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13-letter words containing s, e, t, f, r

  • defloration's — the act of deflowering.
  • deforestation — to divest or clear of forests or trees: Poor planning deforested the area in ten years.
  • dessert knife — a knife used during the dessert course, usually somewhat smaller than a dinner knife.
  • desulfuration — to desulfurize.
  • differentials — Plural form of differential.
  • differentness — not alike in character or quality; distinct in nature; dissimilar: The two brothers are very different, although they are identical twins.
  • disafforested — Simple past tense and past participle of disafforest.
  • disaster fund — a fund set up to relieve people or countries afflicted by a disaster
  • disfigurement — an act or instance of disfiguring.
  • disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
  • distress flag — any flag flown by a vessel to show that it is in distress, as an ensign flown at half-mast or upside down.
  • distressfully — In a distressful way; showing distress.
  • dome fastener — a fastening device consisting of one part with a projecting knob that snaps into a hole on another like part, used esp in closures in clothing
  • doppler shift — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
  • draft version — a preliminary version
  • draftspersons — Plural form of draftsperson.
  • east flanders — a province in W Belgium. 1150 sq. mi. (2980 sq. km). Capital: Ghent.
  • east hartford — a town in central Connecticut.
  • effortfulness — (psychology) subjective experience of exertion or effort involved in performing an activity.
  • epping forest — a forest in E England, northeast of London: formerly a royal hunting ground
  • factory-fresh — coming directly from the factory; brand new
  • false-hearted — having a false or treacherous heart; deceitful; perfidious.
  • familiarities — Plural form of familiarity.
  • fast ethernet — (networking)   A version of Ethernet developed in the 1990s(?) which can carry 100 Mbps compared with standard Ethernet's 10 Mbps. It requires upgraded network cards and hubs. The relevant standards are 100BaseT, 100BaseFX and 100BaseVG.
  • fast follower — a company that is quick to pick up good new ideas from other companies
  • fast telegram — a type of domestic telegram sent at full rate with a minimum charge for 10 words or less and accepted for immediate delivery.
  • fast-breaking — (of a news story) occurring suddenly, and often portending a series of events or further developments in rapid succession.
  • 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.
  • father lasher — a large sea scorpion, Myoxocephalus scorpius, occurring in British and European coastal waters
  • feather grass — any American grass of the genus Stipa, having a feathery appendage.
  • featherbrains — Plural form of featherbrain.
  • featherstitch — an embroidery stitch producing work in which a succession of branches extend alternately on each side of a central stem.
  • feature shock — (jargon)   (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
  • feature story — a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an individual style. Compare follow-up (def 3b), hard news, news story.
  • featurelessly — In a featureless way; without features.
  • febrifacients — Plural form of febrifacient.
  • feeder stream — a tributary that feeds into a larger river, canal, etc
  • fermentations — Plural form of fermentation.
  • fermentitious — of a fermenting nature
  • ferrotungsten — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent tungsten.
  • fertilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of 'fertilization'.
  • festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
  • festschriften — Plural form of festschrift.
  • fever blister — cold sore.
  • fieldstripped — Simple past tense and past participle of fieldstrip.
  • 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
  • fill her tins — to complete a home baking of cakes, biscuits, etc
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