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13-letter words containing a, d, f, i

  • drawing frame — a machine used to attenuate and straighten fibers by having them pass, in sliver form, through a series of double rollers, each pair of which revolves at a slightly greater speed than the preceding pair and reduces the number of strands originally fed into the machine to one extended fibrous strand doubled or redoubled in length.
  • dwarf ginseng — a plant, Panax trifolius, of eastern North America, having globe-shaped clusters of small, white flowers and yellow fruit.
  • dysfunctional — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
  • eff and blind — to use obscene language
  • face validity — the extent to which a psychological test appears to measure what it is intended to measure
  • factionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of factionalize.
  • faint-hearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
  • fairly-traded — bought from the producer at a guaranteed price
  • false diamond — any of a number of semiprecious stones that resemble diamond, such as zircon and white topaz
  • family credit — (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
  • family doctor — a general practitioner.
  • family friend — intimate acquaintance of one's family
  • family-minded — devoted to one's family
  • faroe islands — islands in Atlantic Ocean
  • farther india — a peninsula in SE Asia, between India and China: consists of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Malaysia
  • fashion model — sb employed to show off designer clothes
  • fast dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another, merging the two scenes imperceptibly
  • fault-finding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
  • feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
  • ferdinand iii — Ferdinand II (def 1).
  • ferdinand vii — 1784–1833, king of Spain 1808, 1814–33.
  • ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
  • feudalization — to make feudal; bring under the feudal system.
  • fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
  • fictionalized — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
  • fiddle around — waste time doing sth trivial
  • fiddle-faddle — nonsense.
  • fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
  • field battery — a small unit of usually four field guns
  • field captain — a member of a team taking active part in a game who is authorized to make decisions for the team, especially in regard to planning plays, deciding whether to accept penalties called by an official against the opponents, etc.
  • field glasses — Usually, field glasses. binoculars for use out of doors.
  • field marshal — an officer of the highest military rank in the British and certain other armies, and of the second highest rank in the French army.
  • 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-glasses — Field-glasses are the same as binoculars.
  • 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.
  • figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
  • final edition — the last version of a particular issue of a daily newspaper
  • fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour)   A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
  • fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
  • fingerpainted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerpaint.
  • finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
  • finnan haddie — smoked haddock.
  • 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.
  • first reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.
  • first-aid kit — emergency medical set
  • fitted carpet — wall-to-wall carpeting
  • five-and-dime — a shop that sells a wide variety of things at a cheap price
  • five-day week — a system in which people work for five days in every seven
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