13-letter words containing n, f
- farther india — a peninsula in SE Asia, between India and China: consists of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Malaysia
- fasciculation — a fascicular condition.
- fascinatingly — of great interest or attraction; enchanting; charming; captivating: a fascinating story; fascinating jewelry.
- fashion house — an establishment in which fashionable clothes are designed, made, and sold
- fashion model — sb employed to show off designer clothes
- fashion plate — a person who consistently wears the latest style in dress.
- fashion sense — instinct for what is stylish
- fashion shoot — an event at which photographs are taken of people wearing fashionable clothes
- fashionmonger — (derogatory) One who slavishly follows the latest fashions.
- fast ethernet — (networking) A version of Ethernet developed in the 1990s(?) which can carry 100 Mbps compared with standard Ethernet's 10 Mbps. It requires upgraded network cards and hubs. The relevant standards are 100BaseT, 100BaseFX and 100BaseVG.
- fast-breaking — (of a news story) occurring suddenly, and often portending a series of events or further developments in rapid succession.
- fast-tracking — the practice of speeding up the progress of a project or person
- 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.
- fatheadedness — The quality of being fatheaded.
- father-in-law — the father of one's husband or wife.
- fatigableness — the quality of being fatigable
- fault current — A fault current is a current that results from a fault.
- fault-finding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
- faultlessness — The quality of being faultless; the absence of faults.
- faunistically — in a faunistic manner
- favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
- fearmongering — The action of deliberately arousing public fear or alarm about a particular issue.
- featherbrains — Plural form of featherbrain.
- febrifacients — Plural form of febrifacient.
- fee-splitting — the practice of dividing a fee for professional services between two professional persons, as between a referring doctor and a specialist, without the knowledge of the client.
- feeble-minded — lacking the normal mental powers.
- feinschmecker — gourmet.
- felicitations — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
- fellow inmate — sb in same prison
- fellowshiping — Present participle of fellowship.
- feloniousness — The quality of being felonious.
- felony murder — a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
- female condom — a type of condom used by women and inserted into the vagina
- fence-mending — the practice of reestablishing or strengthening personal, business, or political contacts and relationships by conciliation or negotiation, as after a dispute, disagreement, or period of inactivity.
- fencelessness — Lack of fences.
- fencing match — a match between fencers
- fender bender — a collision between motor vehicles in which there is only minor damage.
- fender-bender — a collision between motor vehicles in which there is only minor damage.
- ferae naturae — (of animals) wild or undomesticated (distinguished from domitae naturae).
- ferdinand iii — Ferdinand II (def 1).
- ferdinand vii — 1784–1833, king of Spain 1808, 1814–33.
- fermentations — Plural form of fermentation.
- fermentitious — of a fermenting nature
- ferociousness — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- ferricyanogen — (chemistry) A hexavalent radical, Fe2(CN)12, a compound of cyanogen and iron in the ferric state.
- ferrimagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as a ferrite, in which the magnetic moments of some neighboring atoms point in opposite directions, with a net magnetization still resulting because of differences in magnitudes of the opposite moments.
- ferroaluminum — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent aluminum.
- ferroconcrete — reinforced concrete.
- ferrocyanogen — a ferrocyanide radical
- ferromagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.