13-letter words containing f, o, s, t
- defloration's — the act of deflowering.
- deforestation — to divest or clear of forests or trees: Poor planning deforested the area in ten years.
- densification — the act of becoming or making more dense
- desulfuration — to desulfurize.
- disafforested — Simple past tense and past participle of disafforest.
- discomforting — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconformity — Geology. the surface of a division between parallel rock strata, indicating interruption of sedimentation: a type of unconformity.
- discontentful — exhibiting a lack of contentment
- disfiguration — an act or instance of disfiguring.
- disfunctional — dysfunction.
- dome fastener — a fastening device consisting of one part with a projecting knob that snaps into a hole on another like part, used esp in closures in clothing
- domestic fowl — a chicken.
- doppler shift — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
- draft version — a preliminary version
- draftspersons — Plural form of draftsperson.
- dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- east hartford — a town in central Connecticut.
- edison effect — the phenomenon of the flow of electric current when an electrode sealed inside the bulb of an incandescent lamp is connected to the positive terminal of the lamp.
- effortfulness — (psychology) subjective experience of exertion or effort involved in performing an activity.
- epping forest — a forest in E England, northeast of London: formerly a royal hunting ground
- ex post facto — having retrospective effect
- facetiousness — (uncountable) The state of being facetious.
- factorisation — Alternative spelling of factorization.
- factory-fresh — coming directly from the factory; brand new
- facts of life — any aspect of human existence that must be acknowledged or regarded as unalterable: Old age is a fact of life.
- falsification — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- fantabulously — In a fantabulous manner; fantastically, wonderfully.
- fantasmagoria — phantasmagoria.
- fantasmagoric — phantasmagoria.
- fasciculation — a fascicular condition.
- fashion plate — a person who consistently wears the latest style in dress.
- fashion shoot — an event at which photographs are taken of people wearing fashionable clothes
- 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
- 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.
- feast of lots — Purim.
- 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.
- feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
- felicitations — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
- fermentations — Plural form of fermentation.
- fermentitious — of a fermenting nature
- ferrotungsten — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent tungsten.
- fertilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of 'fertilization'.
- 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
- fetishization — The act or process of fetishizing.
- feuilletonism — The light, entertaining writing style associated with feuilletons.
- feuilletonist — a part of a European newspaper devoted to light literature, fiction, criticism, etc.
- fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.