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13-letter words containing s, e, n, f

  • fertilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of 'fertilization'.
  • festina lente — hasten slowly
  • festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
  • festschriften — Plural form of festschrift.
  • fetishization — The act or process of fetishizing.
  • feuilletonism — The light, entertaining writing style associated with feuilletons.
  • feuilletonist — a part of a European newspaper devoted to light literature, fiction, criticism, etc.
  • fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
  • fictionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fictionalize.
  • field spaniel — one of a British breed of spaniels having a flat or slightly waved, usually black coat, used for hunting and retrieving game.
  • fifty-seventh — next after the fifty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 57.
  • 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.
  • 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 sequence — a short piece of film or extract from a film, depicting a specific action or event
  • 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
  • fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour)   A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
  • fingal's cave — a cave on the island of Staffa, in the Hebrides, Scotland. 227 feet (69 meters) long; 42 feet (13 meters) wide.
  • finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
  • finite clause — a clause with a finite verb in its predicate.
  • firing stroke — The firing stroke is the stroke of an engine in which the fuel is burned and energy sent to the piston.
  • first baseman — the player whose position is first base.
  • first edition — the whole number of copies of a literary work printed first, from the same type, and issued together.
  • first reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.
  • first-nighter — a person who often or usually attends the theater, opera, etc., on opening night.
  • fish geranium — zonal geranium.
  • fishbone fern — a common Australian fern, Nephrolepsis cordifolia, having fronds with many pinnae
  • fisher of men — an evangelist
  • fishing fleet — the boats used in the fishing industry
  • flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
  • 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.
  • flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
  • 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.
  • foerstner bit — a bit for drilling blind holes, guided from the rim rather than from the center to permit it to enter the wood at an oblique angle.
  • 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
  • fons et origo — the source and origin
  • fool's errand — a completely absurd, pointless, or useless errand.
  • foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
  • for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
  • forbiddenness — a past participle of forbid.
  • forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
  • foreconscious — the preconscious.
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