13-letter words containing i, n, f, e
- fleming valve — (formerly) a diode.
- flemish giant — one of a breed of large domestic rabbits of Belgian origin, having a solid gray, white, or black coat, and raised for its meat and fur.
- flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
- floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
- floating rate — fluctuating exchange rate
- floating vote — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
- flodden field — a hill in Northumberland where invading Scots were defeated by the English in 1513 and James IV of Scotland was killed
- floorcovering — A covering for a floor.
- flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- flunitrazepam — a powerful benzodiazepine sedative, C 16 H 12 FN 3 O 3 , that causes semiconsciousness and memory blackouts: has been implicated in date rapes and is illegal in the U.S.
- fly fisherman — one who fishes by fly-casting
- flying bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
- flying picket — (in industrial disputes) a member of a group of pickets organized to be able to move quickly from place to place
- flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
- flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
- fn tunnelling — Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling
- foerstner bit — a bit for drilling blind holes, guided from the rim rather than from the center to permit it to enter the wood at an oblique angle.
- folding money — paper money.
- folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
- foliage plant — any plant grown chiefly for its attractive leaves.
- folk medicine — health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, especially food substances.
- fonctionnaire — a civil servant
- fons et origo — the source and origin
- fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
- foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
- footing piece — one of a series of horizontal transverse timbers supporting a platform or staging.
- for one thing — the first reason is
- for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- foraminiferal — Of, pertaining to, or resembling the foraminifers; foraminiferous.
- foraminiferan — any chiefly marine protozoan of the sarcodinian order Foraminifera, typically having a linear, spiral, or concentric shell perforated by small holes or pores through which pseudopodia extend.
- forbiddenness — a past participle of forbid.
- forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
- fore clipping — a word formed by omitting the first part of the form from which it is derived.
- foreconscious — the preconscious.
- forefeelingly — by way of forefeeling
- foregrounding — Present participle of foreground.
- foreign agent — a spy for a foreign country
- foreign-owned — owned by an individual who is resident in a different country or by a company whose headquarters are in a different country
- forementioned — Mentioned earlier or above; already cited.
- foreordaining — Present participle of foreordain.
- foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- forge welding — the welding of pieces of hot metal with pressure or blows.
- forgivingness — disposed to forgive; indicating forgiveness: a forgiving soul; a forgiving smile.
- fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
- fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
- fosamprenavir — (pharmaceutical drug) An anti-retroviral prodrug of the protease inhibitor amprenavir. It is used to treat HIV infected patients.
- fossil energy — heat energy released by burning fossil fuel
- foul-smelling — having a very unpleasant smell
- fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.