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13-letter words containing f, o, s, t

  • infraposition — A situation or position beneath.
  • infructuously — in an infructuous or unfruitful manner; fruitlessly
  • inns of court — (in England) the four private unincorporated societies in London that function as a law school and have the exclusive privilege of calling candidates to the English bar
  • isle of wight — Isle of, an island off the S coast of England, forming an administrative division of Hampshire. 147 sq. mi. (381 sq. km). County seat: Newport.
  • isle of youth — Isle of, an island in the Caribbean, a special municipality in S Cuba. 1182 sq. mi. (3060 sq. km).
  • jacob's staff — Astronomy. cross-staff.
  • jeffersontown — a town in N Kentucky.
  • justification — a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
  • justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
  • killing frost — the occurrence of temperatures cold enough to kill all but the hardiest vegetation, especially the last such occurrence in spring and the first in fall, events that limit the agricultural growing season.
  • kiss of death — a fatal or destructive relationship or action: The support of the outlawed group was the kiss of death to the candidate.
  • kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
  • leapfrog test — a diagnostic technique using arithmetic or logical operations in a routine to manage the capacity of storage media, transfer data, and check the results.
  • let off steam — a blast of air or wind: to clean machinery with a blow.
  • line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
  • liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
  • lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
  • logical shift — (programming)   (Either shift left logical or shift right logical) Machine-level operations available on nearly all processors which move each bit in a word one or more bit positions in the given direction. A left shift moves the bits to more significant positions (like multiplying by two), a right shift moves them to less significant positions (like dividing by two). The comparison with multiplication and division breaks down in certain circumstances - a logical shift may discard bits that are shifted off either end of the word and does not preserve the sign of the word (positive or negative). Logical shift is approriate when treating the word as a bit string or a sequence of bit fields, whereas arithmetic shift is appropriate when treating it as a binary number. The word to be shifted is usually stored in a register, or possibly in memory.
  • loose-fitting — (of a garment) fitting loosely; not following the contours of the body closely.
  • lord of hosts — Jehovah; God.
  • lose sight of — no longer see
  • lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
  • loss function — (in decision theory) a function that expresses the loss incurred when a decision is made in terms of various factors.
  • magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
  • make sport of — to mock or ridicule; poke fun at
  • malformations — Plural form of malformation.
  • manifestation — an act of manifesting.
  • manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
  • market forces — factors driving the economy
  • marsh trefoil — buck bean.
  • massification — the practice of making luxury products available to the mass market
  • mesne profits — rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
  • metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
  • metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
  • microfelsitic — (of a rock) showing evidence of crystallization having begun, but not yet having formed any crystals
  • microsoft dos — Microsoft Disk Operating System
  • microsoft iis — Internet Information Server
  • modifications — Plural form of modification.
  • monkey's fist — a ball-like knot used as an ornament or as a throwing weight at the end of a line.
  • monofilaments — Plural form of monofilament.
  • montefiascone — a town in central Italy: wine-growing area.
  • movable feast — a religious feast that does not occur on the same date each year.
  • myofibroblast — (cytology) A cell that is intermediate between a fibroblast and smooth muscle.
  • mystification — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
  • narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
  • nectariferous — producing nectar.
  • noncolourfast — (of a fabric) having a colour that tends to fade when washed or worn
  • nonconformist — a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
  • nonesterified — relating to a fatty acid that is not esterified with glycerol to make glyceride
  • nonfatalities — Plural form of nonfatality.
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