13-letter words containing f, o, s, t
- small fortune — a large sum of money
- social misfit — a person who does not conform to others' views of what is normal or acceptable in society
- soda fountain — a counter, as in a restaurant or drugstore, at which sodas, ice cream, light meals, etc., are served.
- soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
- soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
- softly-softly — A softly-softly approach to something is cautious and patient and avoids direct action or force.
- soixante-neuf — sixty-nine (def 4).
- soothfastness — the state of being soothfast
- sound effects — any sounds artificially produced, reproduced from a recording, etc, to create a theatrical effect, such as the bringing together of two halves of a hollow coconut shell to simulate a horse's gallop; used in plays, films, etc
- south african — of southern Africa.
- southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
- space fiction — a book, film, TV series, etc, set in outer space
- specification — the act of specifying.
- spotted fever — any of several fevers characterized by spots on the skin, especially as in cerebrospinal meningitis or typhus fever.
- staff college — a training centre for executive military personnel
- staff of life — bread, considered as the mainstay of the human diet.
- staff officer — a commissioned officer who is a member of a staff.
- staff section — section (def 10b).
- staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
- staghorn fern — any of several epiphytic Old World ferns of the genus Platycerium, having broad, often antlerlike leaves and cultivated as a houseplant.
- staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
- star of david — Judaism: six-pointed star
- start of text — (character) (STX) Mnemonic for ASCII 2.
- state of aden — Aden (def 2).
- state of mind — mental condition, mood
- state of play — current situation
- step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
- stepford wife — a married woman who submits to her husband's will and is preoccupied by domestic concerns and her own personal appearance
- stereo effect — the spatial effect given to sound that is achieved by using two or more separate microphones to feed two or more loudspeakers through separate channels
- sternforemost — Nautical. with the stern, foremost.
- stick out for — If you stick out for something, you keep demanding it and do not accept anything different or less.
- stock footage — film containing stock shots.
- stoloniferous — producing or bearing stolons.
- storax family — the plant family Styracaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, clusters of bell-shaped white flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the silver bell, snowbell, and storax.
- straightforth — straight or directly forward
- strombuliform — in the shape of a coil
- strong safety — the defensive back assigned to cover the area across from the strong side of the opponent's offensive line and primarily responsible for defending against pass plays.
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
- sulfathiazole — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 9 H 9 N 3 O 2 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of pneumonia and staphylococcal infections, but now largely replaced because of its toxicity.
- sulfonmethane — a colorless, crystalline compound, C7H16O4S2, used in medicine as a soporific and hypnotic
- sulfur-bottom — blue whale.
- superfetation — the fertilization of an ovum in a female mammal already pregnant.
- superfortress — a heavy, long-range, four-engined bomber used during World War II.
- surfer's knot — a tumorlike nodule below a surfer's knee or on the upper area of the foot, caused by pressure on the skin and tissue exerted by the surfboard.
- swift-flowing — moving rapidly
- tablespoonful — the amount a tablespoon can hold.
- tassel flower — love-lies-bleeding.
- telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
- testification — the act of testifying or giving testimony.