13-letter words containing s, o, n
- food shopping — shopping to buy food
- 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.
- 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
- formalisation — Alternative spelling of formalization.
- formularising — Present participle of formularise.
- 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.
- fortitudinous — having or showing fortitude; marked by bravery or courage.
- 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
- fossilisation — Alternative spelling of fossilization.
- fossilization — Geology. to convert into a fossil; replace organic with mineral substances in the remains of an organism.
- 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.
- fractionalism — the state of being separate or inharmonious
- fractionalist — an advocate or supporter of fractionalism
- fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- francis bacon — Francis (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans) 1561–1626, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.
- franz josef i — English name Francis Joseph I. 1830–1916, emperor of Austria (1848–1916) and king of Hungary (1867–1916)
- 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.
- 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.
- frontal gyrus — any of several convolutions on the outer surface of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum.
- 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
- frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
- frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
- fugaciousness — (obsolete) fugacity.
- full of beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.