13-letter words containing a, n, d, f
- french canada — the areas of Canada, esp in the province of Quebec, where French Canadians predominate
- freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
- friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
- 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
- front-loading — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
- frontage road — a local road that runs parallel to an expressway, providing access to roadside stores and businesses; a service road.
- fulminic acid — an unstable acid, CNOH, isomeric with cyanic acid, and known only in the form of its salts.
- fun and games — frivolously diverting activity.
- fundamentally — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- gelandelaufer — a participant in cross-country skiing.
- grandfathered — Simple past tense and past participle of grandfather.
- grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
- habit of mind — If someone has a particular habit of mind, they usually think in that particular way.
- half and half — of half one thing and half another thing
- half-and-half — a mixture of two things, especially in equal or nearly equal proportions.
- half-finished — ended or completed.
- hand and foot — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- handcraftsman — A handicraftsman.
- handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
- hard and fast — strongly binding; not to be set aside or violated: hard-and-fast rules.
- hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- hard-and-fast — strongly binding; not to be set aside or violated: hard-and-fast rules.
- hardship fund — funding offered or applied for due to financial difficulties
- hartford fern — a climbing or sprawling fern, Lygodium palmatum, of the eastern U.S., having deeply lobed ivylike leaves.
- heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
- hefner candle — a German unit of luminous intensity, equal to 0.92 of a candela.
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- huff and puff — be out of breath
- hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- ile de france — a former province in N France, including Paris and the region around it.
- 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
- in default of — If something happens in default of something else, it happens because that other thing does not happen or proves to be impossible.
- in good faith — accordance with standards of honesty, trust, sincerity, etc. (usually preceded by in): If you act in good faith, he'll have no reason to question your motives.
- indefatigable — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
- indefatigably — In an extremely persistent and untiring manner; in an indefatigable manner.
- indemnifiable — Something suitable for indemnification.
- infomediaries — Plural form of infomediary.
- infrared star — a star radiating strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- infrigidation — (obsolete) The act of chilling or making cold; congelation.
- infundibulate — Shaped like a funnel; infundibulated or infundibular.
- jefferson day — April 13, Thomas Jefferson's birthday, a legal holiday in Alabama, sometimes celebrated by the Democratic Party by the holding of fund-raising dinners.
- landfill site — also landfill
- landing craft — any of various flat-bottomed vessels designed to move troops and equipment close to shore.
- landing field — an area of land large and smooth enough for the landing and takeoff of aircraft.
- landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
- landsmanshaft — a fraternal organization made up of immigrants from the same region.
- latent defect — hidden fault, undiscovered flaw
- lifted domain — (theory) In domain theory, a domain with a new bottom element added. Given a domain D, the lifted domain, lift D contains an element lift d corresponding to each element d in D with the same ordering as in D and a new element bottom which is less than every other element in lift D. In functional languages, a lifted domain can be used to model a constructed type, e.g. the type data LiftedInt = K Int contains the values K minint .. K maxint and K bottom, corresponding to the values in Int, and a new value bottom. This denotes the fact that when computing a value v = (K n) the computation of either n or v may fail to terminate yielding the values (K bottom) or bottom respectively. (In LaTeX, a lifted domain or element is indicated by a subscript \perp). See also tuple.