13-letter words containing f, r, e, s, l
- false vampire — any large, carnivorous bat of the families Megadermatidae and Phyllostomatidae, of Africa, Asia, and Australia, erroneously reputed to suck the blood of animals and humans.
- false-hearted — having a false or treacherous heart; deceitful; perfidious.
- familiarities — Plural form of familiarity.
- farkleberries — Plural form of farkleberry.
- farmer's lung — a lung disorder caused by inhalation of moldy hay dust, marked by shortness of breath, dry cough, and weight loss.
- faroe islands — islands in Atlantic Ocean
- fast follower — a company that is quick to pick up good new ideas from other companies
- fast telegram — a type of domestic telegram sent at full rate with a minimum charge for 10 words or less and accepted for immediate delivery.
- 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.
- father lasher — a large sea scorpion, Myoxocephalus scorpius, occurring in British and European coastal waters
- favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
- favrile glass — a type of iridescent glass developed by L.C. Tiffany
- featurelessly — In a featureless way; without features.
- feeder school — a junior school whose pupils go to a specific secondary school
- fertilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of 'fertilization'.
- festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
- fever blister — cold sore.
- field marshal — an officer of the highest military rank in the British and certain other armies, and of the second highest rank in the French army.
- field service — military service performed in the field
- 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.
- fieldstripped — Simple past tense and past participle of fieldstrip.
- figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
- file transfer — (networking) Copying a file from one computer to another over a computer network. See also File Transfer Protocol, Kermit, Network File System, rcp, uucp, XMODEM, ZMODEM.
- filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
- filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
- filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
- fill her tins — to complete a home baking of cakes, biscuits, etc
- filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
- firmer chisel — a narrow-bladed chisel for paring and mortising, driven by hand pressure or with a mallet.
- first peoples — any of the indigenous peoples or Indian communities of Canada, especially one formally recognized by the Canadian government.
- first refusal — If someone has first refusal on something that is being sold or offered, they have the right to decide whether or not to buy it or take it before it is offered to anyone else.
- flabbergasted — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flabbergaster — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
- flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
- flesh peddler — a prostitute.
- flesh-colored — Something that is flesh-colored is yellowish pink in color.
- flesh-peddler — an employment agent or agency, especially one that recruits executives.
- flower seller — a person who sells flowers for a living, usually from a stall in the street
- flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
- fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- fly fisherman — one who fishes by fly-casting
- flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.