13-letter words containing fe
- disfellowship — (in some Protestant religions) the status of a member who, because of some serious infraction of church policy, has been denied the church's sacraments and any post of responsibility and is officially shunned by other members.
- disinfectants — Plural form of disinfectant.
- domino effect — the cumulative effect that results when one event precipitates a series of like events.
- drop-dead fee — a fee paid to an organization lending money to a company that is hoping to use it to finance a takeover bid. The fee is only paid if the bid fails and interest charges are only incurred if the money is needed
- ear infection — an infection that affects the ear
- edison effect — the phenomenon of the flow of electric current when an electrode sealed inside the bulb of an incandescent lamp is connected to the positive terminal of the lamp.
- effectiveness — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
- effectivities — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
- effectualness — The state or condition of being effectual.
- effervescence — to give off bubbles of gas, as fermenting liquors.
- effervescency — (archaic) effervescence.
- enrolment fee — the amount of money payable when you enrol on a course, at a university, etc
- enteric fever — typhoid
- equidifferent — equilateral; having differences that are equal
- facts of life — any aspect of human existence that must be acknowledged or regarded as unalterable: Old age is a fact of life.
- fearmongering — The action of deliberately arousing public fear or alarm about a particular issue.
- feasibilities — Plural form of feasibility.
- feast of lots — Purim.
- feather grass — any American grass of the genus Stipa, having a feathery appendage.
- feather tract — pteryla.
- featherbedded — Simple past tense and past participle of featherbed.
- featherbrains — Plural form of featherbrain.
- featherheaded — featherbrain.
- featherstitch — an embroidery stitch producing work in which a succession of branches extend alternately on each side of a central stem.
- featherweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a bantamweight and a lightweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 126 pounds (57 kg).
- feature creep — creeping featurism
- feature shock — (jargon) (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
- feature story — a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an individual style. Compare follow-up (def 3b), hard news, news story.
- featurelessly — In a featureless way; without features.
- febrifacients — Plural form of febrifacient.
- federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
- fee-splitting — the practice of dividing a fee for professional services between two professional persons, as between a referring doctor and a specialist, without the knowledge of the client.
- feeble-minded — lacking the normal mental powers.
- feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
- feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
- feeder school — a junior school whose pupils go to a specific secondary school
- feeder stream — a tributary that feeds into a larger river, canal, etc
- feinschmecker — gourmet.
- feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
- felicitations — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
- fellow inmate — sb in same prison
- fellow member — someone who is a member of the same organization or society as you
- fellow worker — someone you work with
- fellowshiping — Present participle of fellowship.
- fellowshipped — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
- feloniousness — The quality of being felonious.
- felony murder — a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
- female condom — a type of condom used by women and inserted into the vagina
- female thread — a helical groove in a cylindrical hole formed by a tap or lathe tool
- fence-mending — the practice of reestablishing or strengthening personal, business, or political contacts and relationships by conciliation or negotiation, as after a dispute, disagreement, or period of inactivity.