13-letter words containing f, t
- general staff — a group of officers who are without command and whose duty is to assist high commanders in planning and carrying out orders in peace and war.
- genetic drift — random changes in the frequency of alleles in a gene pool, usually of small populations.
- genuflections — Plural form of genuflection.
- geoscientific — relating to geoscience
- get a load of — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- get on top of — When something gets on top of you, it makes you feel unhappy or depressed because it is very difficult or worrying, or because it involves more work than you can manage.
- get rid of sb — If you get rid of someone who is causing problems for you or who you do not like, you do something to prevent them affecting you any more, for example by making them leave.
- get the shaft — to be tricked or cheated
- ghost fishing — the continued trapping and killing of marine life by a discarded fishing net floating at sea
- giant pigfish — a wrass, Achoerodus gouldii, that occurs around the Great Barrier Reef
- gill filament — one of the threadlike processes forming the respiratory surface of a gill.
- glacial drift — material, as gravel, sand, or clay, transported and deposited by a glacier or by glacial meltwater.
- glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
- glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
- go fly a kite — to move through the air using wings.
- go to bat for — Sports. the wooden club used in certain games, as baseball and cricket, to strike the ball. a racket, especially one used in badminton or table tennis. a whip used by a jockey. the act of using a club or racket in a game. the right or turn to use a club or racket.
- gottlob frege — (person, history, philosophy, mathematics, logic, theory) (1848-1925) A mathematician who put mathematics on a new and more solid foundation. He purged mathematics of mistaken, sloppy reasoning and the influence of Pythagoras. Mathematics was shown to be a subdivision of formal logic.
- graffiti-bomb — Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
- grain of salt — salt crystal
- grandfathered — Simple past tense and past participle of grandfather.
- grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
- gratification — the state of being gratified; great satisfaction.
- gravity fault — a fault along an inclined plane in which the upper side or hanging wall appears to have moved downward with respect to the lower side or footwall (opposed to reverse fault).
- ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
- growth factor — any of various proteins that promote the growth, organization, and maintenance of cells and tissues.
- gulf of kutch — an inlet of the Arabian Sea in India. Length: about 159 kilometres (99 miles)
- habit of mind — If someone has a particular habit of mind, they usually think in that particular way.
- habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
- half the time — If you say that something is the case half the time you mean that it often is the case.
- half-deserted — (of a place) not having many inhabitants, visitors, etc
- half-digested — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
- half-educated — having undergone education: educated people.
- half-integral — noting or pertaining to a fractional number obtained by dividing an odd integer by two, as 1/2.
- half-marathon — running: 13-mile footrace
- half-quartern — a loaf having a weight, when baked, of 800 g
- half-scottish — Also, Scots. of or relating to Scotland, its people, or their language.
- half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
- halfheartedly — Without enthusiasm nor interest.
- hand and foot — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- handcraftsman — A handicraftsman.
- hard and fast — strongly binding; not to be set aside or violated: hard-and-fast rules.
- hard-and-fast — strongly binding; not to be set aside or violated: hard-and-fast rules.
- hard-featured — having stern, harsh, or unattractive features.
- hartford fern — a climbing or sprawling fern, Lygodium palmatum, of the eastern U.S., having deeply lobed ivylike leaves.
- hash function — (programming) A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
- hatchet-faced — having a face with narrow dimensions and sharp features
- head of state — the person who holds the highest position in a national government: a meeting of heads of state.
- head of steam — momentum; driving power
- head of water — a quantity of water
- healthfulness — conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet.