13-letter words containing r, a, s, t, f
- image formats — (graphics, file format) There are many formats used to store images in files. GIF, TIFF and JPEG are very common. Others are BIFF, bmp, Clear, FITS, IFF, NFF, OFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, XBM. Some of these are documented on-line at the following sites:
- infiltrations — Plural form of infiltration.
- informalities — Plural form of informality.
- infraposition — A situation or position beneath.
- infrared star — a star radiating strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- interstratify — to lie in interposed or alternate strata.
- intraspecific — existing or occurring within a species.
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
- leapfrog test — a diagnostic technique using arithmetic or logical operations in a routine to manage the capacity of storage media, transfer data, and check the results.
- lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
- magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
- make sport of — to mock or ridicule; poke fun at
- malformations — Plural form of malformation.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- manufacturers — Plural form of manufacturer.
- market forces — factors driving the economy
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- masterfulness — The quality of being masterful.
- materfamilias — the mother of a family.
- merchant fees — Merchant fees are money charged by a merchant service to a vendor for processing credit card transactions.
- metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
- myofibroblast — (cytology) A cell that is intermediate between a fibroblast and smooth muscle.
- narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
- nectariferous — producing nectar.
- noncolourfast — (of a fabric) having a colour that tends to fade when washed or worn
- of all others — above all others
- of many parts — having many different abilities
- off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
- olfactometers — Plural form of olfactometer.
- orate fratres — the call to prayer, addressed by the celebrant of the Mass to the people just before the Secret.
- out of square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- out-of-stater — a visitor from another state of the U.S.: Many out-of-staters come to our summer music festival.
- paper profits — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
- parasoft corp — Distributors of the message passing system Express.
- passion fruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- paterfamilias — the male head of a household or family, usually the father.
- perfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which sexual spores are formed, as the asci in the sexual stage of the ascomycete.
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- platiniferous — platinum-bearing
- pontificators — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- port of spain — (used with a plural verb) two islands in the N Atlantic Ocean, off the NE coast of Venezuela.
- port-of-spain — (used with a plural verb) two islands in the N Atlantic Ocean, off the NE coast of Venezuela.
- post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- prefix syntax — prefix notation
- presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
- professoriate — a group of professors.
- quarterfinals — Plural form of quarterfinal.
- quartziferous — consisting of or containing quartz: quartziferous rock.