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13-letter words containing s, r, t

  • 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
  • film industry — all the companies, studios, people etc involved in making commercial films collectively
  • fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour)   A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
  • fireside chat — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
  • 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 chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
  • first edition — the whole number of copies of a literary work printed first, from the same type, and issued together.
  • first officer — first mate.
  • first peoples — any of the indigenous peoples or Indian communities of Canada, especially one formally recognized by the Canadian government.
  • first quarter — the instant, approximately one week after a new moon, when one half of the moon's disk is illuminated by the sun.
  • first reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.
  • first refusal — If someone has first refusal on something that is being sold or offered, they have the right to decide whether or not to buy it or take it before it is offered to anyone else.
  • first sitting — A first sitting is the first period when a meal is served if there is not enough space for everyone to eat at the same time.
  • first-aid kit — emergency medical set
  • first-nighter — a person who often or usually attends the theater, opera, etc., on opening night.
  • fish hatchery — a facility where fish eggs are hatched and the fry raised, especially to stock lakes, streams, and ponds.
  • flabbergasted — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flabbergaster — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
  • flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
  • flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
  • flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
  • flirtatiously — given or inclined to flirtation.
  • floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
  • floristically — In a floristic manner.
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • fluorescently — In a fluorescent manner; using fluorescence.
  • fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
  • fluoroscopist — One who carries out fluoroscopy.
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • 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.
  • folkloristics — folklore (def 2).
  • fons et origo — the source and origin
  • food industry — the industry surrounding the production of food
  • food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
  • for sb's part — When you are describing people's thoughts or actions, you can say for her part or for my part, for example, to introduce what a particular person thinks or does.
  • for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • for the worse — into a less desirable or inferior state or condition
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