particular language, as, in English, any sentence that contains a subject and a predicate; a sentence from which elliptical sentences may be derived by grammatical transformations.
  • full throttle — used in the phrase at full throttle, at full speed or with great intensity
  • full-bottomed — (of a wig) long at the back
  • full-strength — If a team or army is at full strength, all the members that it needs or usually has are present.
  • full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
  • functionalise — to make functional.
  • functionalize — to make functional.
  • fundamentally — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • funemployment — the condition of a person who enjoys being out of work
  • fusible metal — any of various alloys, as of bismuth, lead, and tin, that melt at temperatures as low as 160°F (70°C), making them useful in various safety devices.
  • futtock plate — a metal plate placed perpendicular to the top of a ship's lower mast to hold the futtock shrouds.
  • gefullte fish — dish of fish stuffed with various ingredients
  • genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
  • half-educated — having undergone education: educated people.
  • half-quartern — a loaf having a weight, when baked, of 800 g
  • healthfulness — conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet.
  • heart failure — a condition in which the heart fatally ceases to function.
  • hubble effect — redshift
  • hunting rifle — shotgun used to kill game
  • impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
  • in default of — If something happens in default of something else, it happens because that other thing does not happen or proves to be impossible.
  • ineffectually — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
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