13-letter words containing r, e, s, u, f
- featurelessly — In a featureless way; without features.
- fermentitious — of a fermenting nature
- ferociousness — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- ferrotungsten — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent tungsten.
- ferrous oxide — a black powder, FeO, insoluble in water, soluble in acid.
- figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
- filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
- filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
- filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
- fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour) A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
- first quarter — the instant, approximately one week after a new moon, when one half of the moon's disk is illuminated by the sun.
- first refusal — If someone has first refusal on something that is being sold or offered, they have the right to decide whether or not to buy it or take it before it is offered to anyone else.
- fish geranium — zonal geranium.
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
- fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
- fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- flying saucer — any of various disk-shaped objects allegedly seen flying at high speeds and altitudes, often with extreme changes in speed and direction, and thought by some to be manned by intelligent beings from outer space.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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).
- forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
- foreconscious — the preconscious.
- forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
- fort duquesne — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1610–88, French naval commander.
- fortunateness — The quality of being fortunate; fortune; luck.
- fossiliferous — bearing or containing fossils, as rocks or strata.
- four horsemen — four riders on white, red, black, and pale horses symbolizing pestilence, war, famine, and death, respectively. Rev. 6:2–8.
- foursome reel — a lively Scottish dance for two couples who combine in square and circular formations
- fourth estate — the journalistic profession or its members; the press.
- fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- frederiksburg — borough on Zealand island, Denmark: suburb of Copenhagen: pop. 88,000
- freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
- frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
- freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
- frightfulness — The quality of being frightful.
- frivolousness — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
- fruitlessness — The quality of being fruitless.
- frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
- frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
- full-strength — If a team or army is at full strength, all the members that it needs or usually has are present.
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- furaciousness — the quality of being furacious or thievish
- furshlugginer — crazy; foolish
- gallimaufries — Plural form of gallimaufry.
- garnetiferous — containing or yielding garnets.
- geminiflorous — having flowers arranged in pairs.
- gemmuliferous — producing or reproducing by gemmules.