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13-letter words containing s, t, r, a

  • feeder stream — a tributary that feeds into a larger river, canal, etc
  • fermentations — Plural form of fermentation.
  • fertilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of 'fertilization'.
  • festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 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-aid kit — emergency medical set
  • 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.
  • fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • 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-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
  • forest ranger — any of the officers employed by the government to supervise the care and preservation of forests, especially public forests.
  • 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
  • formalisation — Alternative spelling of formalization.
  • formularistic — relating to formularization
  • fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
  • fortunateness — The quality of being fortunate; fortune; luck.
  • foster father — a man who takes the place of a father in raising a child.
  • foster parent — a foster father or foster mother.
  • four-way stop — an intersection of two roads with four stop signs, one facing in each direction
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • fractocumulus — low ragged slightly bulbous cloud, often appearing below nimbostratus clouds during rain
  • fractostratus — low ragged layered cloud often appearing below nimbostratus clouds during rain
  • franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • 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-standing — A free-standing piece of furniture or other object is not fixed to anything, or stands on its own away from other things.
  • french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
  • frontal gyrus — any of several convolutions on the outer surface of the frontal lobe of the cerebrum.
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