13-letter words containing t, r, i, g, f
- right-justify — If printed text is right-justified, each line finishes at the same distance from the right-hand edge of the page or column.
- right-to-life — pertaining to or advocating laws making abortion, especially abortion-on-demand, illegal; antiabortion: right-to-life advocates.
- safety margin — something required to ensure safety
- self-catering — holiday accommodation not including meals
- self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- self-righting — able to or designed to right itself or oneself after falling or capsizing.
- self-starting — starter (def 3).
- self-steering — maintaining a course without constant human action
- self-training — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
- sergeant fish — cobia
- significatory — serving to signify
- single father — a father who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- skin grafting — the transplanting of healthy skin from the patient's or another's body to a wound or burn, to form new skin.
- straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- straightforth — straight or directly forward
- strategic fit — (in business) the degree to which the activities of different sections of a business or businesses working together complement one another to achieve competitive advantage and business success
- the far right — the more extreme supporters or advocates of social, political, or economic conservatism or reaction, based generally on a belief that things are better left unchanged
- the foregoing — the one or ones previously mentioned
- tight forward — one of a number of forwards who are bound wholly into the scrum
- to go off air — to stop broadcasting
- toasting fork — a long-handled fork used for cooking or toasting frankfurters, marshmallows, bread, etc., usually over an open fire.
- trade figures — a record of how much a country has paid for goods which it has bought from other countries, compared with how much it has been paid for goods which it has sold to other countries
- trading floor — stock exchange: room where trading is done
- traffic light — a set of electrically operated signal lights used to direct or control traffic at intersections.
- trash farming — cultivation by leaving stubble, etc, on the surface of the soil to serve as a mulch
- 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.
- triple figure — a number made up of three digits.
- trout fishing — angling to catch trout
- understaffing — the condition of being understaffed or of lacking a number of employees
- unfalteringly — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
- unforthcoming — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
- vcc filtering — (electronics) A technique for reducing the amount of Radio Frequency Interference spread via power supply connections. VCC is a common name for the non-ground power supply line in circuits based on bipolar transistors. When part of a circuit generates lots of radio-frequency noise, that portion of the power plane can be isolated from the rest of the circuit and power delivered to it via a low pass filter, usually a PI filter, as shown in the diagram below.
- virgin forest — a forest in its natural state, before it has been explored or exploited by man
- 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.
- weightlifters — Plural form of weightlifter.
- working stiff — A working stiff is a person who has an ordinary job that is not well-paid.
- 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.