13-letter words containing f, t
- straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- straightforth — straight or directly forward
- strategic fit — (in business) the degree to which the activities of different sections of a business or businesses working together complement one another to achieve competitive advantage and business success
- stress relief — Stress relief involves removing stresses in a material, usually by heating it to a temperature at which it can deform easily.
- strombuliform — in the shape of a coil
- strong safety — the defensive back assigned to cover the area across from the strong side of the opponent's offensive line and primarily responsible for defending against pass plays.
- stuffed derma — kishke.
- stuffed dummy — someone who says or does nothing and is generally inanimate and characterless
- stuffed shirt — a pompous, self-satisfied, and inflexible person.
- stultifyingly — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
- subjectifying — to make subjective.
- subprefecture — the office or position of subprefect
- suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- suffrutescent — partially or slightly woody; subshrubby.
- sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
- sulfate paper — paper made from sulfate pulp.
- sulfathiazole — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 9 H 9 N 3 O 2 S 2 , formerly used in the treatment of pneumonia and staphylococcal infections, but now largely replaced because of its toxicity.
- sulfite paper — paper made from sulfite pulp.
- sulfonmethane — a colorless, crystalline compound, C7H16O4S2, used in medicine as a soporific and hypnotic
- sulfur-bottom — blue whale.
- superfetation — the fertilization of an ovum in a female mammal already pregnant.
- superfluidity — a fluid that exhibits frictionless flow, very high heat conductivity, and other unusual physical properties, helium below 2.186 K being the only known example.
- superfortress — a heavy, long-range, four-engined bomber used during World War II.
- superterrific — more than terrific
- surf 'n' turf — surf and turf.
- surf and turf — surf and turf.
- surf-'n'-turf — surf and turf.
- surface plate — Machinery. a flat plate used by machinists for testing surfaces that are to be made perfectly flat.
- surface water — water found on the surface of the earth (not underground or in the atmosphere), for example in rivers, seas, lakes, reservoirs, etc
- surface yeast — yeast that rises to the surface as froth during fermentation.
- surfer's knot — a tumorlike nodule below a surfer's knee or on the upper area of the foot, caused by pressure on the skin and tissue exerted by the surfboard.
- swift current — a city in SW Saskatchewan, in S Canada.
- swift-flowing — moving rapidly
- tablespoonful — the amount a tablespoon can hold.
- taffeta weave — plain weave.
- take leave of — to say goodbye to
- take the fall — to be blamed, punished, or imprisoned
- takeaway food — food which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere
- tale of genji — a novel (1001–20?) by Lady Murasaki, dealing with Japanese court life.
- talking chief — a noble who serves as public spokesperson for the chief in some Polynesian tribes.
- tariff office — a company whose premiums are based on a tariff agreed with other insurance companies
- tariff reform — increase in import duties
- tariffication — the creation, fixing, or conversion of a tariff
- tassel flower — love-lies-bleeding.
- tea-of-heaven — a shrub, Hydrangea macrophylla serrata, of the saxifrage family, native to Japan and Korea, having hairy, ovate leaves and flat or slightly arched clusters of blue or white flowers.
- teasel family — the plant family Dipsacaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having opposite or whorled leaves, dense flower heads surrounded by an involucre, and small, dry fruit, and including the scabious and teasel.
- telefacsimile — facsimile (def 2).
- telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
- tenant farmer — a person who farms the land of another and pays rent with cash or with a portion of the produce.
- teofilo otoni — a city in E central Brazil.