13-letter words containing f, r, e, s
- nonesterified — relating to a fatty acid that is not esterified with glycerol to make glyceride
- nurse-midwife — a nurse skilled in assisting women in the prenatal period and in childbirth, especially at home or in another nonhospital setting.
- odoriferously — In an odoriferous manner.
- of all others — above all others
- of one's word — given to or noted for keeping one's promises
- off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
- off-side rule — A lexical convention due to Landin, allowing the scope of declarations in a program to be expressed by indentation. Any non-whitespace token to the left of the first such token on the previous line is taken to be the start of a new declaration. Used in, for example, Miranda and Haskell.
- office seeker — a person who seeks appointment or election to some government position.
- officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
- offshore dock — a floating dock moored to pilings, dolphins, etc., used for cleaning and repairing medium-sized vessels.
- olefin series — alkene series.
- olfactometers — Plural form of olfactometer.
- on course for — If you are on course for something, you are likely to achieve it.
- on sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
- one's forties — the ages between 40 and 49
- orate fratres — the call to prayer, addressed by the celebrant of the Mass to the people just before the Secret.
- osmoconformer — Any marine invertebrate that maintains its internal salinity such that it is always equal to the surrounding seawater.
- osteofibrosis — loss of calcium from the bones, causing them to become fragile
- otto of roses — rose oil.
- out of square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- out-of-stater — a visitor from another state of the U.S.: Many out-of-staters come to our summer music festival.
- outperformers — Plural form of outperformer.
- over-effusive — unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person.
- paper profits — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
- paradise fish — any small freshwater fish of the genus Macropodus, of southeastern Asia, often kept in aquariums.
- passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
- paterfamilias — the male head of a household or family, usually the father.
- perfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which sexual spores are formed, as the asci in the sexual stage of the ascomycete.
- perfect storm — a detrimental or calamitous situation or event arising from the powerful combined effect of a unique set of circumstances: a perfect storm battering corporate pension plans.
- perfect tense — grammar: have done, etc.
- perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
- perfectionist — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
- personal foul — a foul called in certain games, as basketball or football, for illegal body contact or rough, unsportsmanlike play.
- petroliferous — containing or yielding petroleum
- photofinisher — a person whose profession is photofinishing
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- platiniferous — platinum-bearing
- polliniferous — Botany. producing or bearing pollen.
- pommes frites — French fries
- porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- prefix syntax — prefix notation
- presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
- prescientific — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
- press of sail — as much sail as the wind or other conditions will permit a ship to carry.
- press officer — A press officer is a person who is employed by an organization to give information about that organization to the press.
- pressure-feed — a system in which the supply of material is maintained by applied pressure
- profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor