13-letter words containing o, n, e, f, r, t
- fortunateness — The quality of being fortunate; fortune; luck.
- fortuneteller — a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
- forty-seventh — next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
- foster parent — a foster father or foster mother.
- fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
- fractionalize — Divide (someone or something) into separate groups or parts.
- fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- fracture zone — a long, narrow rift on the ocean floor, separating areas of differing depth: where such a zone crosses a mid-ocean ridge, it displaces the ridge by faulting.
- fragmentation — the act or process of fragmenting; state of being fragmented.
- frame pointer — A pointer to the current activation record in an implementation of a block structured language.
- franche-comte — a former province in E France: once a part of Burgundy.
- free electron — an electron that is not attached to an atom or molecule and is free to respond to outside forces.
- free-floating — (of an emotional state) lacking an apparent cause, focus, or object; generalized: free-floating hostility.
- frequentation — the practice of frequenting; habit of visiting often.
- friction feed — (printer) A method some printers and plotters use to move paper by rotating one or both of a pair of spring-loaded rubber-coated rollers with the paper sandwiched between them. Friction feed printers are notorious for slipping when the rollers wear out, but can take standard typing paper. For printers with a sheet feeder, friction feed is more appropriate than sprocket feed which requires the holes in the paper to engage with the sprockets of the feed mechanism.
- friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
- friction pile — a pile depending on the friction of surrounding earth for support.
- friction tape — a cloth or plastic adhesive tape, containing a moisture-resistant substance, used especially to insulate and protect electrical wires and conductors.
- frighten into — If you frighten someone into doing something they would not normally do, you make them do it by making them afraid not to do it.
- frontage road — a local road that runs parallel to an expressway, providing access to roadside stores and businesses; a service road.
- frontier post — an official point where people or vehicles cross over a border between countries
- frontispieces — Plural form of frontispiece.
- frontogenesis — the formation or increase of a front or frontal zone.
- frozen assets — business assets that are not convertible into cash, as by government direction or business conditions
- frozen wastes — vast parts of land covered by snow and ice and usually uninhabited by people
- frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
- frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
- fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
- ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
- hartford fern — a climbing or sprawling fern, Lygodium palmatum, of the eastern U.S., having deeply lobed ivylike leaves.
- helen of troy — Also called Helen of Troy. Classical Mythology. the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda and wife of Menelaus whose abduction by Paris was the cause of the Trojan War.
- hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
- imperfections — A fault, blemish, or undesirable feature.
- imperforation — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
- in receipt of — If you are in receipt of something, you have received it or you receive it regularly.
- in respect of — with regard, with reference
- 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
- inferiorities — Plural form of inferiority.
- inferolateral — (anatomy) Both inferior and lateral.
- infiltrometer — a device used to measure the infiltration capacity of a soil.
- informal vote — an invalid vote or ballot
- informalities — Plural form of informality.
- informatively — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
- interferogram — a photographic record of light interference patterns produced with an interferometer, used for recording shock waves and fluid flow patterns.
- interfunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- intolerant of — not able or willing to tolerate
- jeffersontown — a town in N Kentucky.