13-letter words containing t, o, e, n
- for one thing — the first reason is
- for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- foreign agent — a spy for a foreign country
- forementioned — Mentioned earlier or above; already cited.
- foreshortened — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten.
- forest ranger — any of the officers employed by the government to supervise the care and preservation of forests, especially public forests.
- forget-me-not — either of two small Old World plants, Myosotis sylvatica or M. scorpioides, of the borage family, having a light-blue flower commonly regarded as an emblem of constancy and friendship.
- forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
- forgotten man — a person no longer in the mind of the general public.
- forgottenness — the status of being forgotten
- forked tongue — lying or deceitful talk
- fort dearborn — a former U.S. fort on the site of Chicago, 1803–37.
- fort donelson — Fort Donelson.
- fort duquesne — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1610–88, French naval commander.
- fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
- fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
- fortunateness — The quality of being fortunate; fortune; luck.
- fortuneteller — a person who claims the ability to predict the future.
- forty-seventh — next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
- foster parent — a foster father or foster mother.
- fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
- fractionalise — Alt form fractionalize.
- fractionalize — Divide (someone or something) into separate groups or parts.
- fractiousness — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- 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-floating — (of an emotional state) lacking an apparent cause, focus, or object; generalized: free-floating hostility.
- 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.
- frontage road — a local road that runs parallel to an expressway, providing access to roadside stores and businesses; a service road.
- frontier post — an official point where people or vehicles cross over a border between countries
- frontispieces — Plural form of frontispiece.
- frontogenesis — the formation or increase of a front or frontal zone.
- frozen assets — business assets that are not convertible into cash, as by government direction or business conditions
- frozen wastes — vast parts of land covered by snow and ice and usually uninhabited by people
- frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
- frumentarious — of or relating to wheat or a similar grain
- fuel injector — injector (def 2b).
- functionalise — to make functional.
- functionalize — to make functional.
- functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
- funemployment — the condition of a person who enjoys being out of work
- galactosamine — an amino sugar that is a major component of glycolipids and chondroitin.