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13-letter words containing f, o, s

  • flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
  • fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
  • fluorocarbons — Plural form of fluorocarbon.
  • fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
  • fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
  • fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.
  • fluoroscopist — One who carries out fluoroscopy.
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • flying colors — with flying colors, with an overwhelming victory, triumph, or success: He passed the test with flying colors.
  • focal seizure — an epileptic manifestation arising from a localized anomaly in the brain, as a small tumor or scar, and usually involving a single motor or sensory mechanism but occasionally spreading to other areas and causing convulsions and loss of consciousness.
  • foerstner bit — a bit for drilling blind holes, guided from the rim rather than from the center to permit it to enter the wood at an oblique angle.
  • folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
  • foldoc source — The source text of FOLDOC is a single plain text file. FOLDOC is also available on paper from your local printer but, at 700,000+ words, that would be about 2000 pages.
  • folkloristics — folklore (def 2).
  • fons et origo — the source and origin
  • food industry — the industry surrounding the production of food
  • food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
  • food shopping — shopping to buy food
  • food supplies — food obtained for a household or for a country, an expedition, etc
  • fool's errand — a completely absurd, pointless, or useless errand.
  • foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
  • for chrissake — for Christ's sake
  • for sb's part — When you are describing people's thoughts or actions, you can say for her part or for my part, for example, to introduce what a particular person thinks or does.
  • for sb's sake — When you do something for someone's sake, you do it in order to help them or make them happy.
  • for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • for the worse — into a less desirable or inferior state or condition
  • for values of — (jargon)   A common rhetorical maneuver at MIT is to use any of the canonical random numbers as placeholders for variables. "The max function takes 42 arguments, for arbitrary values of 42". "There are 69 ways to leave your lover, for 69 = 50". This is especially likely when the speaker has uttered a random number and realises that it was not recognised as such, but even "non-random" numbers are occasionally used in this fashion. A related joke is that pi equals 3 - for small values of pi and large values of 3. This usage probably derives from the programming language MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder), an ALGOL-like language that was the most common choice among mainstream (non-hacker) users at MIT in the mid-1960s. It had a control structure FOR VALUES OF X = 3, 7, 99 DO ... that would repeat the indicated instructions for each value in the list (unlike the usual FOR that generates an arithmetic sequence of values). MAD is long extinct, but similar for-constructs still flourish (e.g. in Unix's shell languages).
  • for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
  • forbiddenness — a past participle of forbid.
  • force a smile — to make oneself smile
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • forearm smash — a blow like a punch delivered with the forearm in certain types of wrestling
  • foreconscious — the preconscious.
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • foreshortened — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten.
  • foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
  • foresightless — lacking foresight
  • forest ranger — any of the officers employed by the government to supervise the care and preservation of forests, especially public forests.
  • forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
  • forgivingness — disposed to forgive; indicating forgiveness: a forgiving soul; a forgiving smile.
  • forgottenness — the status of being forgotten
  • form of words — the type of words and phrases used
  • formal system — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
  • formalisation — Alternative spelling of formalization.
  • formicivorous — ant-eating.
  • formularising — Present participle of formularise.
  • formularistic — relating to formularization
  • fort donelson — Fort Donelson.
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