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13-letter words that end in t

  • flemish giant — one of a breed of large domestic rabbits of Belgian origin, having a solid gray, white, or black coat, and raised for its meat and fur.
  • floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
  • flugelhornist — One who plays the flugelhorn.
  • fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
  • fluoroscopist — One who carries out fluoroscopy.
  • flying picket — (in industrial disputes) a member of a group of pickets organized to be able to move quickly from place to place
  • foerstner bit — a bit for drilling blind holes, guided from the rim rather than from the center to permit it to enter the wood at an oblique angle.
  • foliage plant — any plant grown chiefly for its attractive leaves.
  • fooling about — the act of speaking or acting in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner
  • for sb's part — When you are describing people's thoughts or actions, you can say for her part or for my part, for example, to introduce what a particular person thinks or does.
  • foreign agent — a spy for a foreign country
  • 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.
  • foster parent — a foster father or foster mother.
  • fractionalist — an advocate or supporter of fractionalism
  • franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • freight agent — a representative of a common carrier who manages the freight business in a local district.
  • freight depot — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport
  • fridge magnet — a small flat decorative object with a magnet on its back which is used to attach it to the front door of a fridge or other domestic appliance
  • frontier post — an official point where people or vehicles cross over a border between countries
  • fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
  • functionalist — a person who advocates, or works according to, the principles of functionalism.
  • funemployment — the condition of a person who enjoys being out of work
  • fusarium wilt — a disease of plants, characterized by damping-off, wilting, and a brown dry rot, caused by fungi of the genus Fusarium.
  • garnisheement — the process of arresting a debtor's money or property from the hands of a third party
  • gastroscopist — One who carries out gastroscopy.
  • gemutlichkeit — warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.
  • general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
  • general court — the state legislature of Massachusetts or New Hampshire.
  • genetic drift — random changes in the frequency of alleles in a gene pool, usually of small populations.
  • geostrategist — A geopolitical strategist; one concerned with the strategies of political geography.
  • gerontologist — the branch of science that deals with aging and the problems of aged persons.
  • get the shaft — to be tricked or cheated
  • ghiordes knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the parallel ends of looped yarn alternate with two threads of warp, producing an uneven pile effect.
  • gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
  • gill filament — one of the threadlike processes forming the respiratory surface of a gill.
  • give sb heart — If something gives you heart, it makes you feel more confident or happy about something.
  • glacial drift — material, as gravel, sand, or clay, transported and deposited by a glacier or by glacial meltwater.
  • glazing agent — substance used to varnish
  • gliding joint — arthrodia.
  • go to the mat — a piece of fabric made of plaited or woven rushes, straw, hemp, or similar fiber, or of some other pliant material, as rubber, used as a protective covering on a floor or other surface, to wipe the shoes on, etc.
  • gopher client — (networking)   A program which runs on your local computer and provides a user interface to the Gopher protocol and to gopher servers. Web browsers can act as Gopher clients and simple Gopher-only clients are available for ordinary terminals, the X Window System, GNU Emacs, and other systems.
  • grade cricket — competitive cricket, in which cricket club teams are arranged in grades
  • gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
  • grain of salt — salt crystal
  • grandad shirt — a long-sleeved collarless shirt
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • grape harvest — gathering of ripe grapes from the vine
  • grapple plant — a procumbent, thorny plant, Harpagophytum procumbens, of southern Africa.
  • gravity fault — a fault along an inclined plane in which the upper side or hanging wall appears to have moved downward with respect to the lower side or footwall (opposed to reverse fault).
  • great basinet — a basinet having a beaver permanently attached.
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