13-letter words containing o, f, a, n
- fugaciousness — (obsolete) fugacity.
- full of beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- funambulation — the act of walking on a tightrope; funambulism
- funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
- functionalise — to make functional.
- functionalism — (usually initial capital letter) Chiefly Architecture, Furniture. a design movement evolved from several previous movements or schools in Europe in the early 20th century, advocating the design of buildings, furnishings, etc., as direct fulfillments of material requirements, as for shelter, repose, or the serving of food, with the construction, materials, and purpose clearly expressed or at least not denied, and with aesthetic effect derived chiefly from proportions and finish, purely decorative effects being excluded or greatly subordinated. the doctrines and practices associated with this movement. Compare rationalism (def 4).
- functionalist — a person who advocates, or works according to, the principles of functionalism.
- functionality — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- functionalize — to make functional.
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- furaciousness — the quality of being furacious or thievish
- garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
- garrison life — the life of troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
- glorification — a glorified or more splendid form of something.
- grain of salt — salt crystal
- granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
- gratification — the state of being gratified; great satisfaction.
- habit of mind — If someone has a particular habit of mind, they usually think in that particular way.
- habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
- half coupling — a flange fixed at the end of each of the two shafts that are connected in a flange coupling
- half mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
- half-marathon — running: 13-mile footrace
- half-mourning — a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
- hand and foot — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hartford fern — a climbing or sprawling fern, Lygodium palmatum, of the eastern U.S., having deeply lobed ivylike leaves.
- hash function — (programming) A hash coding function which assigns a data item distinguished by some "key" into one of a number of possible "hash buckets" in a hash table. The hash function is usually combined with another more precise function. For example a program might take a string of letters and put it in one of twenty six lists depending on its first letter. Ideally, a hash function should distribute items evenly between the buckets to reduce the number of hash collisions. If, for example, the strings were names beginning with "Mr.", "Miss" or "Mrs." then taking the first letter would be a very poor hash function because all names would hash the same.
- heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
- honorifically — In a honorific manner.
- honors of war — special privileges granted to a defeated army, as that of continuing to bear arms
- horrification — That which causes horror.
- hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- ichthyofaunal — relating to ichthyofauna
- imperforation — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
- in advance of — prior to
- in default of — If something happens in default of something else, it happens because that other thing does not happen or proves to be impossible.
- in good faith — accordance with standards of honesty, trust, sincerity, etc. (usually preceded by in): If you act in good faith, he'll have no reason to question your motives.
- in one's face — directly opposite or against one
- in sb's favor — If someone makes a judgment in your favor, they say that you are right about something.
- in the act of — while committing: crime, transgression
- in the pay of — If you say that someone is in the pay of a certain person or group, you disapprove of the fact that they are being paid by and are working for that person or group, often secretly or illegally.
- in the way of — similar to, like
- in-capable of — not capable.
- inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
- inefficacious — not able to produce the desired effect; ineffective.
- inertia force — an imaginary force supposed to act upon an accelerated body, equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the resultant of the real forces
- infant school — In Britain, an infant school is a school for children between the ages of five and seven.
- inferolateral — (anatomy) Both inferior and lateral.
- infiltrations — Plural form of infiltration.