13-letter words containing t, i, f, o, r
- tight forward — one of a number of forwards who are bound wholly into the scrum
- to bear fruit — If the effort that you put into something or a particular way of doing something bears fruit, it is successful and produces good results.
- to catch fire — If an object or substance catches fire, it starts burning.
- to go off air — to stop broadcasting
- to perfection — impeccably, perfectly
- to stand firm — If someone stands firm, they refuse to change their mind about something.
- toasting fork — a long-handled fork used for cooking or toasting frankfurters, marshmallows, bread, etc., usually over an open fire.
- tortilla flat — a novel (1935) by John Steinbeck.
- trading floor — stock exchange: room where trading is done
- traffic court — a court that passes on alleged violations of traffic laws.
- transfrontier — the part of a country that borders another country; boundary; border.
- transfusional — of or relating to transfusion
- trifunctional — pertaining to molecules that can react at three sites.
- trig function — Also called circular function. a function of an angle, as sine or cosine, expressed as the ratio of the sides of a right triangle.
- tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
- trout fishing — angling to catch trout
- tubuliflorous — having the corolla tubular in all the perfect flowers of a head, as certain composite plants.
- two-four time — music: time signature of 2/4
- typhoid fever — Also called typhoid fever. an infectious, often fatal, febrile disease, usually of the summer months, characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration, caused by the typhoid bacillus, which is usually introduced with food or drink.
- unforthcoming — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
- uninformative — not educational
- versification — the act of versifying.
- virgin forest — a forest in its natural state, before it has been explored or exploited by man
- vitrification — act or process of vitrifying; state of being vitrified.
- water milfoil — any of various aquatic plants, chiefly of the genus Myriophyllum, the submerged leaves of which are very finely divided.
- waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
- waterproofing — Chiefly British. a raincoat or other outer coat impervious to water.
- work function — Physics. the least energy necessary to free an electron from a metal surface.
- working stiff — A working stiff is a person who has an ordinary job that is not well-paid.
- writ of error — a writ issued by an appellate court to the court of record where a case was tried, requiring that the record of the trial be sent to the appellate court for examination of alleged errors.
- writ of right — English Law. a writ directed to a person who presided over a feudal court, directing him to render justice between his vassals in a dispute as to ownership of land: usually led to a trial in a royal court if feudal ownership was involved.