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13-letter words containing o, s, l, f

  • floor cushion — a cushion placed on the floor of a room for people to sit on
  • florianopolis — a state in S Brazil. 36,856 sq. mi. (95,455 sq. km). Capital: Florianópolis.
  • floristically — In a floristic manner.
  • flourishingly — In a flourishing way; tending to succeed and grow.
  • floutingstock — a laughing-stock; the object of mockery or flouting
  • flower seller — a person who sells flowers for a living, usually from a stall in the street
  • flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
  • fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
  • fluorocarbons — Plural form of fluorocarbon.
  • fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
  • fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
  • fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.
  • fluoroscopist — One who carries out fluoroscopy.
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • flying colors — with flying colors, with an overwhelming victory, triumph, or success: He passed the test with flying colors.
  • 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.
  • folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
  • foldoc source — The source text of FOLDOC is a single plain text file. FOLDOC is also available on paper from your local printer but, at 700,000+ words, that would be about 2000 pages.
  • folkloristics — folklore (def 2).
  • food supplies — food obtained for a household or for a country, an expedition, etc
  • fool's errand — a completely absurd, pointless, or useless errand.
  • foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
  • 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).
  • force a smile — to make oneself smile
  • foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
  • foresightless — lacking foresight
  • forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
  • 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.
  • formularising — Present participle of formularise.
  • formularistic — relating to formularization
  • fort donelson — Fort Donelson.
  • fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
  • forward slash — a short oblique stroke (/), or slash, especially one used in computer programming or to specify an Internet address or computer filename.
  • fossil energy — heat energy released by burning fossil fuel
  • fossiliferous — bearing or containing fossils, as rocks or strata.
  • fossilisation — Alternative spelling of fossilization.
  • fossilization — Geology. to convert into a fossil; replace organic with mineral substances in the remains of an organism.
  • foul-smelling — having a very unpleasant smell
  • foursome reel — a lively Scottish dance for two couples who combine in square and circular formations
  • fowler's toad — an eastern U.S. toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri, having an almost patternless white belly.
  • fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
  • fractionalism — the state of being separate or inharmonious
  • fractionalist — an advocate or supporter of fractionalism
  • fractocumulus — low ragged slightly bulbous cloud, often appearing below nimbostratus clouds during rain
  • french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
  • french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
  • frise aileron — an aircraft wing control surface designed with its leading edge extending forward of its axis of rotation so that when the aileron's trailing edge is raised the leading edge extends below the bottom surface of the wing.
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