13-letter words containing t, o, r, f, e
- jeffersontown — a town in N Kentucky.
- john fletcher — John, 1579–1625, English dramatist: collaborated with Francis Beaumont 1606?–16; with Philip Massinger 1613–25.
- keep track of — monitor, maintain record of
- kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
- law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
- leapfrog test — a diagnostic technique using arithmetic or logical operations in a routine to manage the capacity of storage media, transfer data, and check the results.
- lethal factor — a gene that under certain conditions causes the death of an organism.
- life-or-death — life-and-death.
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- lorentz force — the force on a charged particle moving through a region containing both electric and magnetic fields.
- lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
- magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
- make sport of — to mock or ridicule; poke fun at
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- market forces — factors driving the economy
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- matter of law — an issue or matter to be determined according to the relevant principles of law.
- 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.
- 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.
- mother figure — a woman embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the female parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its mother.
- mother of all — a female parent.
- mother of god — a title of the Virgin Mary.
- motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- munroe effect — the reinforcement of shock waves in the concave, hollow end of a shaped charge, producing a greater resultant wave and concentrating the explosion along the axis of the charge.
- myelofibrotic — of, relating to or affected by myelofibrosis
- narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
- nectariferous — producing nectar.
- neuroeffector — The junction site, where a motor neuron releases a neurotransmitter to affect a target, that acts like an effector.
- neurofilament — (anatomy) A neurofibril.
- nine-to-fiver — of, relating to, or during the workday, especially the hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. when offices are characteristically open for business: the nine-to-five grind.
- ninety-fourth — next after the ninety-third; being the ordinal number for 94.
- no fewer than — You use no fewer than to emphasize that a number is surprisingly large.
- nondefamatory — Not defamatory.
- nonesterified — relating to a fatty acid that is not esterified with glycerol to make glyceride
- nonfigurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- nonfilterable — incapable of being filtered
- nonforfeiture — Lack of forfeiture; failure to forfeit, or exemption from forfeiting.
- nonfraudulent — Not fraudulent.
- nonproficient — Not proficient.
- nonprofitable — Not profitable; not making profit.
- nonreflecting — Not reflecting.
- nonreflective — Not reflective.
- of all others — above all others
- off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
- off the track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.