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13-letter words containing o, f, s, t, r

  • east hartford — a town in central Connecticut.
  • effortfulness — (psychology) subjective experience of exertion or effort involved in performing an activity.
  • epping forest — a forest in E England, northeast of London: formerly a royal hunting ground
  • factorisation — Alternative spelling of factorization.
  • factory-fresh — coming directly from the factory; brand new
  • fantasmagoria — phantasmagoria.
  • fantasmagoric — phantasmagoria.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • fermentations — Plural form of fermentation.
  • fermentitious — of a fermenting nature
  • ferrotungsten — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent tungsten.
  • fertilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of 'fertilization'.
  • festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
  • filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
  • firing stroke — The firing stroke is the stroke of an engine in which the fuel is burned and energy sent to the piston.
  • first edition — the whole number of copies of a literary work printed first, from the same type, and issued together.
  • first officer — first mate.
  • first peoples — any of the indigenous peoples or Indian communities of Canada, especially one formally recognized by the Canadian government.
  • flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
  • flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
  • flirtatiously — given or inclined to flirtation.
  • floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
  • floristically — In a floristic manner.
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
  • fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
  • fluoroscopist — One who carries out fluoroscopy.
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • 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.
  • folkloristics — folklore (def 2).
  • fons et origo — the source and origin
  • food industry — the industry surrounding the production of food
  • food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
  • for sb's part — When you are describing people's thoughts or actions, you can say for her part or for my part, for example, to introduce what a particular person thinks or does.
  • for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • for the worse — into a less desirable or inferior state or condition
  • for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
  • foreshortened — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten.
  • foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
  • foresightless — lacking foresight
  • forest ranger — any of the officers employed by the government to supervise the care and preservation of forests, especially public forests.
  • forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
  • forgottenness — the status of being forgotten
  • formal system — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
  • formalisation — Alternative spelling of formalization.
  • formularistic — relating to formularization
  • fort donelson — Fort Donelson.
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