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13-letter words containing a, f, e, r, d

  • refuse a card — If you refuse a card, you do not allow someone's credit card to be used to pay a bill.
  • regardless of — in spite of
  • rifle grenade — a grenade designed to be fired from a grenade launcher attached to the muzzle of a rifle or carbine.
  • ruled surface — a surface that can be generated by a straight line, as a cylinder or cone.
  • saddle oxford — saddle shoe.
  • sandfly fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in hot, dry areas, characterized by fever, eye pain, and sometimes a rash, transmitted by sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus.
  • saturated fat — a type of single-bond animal or vegetable fat, as that found in butter, meat, egg yolks, and coconut or palm oil, that in humans tends to increase cholesterol levels in the blood. Compare saturated (def 3).
  • 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-absorbed — preoccupied with one's thoughts, interests, etc.
  • self-declared — proclaiming oneself to be
  • self-depraved — corrupt, wicked, or perverted.
  • self-enamored — to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with): to be enamored of a certain lady; a brilliant woman with whom he became enamored.
  • self-ordained — to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
  • self-pampered — to treat or gratify with extreme or excessive indulgence, kindness, or care: to pamper a child; to pamper one's stomach.
  • self-prepared — properly expectant, organized, or equipped; ready: prepared for a hurricane.
  • send away for — order by post
  • shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
  • short-staffed — A company or place that is short-staffed does not have enough people working there.
  • slatted floor — a floor made with slats of wood so that water can drain away
  • staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
  • stuffed derma — kishke.
  • sugar of lead — lead acetate.
  • sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.
  • tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
  • the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
  • the-godfather — a novel (1969) by Mario Puzo.
  • thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
  • timber-framed — framed by exposed timbers
  • 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.
  • trade figures — a record of how much a country has paid for goods which it has bought from other countries, compared with how much it has been paid for goods which it has sold to other countries
  • transfer desk — the place in an airport where you arrange a transfer from one flight to another
  • twelfth grade — (in the US) the final year of secondary school after which students usually graduate at age 17 or 18
  • ultrararefied — extremely rarefied
  • under pain of — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
  • underfinanced — Underfinanced means the same as underfunded.
  • underinflated — lacking sufficient air pressure
  • understaffing — the condition of being understaffed or of lacking a number of employees
  • unfenestrated — having windows; windowed; characterized by windows.
  • unthriftyhead — thriftlessness
  • untransferred — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • untransformed — not transformed; not having been transformed
  • water-proofed — impervious to water.
  • waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
  • well-favoured — of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.
  • west flanders — a province in W Belgium. 1249 sq. mi. (3235 sq. km). Capital: Bruges.
  • west hartford — a town in central Connecticut.
  • wildlife park — animal reserve
  • winding frame — a machine on which yarn or thread is wound.
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