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13-letter words containing s, e, l, f, i

  • fieldstripped — Simple past tense and past participle of fieldstrip.
  • figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
  • file transfer — (networking)   Copying a file from one computer to another over a computer network. See also File Transfer Protocol, Kermit, Network File System, rcp, uucp, XMODEM, ZMODEM.
  • filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
  • filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
  • filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
  • filing system — file system
  • filipendulous — Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
  • fill her tins — to complete a home baking of cakes, biscuits, etc
  • film festival — a festival devoted to film
  • film sequence — a short piece of film or extract from a film, depicting a specific action or event
  • filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
  • fin de siecle — the end of the 19th century.
  • finagle's law — (humour)   The generalised or "folk" version of Murphy's Law, fully named "Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives" and usually rendered "Anything that can go wrong, will". One variant favoured among hackers is "The perversity of the Universe tends toward a maximum". The label "Finagle's Law" was popularised by SF author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners; this "Belter" culture professed a religion and/or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy.
  • final whistle — sport: whistle indicating end of match
  • fingal's cave — a cave on the island of Staffa, in the Hebrides, Scotland. 227 feet (69 meters) long; 42 feet (13 meters) wide.
  • finite clause — a clause with a finite verb in its predicate.
  • firmer chisel — a narrow-bladed chisel for paring and mortising, driven by hand pressure or with a mallet.
  • first peoples — any of the indigenous peoples or Indian communities of Canada, especially one formally recognized by the Canadian government.
  • 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.
  • fishing fleet — the boats used in the fishing industry
  • flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
  • flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
  • flemish giant — one of a breed of large domestic rabbits of Belgian origin, having a solid gray, white, or black coat, and raised for its meat and fur.
  • flexible disk — a flexible removable magnetic disk that stores information and can be used to store data for use in a microprocessor
  • flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • fly fisherman — one who fishes by fly-casting
  • 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.
  • 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
  • food supplies — food obtained for a household or for a country, an expedition, etc
  • foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
  • force a smile — to make oneself smile
  • foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
  • foresightless — lacking foresight
  • fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
  • fossil energy — heat energy released by burning fossil fuel
  • fossiliferous — bearing or containing fossils, as rocks or strata.
  • foul-smelling — having a very unpleasant smell
  • fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
  • fraser island — an island off the south-east coast of Queensland and the largest sand island in the world; contains rainforests, heathlands, and freshwater lakes; a national park (since 1976) and a World Heritage site (since 1992). Area: 1840 sq km (710 sq miles). Pop: 194 (2011)
  • frelinghuysen — Frederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • frivolousness — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
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