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

  • Île-de-france — a region of N France, in the Paris Basin: part of the duchy of France in the 10th century
  • in advance of — prior to
  • korf, richard — Richard Korf
  • landing craft — any of various flat-bottomed vessels designed to move troops and equipment close to shore.
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • latent defect — hidden fault, undiscovered flaw
  • malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
  • match-funding — the stipulation set by a grant-providing body that the recipients of a grant raise a certain percentage of the money they require, generally a sum more or less equal to that of the sum of money being granted
  • meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
  • mendes-france — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1907–1982, French statesman and economist: premier 1954–55.
  • misclassified — to arrange or organize by classes; order according to class.
  • modifications — Plural form of modification.
  • multi-faceted — having many facets, as a gem.
  • mundification — the act of cleansing a wound
  • mundificative — a cleansing medicine or preparation
  • neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
  • non-fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
  • nonclassified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
  • orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
  • oxford accent — the accent associated with Oxford English
  • peace of mind — reassurance
  • prefabricated — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
  • refuse a card — If you refuse a card, you do not allow someone's credit card to be used to pay a bill.
  • rock-fill dam — a dam built mainly of rocks of various sizes fitted compactly together.
  • ruled surface — a surface that can be generated by a straight line, as a cylinder or cone.
  • safety device — A safety device is a piece of equipment such as a fire extinguisher, safety belt, or burglar alarm that reduces loss or damage from a fire, accident, or break-in.
  • sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
  • scabbard fish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
  • scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
  • schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
  • second of arc — second2 (def 4).
  • self-advocacy — the practice of having mentally handicapped people speak for themselves and control their own affairs, rather than having nonhandicapped people automatically assume responsibility for them
  • self-declared — proclaiming oneself to be
  • self-educated — educated by one's own efforts, especially without formal instruction.
  • self-medicate — to medicate oneself without consulting a physician
  • shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
  • sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
  • spadicifloral — having flowers borne on a spadix
  • sulfonic acid — any of a large group of organic compounds of the structure RSO 2 OH, which are strong acids that give neutral sodium salts: used in the synthesis of phenols, dyes, and other substances.
  • sulfuric acid — a clear, colorless to brownish, dense, oily, corrosive, water-miscible liquid, H 2 SO 4 , usually produced from sulfur dioxide: used chiefly in the manufacture of fertilizers, chemicals, explosives, and dyestuffs and in petroleum refining.
  • the afflicted — afflicted people considered collectively
  • the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
  • the backfield — the quarterback and running backs in a team
  • thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
  • trade deficit — A trade deficit is a situation in which a country imports goods worth more than the value of the goods that it exports.
  • uncamouflaged — the act, means, or result of obscuring things to deceive an enemy, as by painting or screening objects so that they are lost to view in the background, or by making up objects that from a distance have the appearance of fortifications, guns, roads, etc.: Was camouflage used extensively on fighter aircraft during World War I?
  • underfinanced — Underfinanced means the same as underfunded.
  • unfacilitated — to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
  • ward of court — a person, esp a minor or one legally incapable of managing his own affairs, placed under the control or protection of a guardian or of a court
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