13-letter words containing f, t
- to stand firm — If someone stands firm, they refuse to change their mind about something.
- to tempt fate — If someone says that something they say or do is tempting fate or is tempting providence, they mean they are worried that it may cause the good luck they have had so far to end.
- to the effect — with the purport or meaning
- toasting fork — a long-handled fork used for cooking or toasting frankfurters, marshmallows, bread, etc., usually over an open fire.
- tortilla flat — a novel (1935) by John Steinbeck.
- tour de force — an exceptional achievement by an artist, author, or the like, that is unlikely to be equaled by that person or anyone else; stroke of genius: Herman Melville's Moby Dick was a tour de force.
- trade deficit — A trade deficit is a situation in which a country imports goods worth more than the value of the goods that it exports.
- trade figures — a record of how much a country has paid for goods which it has bought from other countries, compared with how much it has been paid for goods which it has sold to other countries
- trading floor — stock exchange: room where trading is done
- traffic court — a court that passes on alleged violations of traffic laws.
- traffic light — a set of electrically operated signal lights used to direct or control traffic at intersections.
- transfeminine — noting or relating to a person who was born male but whose gender identity is more female than male.
- transfeminism — a movement supporting the belief that the rights of transgender women are linked to the feminist movement, specifically the right to assume a gender identity that does not correspond to one’s biological sex assigned at birth.
- transfer desk — the place in an airport where you arrange a transfer from one flight to another
- transfer list — In football, a transfer list is a list of players at a club who may be sold to other clubs.
- transferrable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- transformable — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transfrontier — the part of a country that borders another country; boundary; border.
- transfusional — of or relating to transfusion
- transfusively — in a transfusive manner
- trash farming — cultivation by leaving stubble, etc, on the surface of the soil to serve as a mulch
- trifunctional — pertaining to molecules that can react at three sites.
- trig function — Also called circular function. a function of an angle, as sine or cosine, expressed as the ratio of the sides of a right triangle.
- triple figure — a number made up of three digits.
- tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
- trout fishing — angling to catch trout
- tseng kuo-fan — 1811–72, Chinese general and statesman.
- tubuliflorous — having the corolla tubular in all the perfect flowers of a head, as certain composite plants.
- tunnel effect — Physics. a quantum-mechanical process by which a particle can pass through a potential energy barrier that is higher than the energy of the particle: first postulated to explain the escape of alpha particles from atomic nuclei.
- turn of speed — If a person, animal, or vehicle has a good turn of speed, they have the ability to move fast.
- twelfth grade — (in the US) the final year of secondary school after which students usually graduate at age 17 or 18
- twelfth night — the evening before Twelfth Day, formerly observed with various festivities.
- twenty-fourmo — a book size of about 3 5/8 × 5 1/8 inches (9 × 13 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 24 leaves or 48 pages.
- twenty-fourth — next after the twenty-third; being the ordinal number for 24.
- twin camshaft — A twin camshaft is an arrangement of two parallel camshafts for each set of cylinders in an engine. Usually one operates the intake valve and the other the exhaust valve.
- twist of fate — unexpected chance occurrence
- two of a kind — two similar people or things
- two-four time — music: time signature of 2/4
- typhoid fever — Also called typhoid fever. an infectious, often fatal, febrile disease, usually of the summer months, characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration, caused by the typhoid bacillus, which is usually introduced with food or drink.
- ultra-leftism — the beliefs of extremely left-wing political parties or groups
- ultra-leftist — a person with extremely left-wing political views
- ultrafamiliar — extremely familiar
- ultrafeminine — pertaining to a woman or girl: feminine beauty; feminine dress.
- ultrafiltrate — a liquid that has been passed through an ultrafilter.
- ultrapowerful — extremely powerful
- ultrararefied — extremely rarefied
- unbeautifully — in a unbeautiful or unattractive manner
- uncomfortable — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
- uncomfortably — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
- unconflicting — being in conflict or disagreement; not compatible: conflicting viewpoints.