13-letter words containing f, t
- slave traffic — the traffic of slaves
- small fortune — a large sum of money
- snap fastener — A snap fastener is a small metal object used to fasten clothes, made up of two parts which can be pressed together.
- social misfit — a person who does not conform to others' views of what is normal or acceptable in society
- soda fountain — a counter, as in a restaurant or drugstore, at which sodas, ice cream, light meals, etc., are served.
- soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
- soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
- softly-softly — A softly-softly approach to something is cautious and patient and avoids direct action or force.
- soixante-neuf — sixty-nine (def 4).
- soothfastness — the state of being soothfast
- sound effects — any sounds artificially produced, reproduced from a recording, etc, to create a theatrical effect, such as the bringing together of two halves of a hollow coconut shell to simulate a horse's gallop; used in plays, films, etc
- south african — of southern Africa.
- southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
- space fiction — a book, film, TV series, etc, set in outer space
- special staff — all staff officers assigned to headquarters of a division or higher unit who are not members of the general staff or personal staff.
- specific heat — the number of calories required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance 1°C, or the number of BTU's per pound per degree F.
- specification — the act of specifying.
- specificities — the quality or state of being specific.
- specrate_fp92 — (benchmark) A benchmark result derived from the results of a set of floating-point benchmarks (the geometric mean of 14 SPEC rates from CFP92) run multiple times simultaneously, which can be used to estimate a machine's overall multi-tasking throughput for floating-point code. It is typically used on multiprocessor machines. SPECrate_fp92 obsoletes SPECfpThruput89.
- speech defect — a disorder of speech
- splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
- spotted fever — any of several fevers characterized by spots on the skin, especially as in cerebrospinal meningitis or typhus fever.
- sprint finish — the end of a long race in which competitors speed up as they approach the finish line
- staff canteen — a canteen or cafeteria in a company, establishment, etc, for members of staff to eat at
- staff captain — a person who assists the master of a large ocean passenger vessel, being especially responsible for safety apparatus, fire and lifeboat drills, etc.
- staff college — a training centre for executive military personnel
- staff meeting — company gathering of employees
- staff of life — bread, considered as the mainstay of the human diet.
- staff officer — a commissioned officer who is a member of a staff.
- staff section — section (def 10b).
- staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
- staghorn fern — any of several epiphytic Old World ferns of the genus Platycerium, having broad, often antlerlike leaves and cultivated as a houseplant.
- staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
- stanley falls — series of seven cataracts of the upper Congo River, just south of Kisangani
- stanley knife — A Stanley knife is a very sharp knife that is used to cut materials such as carpet and paper. It consists of a small blade fixed in the end of a handle.
- star of david — Judaism: six-pointed star
- start of text — (character) (STX) Mnemonic for ASCII 2.
- state funeral — a ceremonial funeral for a head of state, or other very important person
- state of aden — Aden (def 2).
- state of mind — mental condition, mood
- state of play — current situation
- steadfastness — fixed in direction; steadily directed: a steadfast gaze.
- step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
- stepford wife — a married woman who submits to her husband's will and is preoccupied by domestic concerns and her own personal appearance
- stereo effect — the spatial effect given to sound that is achieved by using two or more separate microphones to feed two or more loudspeakers through separate channels
- sternforemost — Nautical. with the stern, foremost.
- stick out for — If you stick out for something, you keep demanding it and do not accept anything different or less.
- stock footage — film containing stock shots.
- stoloniferous — producing or bearing stolons.
- storax family — the plant family Styracaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, clusters of bell-shaped white flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the silver bell, snowbell, and storax.