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13-letter words containing f, o, r

  • fantin-latour — (Ignace) Henri (Joseph Théodore) [ee-nyas ahn-ree zhaw-zef tey-aw-dawr] /iˈnyas ɑ̃ˈri ʒɔˈzɛf teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1836–1904, French painter.
  • fare-you-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
  • farm labourer — a person engaged in physical work on a farm
  • farm-to-table — noting or relating to fresh, locally sourced food sold to local consumers or restaurants: farm-to-table meats and seasonal vegetables.
  • faroe islands — islands in Atlantic Ocean
  • fashionmonger — (derogatory) One who slavishly follows the latest fashions.
  • fast follower — a company that is quick to pick up good new ideas from other companies
  • 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.
  • fatigue ratio — the ratio between the fatigue limit and the tensile strength of a material.
  • favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
  • fearmongering — The action of deliberately arousing public fear or alarm about a particular issue.
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • feature story — a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an individual style. Compare follow-up (def 3b), hard news, news story.
  • federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
  • feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
  • feeder school — a junior school whose pupils go to a specific secondary school
  • fellow member — someone who is a member of the same organization or society as you
  • fellow worker — someone you work with
  • felony murder — a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
  • fermentations — Plural form of fermentation.
  • fermentitious — of a fermenting nature
  • ferociousness — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
  • ferricyanogen — (chemistry) A hexavalent radical, Fe2(CN)12, a compound of cyanogen and iron in the ferric state.
  • ferroaluminum — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent aluminum.
  • ferrochromium — a ferroalloy containing up to 70 percent chromium.
  • ferroconcrete — reinforced concrete.
  • ferrocyanogen — a ferrocyanide radical
  • ferroelectric — pertaining to a substance that possesses spontaneous electric polarization such that the polarization can be reversed by an electric field.
  • ferromagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
  • ferrosoferric — containing both a ferrous compound and a ferric compound
  • ferrotitanium — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent titanium.
  • ferrotungsten — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent tungsten.
  • ferrous oxide — a black powder, FeO, insoluble in water, soluble in acid.
  • ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
  • ferry company — a company that operates a ferry or ferries
  • fertilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of 'fertilization'.
  • fertilization — an act, process, or instance of fertilizing.
  • festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
  • fibromuscular — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to both fibrous and muscular tissue.
  • fibrovascular — composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants: a fibrovascular bundle.
  • fiddle around — waste time doing sth trivial
  • field of fire — the area covered by a weapon or group of weapons firing from a given position.
  • field officer — an officer holding a field grade.
  • field servoid — (jargon, abuse)   /fee'ld ser'voyd/ A play on "android", a derogatory term for a representative of a field service organisation (see field circus), suggesting an unintelligent rule-driven approach to servicing computer hardware.
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • fighter pilot — sb who pilots a bomber plane
  • fighting word — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • figure of fun — If you describe someone as a figure of fun, you mean that people think they are ridiculous.
  • figure-ground — a property of perception in which there is a tendency to see parts of a visual field as solid, well-defined objects standing out against a less distinct background.
  • filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
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