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13-letter words containing o, f, s, e, a

  • draft version — a preliminary version
  • draftspersons — Plural form of draftsperson.
  • east hartford — a town in central Connecticut.
  • efficaciously — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
  • ex post facto — having retrospective effect
  • facetiousness — (uncountable) The state of being facetious.
  • factory-fresh — coming directly from the factory; brand new
  • facts of life — any aspect of human existence that must be acknowledged or regarded as unalterable: Old age is a fact of life.
  • 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
  • faroe islands — islands in Atlantic Ocean
  • 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
  • fashionmonger — (derogatory) One who slavishly follows the latest fashions.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
  • feast of lots — Purim.
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • feature story — a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an individual style. Compare follow-up (def 3b), hard news, news story.
  • feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
  • felicitations — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
  • fermentations — Plural form of fermentation.
  • fertilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of 'fertilization'.
  • festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
  • fetishization — The act or process of fetishizing.
  • fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
  • fictionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fictionalize.
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
  • flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
  • flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
  • flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
  • fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • focal seizure — an epileptic manifestation arising from a localized anomaly in the brain, as a small tumor or scar, and usually involving a single motor or sensory mechanism but occasionally spreading to other areas and causing convulsions and loss of consciousness.
  • fool's errand — a completely absurd, pointless, or useless errand.
  • foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
  • for chrissake — for Christ's sake
  • for sb's sake — When you do something for someone's sake, you do it in order to help them or make them happy.
  • for values of — (jargon)   A common rhetorical maneuver at MIT is to use any of the canonical random numbers as placeholders for variables. "The max function takes 42 arguments, for arbitrary values of 42". "There are 69 ways to leave your lover, for 69 = 50". This is especially likely when the speaker has uttered a random number and realises that it was not recognised as such, but even "non-random" numbers are occasionally used in this fashion. A related joke is that pi equals 3 - for small values of pi and large values of 3. This usage probably derives from the programming language MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder), an ALGOL-like language that was the most common choice among mainstream (non-hacker) users at MIT in the mid-1960s. It had a control structure FOR VALUES OF X = 3, 7, 99 DO ... that would repeat the indicated instructions for each value in the list (unlike the usual FOR that generates an arithmetic sequence of values). MAD is long extinct, but similar for-constructs still flourish (e.g. in Unix's shell languages).
  • for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
  • force a smile — to make oneself smile
  • forearm smash — a blow like a punch delivered with the forearm in certain types of wrestling
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