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13-letter words containing fi

  • field service — military service performed in the field
  • field servoid — (jargon, abuse)   /fee'ld ser'voyd/ A play on "android", a derogatory term for a representative of a field service organisation (see field circus), suggesting an unintelligent rule-driven approach to servicing computer hardware.
  • field spaniel — one of a British breed of spaniels having a flat or slightly waved, usually black coat, used for hunting and retrieving game.
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • field winding — the electrically conducting circuit, usually a number of coils wound on individual poles and connected in series, that produces the magnetic field in a motor or generator.
  • field-glasses — Field-glasses are the same as binoculars.
  • fieldstripped — Simple past tense and past participle of fieldstrip.
  • fifth disease — Pathology. a mild infection, most often seen in children or young adults, caused by a small virus ((the human parvovirus B19)) and marked by a blotchy rash on the cheeks, arms, and legs.
  • fifty-seventh — next after the fifty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 57.
  • fighter pilot — sb who pilots a bomber plane
  • fighting cock — a gamecock.
  • fighting fish — any of several brightly colored labyrinth fishes of the genus Betta, found in Southeast Asia.
  • fighting word — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • figure of fun — If you describe someone as a figure of fun, you mean that people think they are ridiculous.
  • figure-ground — a property of perception in which there is a tendency to see parts of a visual field as solid, well-defined objects standing out against a less distinct background.
  • figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
  • filamentation — The growth of filaments.
  • file transfer — (networking)   Copying a file from one computer to another over a computer network. See also File Transfer Protocol, Kermit, Network File System, rcp, uucp, XMODEM, ZMODEM.
  • filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
  • filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
  • filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
  • filing system — file system
  • filipendulous — Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
  • fill her tins — to complete a home baking of cakes, biscuits, etc
  • fill the bill — a statement of money owed for goods or services supplied: He paid the hotel bill when he checked out.
  • fill-out form — (programming)   A type of user interface used, for example, on the web, to organise a set of questions or options for the user so that it resembles a traditional paper form that is filled out. Typical query types are: fill-in-the-blank (text), menu of options, select zero or more, or select exactly one ("radio buttons"). Most web browsers support fill-out forms. Overview.
  • fille de joie — a prostitute.
  • film festival — a festival devoted to film
  • film industry — all the companies, studios, people etc involved in making commercial films collectively
  • film première — the first performance of a particular film in a cinema
  • film recorder — a photographic device for producing a sound strip on a motion-picture film.
  • film sequence — a short piece of film or extract from a film, depicting a specific action or event
  • filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
  • filter coffee — coffee made by filtering hot water through ground coffee
  • filter factor — a number indicating the increased exposure that a particular film should receive when a photograph is taken using a particular filter.
  • filter feeder — an aquatic animal that feeds on particles or small organisms strained out of water by circulating them through its system: includes most of the stationary feeders, as clams, oysters, barnacles, corals, sea squirts, and sponges.
  • filterability — The state or condition of being filterable.
  • fin de siecle — the end of the 19th century.
  • finagle's law — (humour)   The generalised or "folk" version of Murphy's Law, fully named "Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives" and usually rendered "Anything that can go wrong, will". One variant favoured among hackers is "The perversity of the Universe tends toward a maximum". The label "Finagle's Law" was popularised by SF author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners; this "Belter" culture professed a religion and/or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy.
  • final curtain — end of a theatre performance
  • final edition — the last version of a particular issue of a daily newspaper
  • final whistle — sport: whistle indicating end of match
  • financing gap — the difference between a country's requirements for foreign exchange to finance its debts and imports and its income from overseas
  • finback whale — rorqual
  • fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour)   A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
  • fingal's cave — a cave on the island of Staffa, in the Hebrides, Scotland. 227 feet (69 meters) long; 42 feet (13 meters) wide.
  • finger buffet — a buffet meal at which food that may be picked up with the fingers (finger food), such as canapés or vol-au-vents, is served
  • finger puppet — a miniature puppet fitting over and manipulated by one finger.
  • fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
  • fingerpainted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerpaint.
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