13-letter words containing t, i, f, o, r
- graffiti-bomb — Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
- grain of salt — salt crystal
- gratification — the state of being gratified; great satisfaction.
- habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
- hertfordshire — a county in SE England. 631 sq. mi. (1635 sq. km).
- horrification — That which causes horror.
- hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
- image formats — (graphics, file format) There are many formats used to store images in files. GIF, TIFF and JPEG are very common. Others are BIFF, bmp, Clear, FITS, IFF, NFF, OFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, XBM. Some of these are documented on-line at the following sites:
- imperfections — A fault, blemish, or undesirable feature.
- imperforation — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
- import tariff — a tax or duty imposed on imported goods
- in receipt of — If you are in receipt of something, you have received it or you receive it regularly.
- in respect of — with regard, with reference
- inertia force — an imaginary force supposed to act upon an accelerated body, equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the resultant of the real forces
- inferiorities — Plural form of inferiority.
- inferolateral — (anatomy) Both inferior and lateral.
- infiltrations — Plural form of infiltration.
- infiltrometer — a device used to measure the infiltration capacity of a soil.
- informal vote — an invalid vote or ballot
- informalities — Plural form of informality.
- informatician — a person who works or studies in the field of informatics
- informational — knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance; news: information concerning a crime.
- informatively — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- informatorily — in an informatory fashion
- infostructure — The technical infrastructure supporting an information system.
- infraposition — A situation or position beneath.
- infrigidation — (obsolete) The act of chilling or making cold; congelation.
- infructuously — in an infructuous or unfruitful manner; fruitlessly
- inns of court — (in England) the four private unincorporated societies in London that function as a law school and have the exclusive privilege of calling candidates to the English bar
- interferogram — a photographic record of light interference patterns produced with an interferometer, used for recording shock waves and fluid flow patterns.
- interfunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- intolerant of — not able or willing to tolerate
- justificatory — serving to justify; providing justification.
- killing frost — the occurrence of temperatures cold enough to kill all but the hardiest vegetation, especially the last such occurrence in spring and the first in fall, events that limit the agricultural growing season.
- life-or-death — life-and-death.
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
- malformations — Plural form of malformation.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- matrifocality — The state or condition of being matrifocal; matriarchy.
- mesne profits — rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
- metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
- metrification — metrication.
- microfelsitic — (of a rock) showing evidence of crystallization having begun, but not yet having formed any crystals
- microfilament — a minute, narrow tubelike cell structure composed of a protein similar to actin, occurring singly and in bundles, involved in cytoplasmic movement and changes in cell shape.
- microsoft dos — Microsoft Disk Operating System
- microsoft iis — Internet Information Server
- mole fraction — the ratio of the number of moles of a given component of a mixture to the total number of moles of all the components.
- morning after — a period, as in the morning, when the aftereffects of excessive self-indulgence during the previous evening are felt, especially the aftereffects of excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages.