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13-letter words containing f, r, e

  • feather grass — any American grass of the genus Stipa, having a feathery appendage.
  • feather tract — pteryla.
  • featherbedded — Simple past tense and past participle of featherbed.
  • featherbrains — Plural form of featherbrain.
  • featherheaded — featherbrain.
  • featherstitch — an embroidery stitch producing work in which a succession of branches extend alternately on each side of a central stem.
  • featherweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a bantamweight and a lightweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 126 pounds (57 kg).
  • feature creep — creeping featurism
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • feature story — a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an individual style. Compare follow-up (def 3b), hard news, news story.
  • featurelessly — In a featureless way; without features.
  • febrifacients — Plural form of febrifacient.
  • federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
  • feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
  • feeder school — a junior school whose pupils go to a specific secondary school
  • feeder stream — a tributary that feeds into a larger river, canal, etc
  • feinschmecker — gourmet.
  • fellow member — someone who is a member of the same organization or society as you
  • fellow worker — someone you work with
  • felony murder — a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
  • female thread — a helical groove in a cylindrical hole formed by a tap or lathe tool
  • fender bender — a collision between motor vehicles in which there is only minor damage.
  • fender-bender — a collision between motor vehicles in which there is only minor damage.
  • ferae naturae — (of animals) wild or undomesticated (distinguished from domitae naturae).
  • ferdinand iii — Ferdinand II (def 1).
  • ferdinand vii — 1784–1833, king of Spain 1808, 1814–33.
  • fermentations — Plural form of fermentation.
  • fermentitious — of a fermenting nature
  • ferociousness — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
  • ferret badger — any of several small omnivores of the genus Melogale, of southern and eastern Asia, having a bushy tail and distinctive white or yellow markings on a black face.
  • ferricyanogen — (chemistry) A hexavalent radical, Fe2(CN)12, a compound of cyanogen and iron in the ferric state.
  • ferrimagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as a ferrite, in which the magnetic moments of some neighboring atoms point in opposite directions, with a net magnetization still resulting because of differences in magnitudes of the opposite moments.
  • ferroaluminum — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent aluminum.
  • ferrochromium — a ferroalloy containing up to 70 percent chromium.
  • ferroconcrete — reinforced concrete.
  • ferrocyanogen — a ferrocyanide radical
  • ferroelectric — pertaining to a substance that possesses spontaneous electric polarization such that the polarization can be reversed by an electric field.
  • ferromagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
  • ferrosoferric — containing both a ferrous compound and a ferric compound
  • ferrotitanium — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent titanium.
  • ferrotungsten — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent tungsten.
  • ferrous oxide — a black powder, FeO, insoluble in water, soluble in acid.
  • ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
  • ferry company — a company that operates a ferry or ferries
  • fertilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of 'fertilization'.
  • fertilization — an act, process, or instance of fertilizing.
  • festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
  • festschriften — Plural form of festschrift.
  • fever blister — cold sore.
  • fever therapy — therapy by means of an artificially induced fever.
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