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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.
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