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

  • flame-thrower — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
  • flannel-mouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
  • flash fiction — very short works of fiction that are typically no longer than a couple of pages and may be as short as one paragraph.
  • flat-bottomed — (of boats) having a flat bottom.
  • flatbed lorry — a lorry with a flat platform for its body
  • flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
  • flirtatiously — given or inclined to flirtation.
  • float chamber — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
  • floatcut file — file with rows of parallel teeth
  • floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
  • floating dock — a submersible, floating structure used as a dry dock, having a floor that is submerged, slipped under a floating vessel, and then raised so as to raise the vessel entirely out of the water.
  • floating gang — a group of railroad workers who service or repair the track but are not assigned to a particular section.
  • floating rate — fluctuating exchange rate
  • floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
  • floating roof — A floating roof is an internal roof of a fuel storage tank.
  • floating vote — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
  • floccillation — a delirious picking of the bedclothes by the patient, as in certain fevers.
  • flog to death — to persuade a person so persistently of the value of (an idea or venture) that he or she loses interest in it
  • floor trading — trading by personal contact on the floor of a market or exchange
  • floricultural — Of or pertaining to floriculture.
  • floristically — In a floristic manner.
  • fluctuational — Of, pertaining to, or resulting from fluctuation(s).
  • fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
  • fluoroacetate — a toxic chemical compound, C2H2FNaO2, occurring naturally in certain plants, and commonly used as rat poison
  • 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.
  • foliage plant — any plant grown chiefly for its attractive leaves.
  • fonctionnaire — a civil servant
  • fondant icing — icing made from fondant
  • fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
  • food additive — additive (def 4).
  • foolheartedly — Foolishly. In a foolhardy manner. Without thinking about the consequences.
  • fooling about — the act of speaking or acting in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner
  • foot-dragging — reluctance or failure to proceed or act promptly.
  • football game — soccer match
  • 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.
  • foreign agent — a spy for a foreign country
  • forest ranger — any of the officers employed by the government to supervise the care and preservation of forests, especially public forests.
  • forgotten man — a person no longer in the mind of the general public.
  • 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
  • formal theory — 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.
  • formalization — to make formal, especially for the sake of official or authorized acceptance: to formalize an understanding by drawing up a legal contract.
  • formidability — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
  • formularistic — relating to formularization
  • fort campbell — a military reservation in SW Kentucky and NW Tennessee, NW of Clarksville, Tenn., and SW of Hopkinsville, Ky.
  • fort dearborn — a former U.S. fort on the site of Chicago, 1803–37.
  • fort huachuca — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in SE Arizona, SE of Tucson.
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