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13-letter words containing f, o, r, u, t, e

  • fourth estate — the journalistic profession or its members; the press.
  • fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
  • fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
  • fracture zone — a long, narrow rift on the ocean floor, separating areas of differing depth: where such a zone crosses a mid-ocean ridge, it displaces the ridge by faulting.
  • freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
  • frequentation — the practice of frequenting; habit of visiting often.
  • frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
  • frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
  • fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
  • full throttle — used in the phrase at full throttle, at full speed or with great intensity
  • full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
  • functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
  • garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
  • ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
  • hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
  • hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
  • infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
  • interfunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
  • magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
  • manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
  • metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
  • mother figure — a woman embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the female parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its mother.
  • motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • munroe effect — the reinforcement of shock waves in the concave, hollow end of a shaped charge, producing a greater resultant wave and concentrating the explosion along the axis of the charge.
  • nectariferous — producing nectar.
  • neuroeffector — The junction site, where a motor neuron releases a neurotransmitter to affect a target, that acts like an effector.
  • neurofilament — (anatomy) A neurofibril.
  • ninety-fourth — next after the ninety-third; being the ordinal number for 94.
  • nonfigurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
  • nonforfeiture — Lack of forfeiture; failure to forfeit, or exemption from forfeiting.
  • nonfraudulent — Not fraudulent.
  • old favourite — If you refer to something as an old favourite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
  • open fracture — compound fracture.
  • out of breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
  • out of danger — no longer at risk
  • out of kilter — If one thing is out of kilter with another, the first thing does not agree with or fit in with the second.
  • out of square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • out-of-stater — a visitor from another state of the U.S.: Many out-of-staters come to our summer music festival.
  • out-of-towner — a visitor from another town or city: The World's Fair brought many out-of-towners to New Orleans.
  • out-performed — to surpass in excellence of performance; do better than: a new engine that outperforms the competition; a stock that outperformed all others.
  • outperformers — Plural form of outperformer.
  • outperforming — Present participle of outperform.
  • owl butterfly — any of several South American nymphalid butterflies of the genus Caligo, especially C. eurylochus, having a spot like an owl's eye on each hind wing.
  • parquet floor — flooring made of inlaid wood
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • petroliferous — containing or yielding petroleum
  • platiniferous — platinum-bearing
  • 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.
  • prefiguration — the act of prefiguring.
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