13-letter words containing l, e, a, f
- false bulrush — a tall reedlike marsh plant, Typha latifolia, with straplike leaves and flowers in long brown sausage-shaped spikes: family Typhaceae
- false colours — a flag to which one is not entitled, flown esp in order to deceive
- false diamond — any of a number of semiprecious stones that resemble diamond, such as zircon and white topaz
- false economy — an attempt to save money which actually leads to greater expense
- false horizon — a line or plane that simulates the horizon, used in altitude-measuring devices or the like.
- false saffron — a red dye used for cotton and for colouring foods and cosmetics, or a drug obtained from the florets of this plant
- false vampire — any large, carnivorous bat of the families Megadermatidae and Phyllostomatidae, of Africa, Asia, and Australia, erroneously reputed to suck the blood of animals and humans.
- false-hearted — having a false or treacherous heart; deceitful; perfidious.
- familiarities — Plural form of familiarity.
- family circle — the closely related members of a family as a group.
- family credit — (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
- family friend — intimate acquaintance of one's family
- family jewels — a man's genitals
- family values — belief in traditional family unit
- family-minded — devoted to one's family
- fanaticalness — Fanaticism.
- fanfold paper — continuous paper perforated at regular intervals, as used in a dot-matrix printer
- fare-you-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
- farkleberries — Plural form of farkleberry.
- farm labourer — a person engaged in physical work on a farm
- farm-to-table — noting or relating to fresh, locally sourced food sold to local consumers or restaurants: farm-to-table meats and seasonal vegetables.
- farmer's lung — a lung disorder caused by inhalation of moldy hay dust, marked by shortness of breath, dry cough, and weight loss.
- faroe islands — islands in Atlantic Ocean
- fashion model — sb employed to show off designer clothes
- fashion plate — a person who consistently wears the latest style in dress.
- fast dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another, merging the two scenes imperceptibly
- fast follower — a company that is quick to pick up good new ideas from other companies
- fast telegram — a type of domestic telegram sent at full rate with a minimum charge for 10 words or less and accepted for immediate delivery.
- fat electrons — (electronics, humour) Old-time hacker David Cargill's theory on the cause of computer glitches. Your typical electricity company draws its line current out of the big generators with a pair of coil taps located near the top of the dynamo. When the normal tap brushes get dirty, they take them off line to clean them up, and use special auxiliary taps on the *bottom* of the coil. Now, this is a problem, because when they do that they get not ordinary or "thin" electrons, but the fat sloppy electrons that are heavier and so settle to the bottom of the generator. These flow down ordinary wires just fine, but when they have to turn a sharp corner (as in an integrated-circuit via), they're apt to get stuck. This is what causes computer glitches. Compare bogon, magic smoke.
- father lasher — a large sea scorpion, Myoxocephalus scorpius, occurring in British and European coastal waters
- father-in-law — the father of one's husband or wife.
- fatigableness — the quality of being fatigable
- fatigue limit — the maximum stress to which a material can be subjected without failing.
- fault breccia — angular rock fragments produced by fracture and grinding during faulting and distributed within or adjacent to the fault plane.
- fault current — A fault current is a current that results from a fault.
- faultlessness — The quality of being faultless; the absence of faults.
- favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
- favrile glass — a type of iridescent glass developed by L.C. Tiffany
- feasibilities — Plural form of feasibility.
- feast of lots — Purim.
- featurelessly — In a featureless way; without features.
- federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
- feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
- feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
- felicitations — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
- fellow inmate — sb in same prison
- female condom — a type of condom used by women and inserted into the vagina
- female thread — a helical groove in a cylindrical hole formed by a tap or lathe tool
- ferroaluminum — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent aluminum.
- fertilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of 'fertilization'.