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

  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • foreshortened — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten.
  • forest ranger — any of the officers employed by the government to supervise the care and preservation of forests, especially public forests.
  • forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
  • forgivingness — disposed to forgive; indicating forgiveness: a forgiving soul; a forgiving smile.
  • forgottenness — the status of being forgotten
  • fort donelson — Fort Donelson.
  • fort duquesne — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1610–88, French naval commander.
  • fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
  • fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
  • fortunateness — The quality of being fortunate; fortune; luck.
  • forty-seventh — next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
  • fosamprenavir — (pharmaceutical drug) An anti-retroviral prodrug of the protease inhibitor amprenavir. It is used to treat HIV infected patients.
  • fossil energy — heat energy released by burning fossil fuel
  • foster parent — a foster father or foster mother.
  • foul-smelling — having a very unpleasant smell
  • fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
  • four horsemen — four riders on white, red, black, and pale horses symbolizing pestilence, war, famine, and death, respectively. Rev. 6:2–8.
  • fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
  • fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
  • franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • franz josef i — English name Francis Joseph I. 1830–1916, emperor of Austria (1848–1916) and king of Hungary (1867–1916)
  • 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)
  • free and easy — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • free-and-easy — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • free-spending — spending or tending to spend freely: If you don't mend your free-spending ways, you'll go bankrupt.
  • free-standing — A free-standing piece of furniture or other object is not fixed to anything, or stands on its own away from other things.
  • free-swimming — (of aquatic organisms) not attached to a base nor joined in a colony; capable of swimming about freely.
  • free-swinging — recklessly daring in action or style: free-swinging stock market speculators.
  • frelinghuysenFrederick Theodore, 1817–85, U.S. statesman.
  • french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
  • french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
  • french system — a method of spinning in which fibers of extremely short-staple wool are not twisted before being spun.
  • french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
  • freshman week — a week at the beginning of the school year with a program planned to orient entering students, especially at a college.
  • 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.
  • friendsgiving — a gathering of friends to celebrate Thanksgiving with a feast, falling near or on Thanksgiving Day, in contrast to the traditional celebrations that typically involve family.
  • friese-greene — William. 1855–1921, British photographer. He invented (with Mortimer Evans) the first practicable motion-picture camera
  • 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.
  • frontier post — an official point where people or vehicles cross over a border between countries
  • frontispieces — Plural form of frontispiece.
  • frontogenesis — the formation or increase of a front or frontal zone.
  • frozen assets — business assets that are not convertible into cash, as by government direction or business conditions
  • frozen wastes — vast parts of land covered by snow and ice and usually uninhabited by people
  • 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
  • fugaciousness — (obsolete) fugacity.
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