13-letter words containing s, a, l, e, r, o
- exhilarations — Plural form of exhilaration.
- expostulatory — Of, characterized by, or exhibiting expostulation.
- extrapersonal — Outside of a person; beyond what is personal or individual.
- extrasystoles — Plural form of extrasystole.
- extrasystolia — (medicine) An alteration in the rhythm of the heart due to extrasystoles.
- extrasystolic — Relating to extrasystole, the premature contraction of the heart.
- false colours — a flag to which one is not entitled, flown esp in order to deceive
- false horizon — a line or plane that simulates the horizon, used in altitude-measuring devices or the like.
- false saffron — a red dye used for cotton and for colouring foods and cosmetics, or a drug obtained from the florets of this plant
- faroe islands — islands in Atlantic Ocean
- 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.
- favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
- fertilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of 'fertilization'.
- festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
- field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
- filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
- flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
- flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- fowler's toad — an eastern U.S. toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri, having an almost patternless white belly.
- fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
- 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.
- frosted glass — etched glass with a translucent surface
- galerie house — (in French Louisiana) a house with its main story above the ground floor and with verandas (galeries) for both stories in tiers on at least one side.
- gallows frame — headframe.
- galois theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the application of the theory of finite groups to the solution of algebraic equations.
- galvanometers — Plural form of galvanometer.
- garcia robles — Alfonso [al-fon-soh,, -zoh;; Spanish ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ,, -zoʊ;; Spanish ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1911–91, Mexican diplomat: Nobel Prize 1982.
- garrison life — the life of troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
- garrulousness — Garrulity.
- general costs — the general expenses of running a business
- general store — a store, usually in a rural area, that sells a wide variety of merchandise, as clothing, food, or hardware, but is not divided into departments.
- general synod — the governing body, under Parliament, of the Church of England, made up of the bishops and elected clerical and lay representatives
- generalissimo — the supreme commander of the armed forces.
- gesticulatory — Making a lot of gesticulations.
- ghettoblaster — Alternative form of ghetto blaster.
- global search — a word-processing operation in which a complete computer file or set of files is searched for every occurrence of a particular word or other sequence of characters
- glossographer — a glossator.
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- granuliferous — full of granules, or producing granules
- grave clothes — the wrappings in which a dead body is interred
- hard shoulder — The hard shoulder is the area at the side of a motorway or other road where you are allowed to stop if your car breaks down.