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13-letter words containing t, f, o, r

  • forthbringing — Present participle of forthbring.
  • fortification — the act of fortifying or strengthening.
  • fortississimo — (music) The musical notation indicating that the piece is played louder than fortissimo.
  • fortitudinous — having or showing fortitude; marked by bravery or courage.
  • fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
  • fortran-linda — Scientific Computer Assocs <[email protected]>.
  • fortunateness — The quality of being fortunate; fortune; luck.
  • fortuneteller — a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
  • forty-eightmo — a book size of about 2½ × 4 inches (6 × 10 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 48 leaves or 96 pages. Abbreviation: 48mo, 48°.
  • forty-seventh — next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
  • forward delta — The delta which, when combined with a version, creates a child version. See change management
  • 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-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
  • foundationary — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
  • 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.
  • fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
  • 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
  • fractionalize — Divide (someone or something) into separate groups or parts.
  • fractionating — Present participle of fractionate.
  • fractionation — the act or process of fractionating.
  • 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
  • fracture zone — a long, narrow rift on the ocean floor, separating areas of differing depth: where such a zone crosses a mid-ocean ridge, it displaces the ridge by faulting.
  • fragmentation — the act or process of fragmenting; state of being fragmented.
  • frame pointer — A pointer to the current activation record in an implementation of a block structured language.
  • franche-comte — a former province in E France: once a part of Burgundy.
  • free electron — an electron that is not attached to an atom or molecule and is free to respond to outside forces.
  • 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-floating — (of an emotional state) lacking an apparent cause, focus, or object; generalized: free-floating hostility.
  • freight depot — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport
  • freight house — a depot or storage place for freight.
  • frequentation — the practice of frequenting; habit of visiting often.
  • friction feed — (printer)   A method some printers and plotters use to move paper by rotating one or both of a pair of spring-loaded rubber-coated rollers with the paper sandwiched between them. Friction feed printers are notorious for slipping when the rollers wear out, but can take standard typing paper. For printers with a sheet feeder, friction feed is more appropriate than sprocket feed which requires the holes in the paper to engage with the sprockets of the feed mechanism.
  • friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
  • friction pile — a pile depending on the friction of surrounding earth for support.
  • friction tape — a cloth or plastic adhesive tape, containing a moisture-resistant substance, used especially to insulate and protect electrical wires and conductors.
  • frighten into — If you frighten someone into doing something they would not normally do, you make them do it by making them afraid not to do it.
  • from the wood — (of a beverage) from a wooden container rather than a metal or glass one
  • front-loading — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
  • frontage road — a local road that runs parallel to an expressway, providing access to roadside stores and businesses; a service road.
  • 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
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