13-letter words containing fir
- affirmatively — affirming or assenting; asserting the truth, validity, or fact of something.
- affirming gun — a gun fired by a warship to signal its intention to search a merchant vessel.
- at first hand — If you learn or experience something at first hand, you experience it yourself or learn it directly rather than being told about it by other people.
- biscuit-fired — (of a ceramic object) fired to harden the body.
- bonfire night — Bonfire Night is the popular name for Guy Fawkes Night.
- camp fire boy — a boy who is a member of the Campfire Boys and Girls. Compare Camp Fire Girl.
- cantus firmus — an existing melody used as the basis for a new polyphonic composition
- confirmations — Plural form of confirmation.
- confirmedness — The quality of being confirmed.
- covering fire — firing intended to protect an individual or formation making a movement by forcing the enemy to take cover
- disaffirmance — to deny; contradict.
- disconfirming — Not confirming.
- electric fire — a device that provides heat for a room from an incandescent electric element
- field of fire — the area covered by a weapon or group of weapons firing from a given position.
- fire watching — the job of watching for fires, especially those caused by aerial bombardment
- fireside chat — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
- firing hammer — the part of the firing mechanism of a firearm that ignites the charge by striking the primer
- firing stroke — The firing stroke is the stroke of an engine in which the fuel is burned and energy sent to the piston.
- firmer chisel — a narrow-bladed chisel for paring and mortising, driven by hand pressure or with a mallet.
- firnification — the process by which snow changes into névé.
- first baseman — the player whose position is first base.
- first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- first edition — the whole number of copies of a literary work printed first, from the same type, and issued together.
- first officer — first mate.
- first peoples — any of the indigenous peoples or Indian communities of Canada, especially one formally recognized by the Canadian government.
- first quarter — the instant, approximately one week after a new moon, when one half of the moon's disk is illuminated by the sun.
- first reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.
- first refusal — If someone has first refusal on something that is being sold or offered, they have the right to decide whether or not to buy it or take it before it is offered to anyone else.
- first sitting — A first sitting is the first period when a meal is served if there is not enough space for everyone to eat at the same time.
- first-aid kit — emergency medical set
- first-nighter — a person who often or usually attends the theater, opera, etc., on opening night.
- friendly fire — Insurance. a fire deliberately set and remaining contained, as in a fireplace or boiler, from which any resulting loss cannot be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to hostile fire).
- plunging fire — artillery or other fire that strikes the ground at a steep angle, as from high ground overlooking the target or from a weapon fired at a high angle of elevation.
- porfirio diaz — (Josédela Cruz) Porfirio [haw-se th e lah kroos pawr-fee-ryaw] /hɔˈsɛ ðɛ lɑ ˈkrus pɔrˈfi ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1830–1915, president of Mexico 1877–80, 1884–1911.
- reaffirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
- security firm — a firm which provides guards for buildings, and other security services and personnel
- seventy-first — next after the seventieth; being the ordinal number for 71.
- to catch fire — If an object or substance catches fire, it starts burning.
- to stand firm — If someone stands firm, they refuse to change their mind about something.
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