13-letter words containing s, f, e
- for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- forbiddenness — a past participle of forbid.
- force a smile — to make oneself smile
- forcing house — a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened
- forearm smash — a blow like a punch delivered with the forearm in certain types of wrestling
- foreconscious — the preconscious.
- foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- foreshortened — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten.
- foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
- foresightless — lacking foresight
- 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
- 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
- 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
- fossiliferous — bearing or containing fossils, as rocks or strata.
- foster father — a man who takes the place of a father in raising a child.
- foster mother — a woman who takes the place of a mother in raising a child.
- foster parent — a foster father or foster mother.
- foster sister — a girl brought up with another child of different parents.
- 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.
- foursome reel — a lively Scottish dance for two couples who combine in square and circular formations
- fourth estate — the journalistic profession or its members; the press.
- fowler's toad — an eastern U.S. toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri, having an almost patternless white belly.
- 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)
- frederiksberg — a city in E Denmark: a part of Copenhagen.
- frederiksburg — borough on Zealand island, Denmark: suburb of Copenhagen: pop. 88,000
- free and easy — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- free software — (software) Software that everyone is free to copy, redistribute and modify. That implies free software must be available as source code, hence "free open source software" - "FOSS". It is usually also free of charge, though anyone can sell free software so long as they don't impose any new restrictions on its redistribution or use. The widespread acceptance of this definition and free software itself owes a great deal to Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. There are many other kinds of "free software" in the sense of "free of charge". See "-ware".
- 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-spirited — characterized by independence and unconventionality
- 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.
- freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.