13-letter words containing d, e, a, c
- factionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of factionalize.
- 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
- federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
- feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
- feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
- female condom — a type of condom used by women and inserted into the vagina
- 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.
- fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
- 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.
- finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
- 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.
- fitted carpet — wall-to-wall carpeting
- fixed capital — capital goods, as machinery and tools, that are relatively durable and can be used repeatedly in the production of goods.
- flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
- fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
- forced labour — labour done because of force; compulsory labour
- france modern — an escutcheon blazoned as follows: Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or.
- freckle-faced — having a face conspicuously covered with freckles.
- freedom march — an organized march protesting a government's restriction of or lack of support for civil rights, especially such a march in support of racial integration in the U.S. in the 1960s.
- french canada — the areas of Canada, esp in the province of Quebec, where French Canadians predominate
- 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.
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- gaidhealtachd — the area of Scotland in which Scottish Gaelic is the vernacular speech
- galactosidase — An enzyme, such as lactase, that is involved in the hydrolytic breakdown of a galactoside.
- garden center — a store that sells gardening supplies, as seeds, plants, fertilizer, and tools.
- garden centre — A garden centre is a large shop, usually with an outdoor area, where you can buy things for your garden such as plants and gardening tools.
- garden orache — a plant of the goosefoot family, Atriplex hortensis, which is cultivated as a vegetable and used like spinach
- gentisic acid — a crystalline, water-soluble compound, C 7 H 6 O 4 , used chiefly in the form of its sodium salt as an analgesic and diaphoretic.
- get-well card — a greeting card sent to a person who is unwell, expressing a wish for a speedy recovery
- glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
- glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
- glyceric acid — a colorless, syrupy liquid, C 3 H 6 O 4 , obtained by oxidizing glycerol.
- gnathic index — Craniometry. the ratio of the distance from basion to prosthion to the distance from basion to nasion, expressed in percent of the latter.
- good riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
- grade cricket — competitive cricket, in which cricket club teams are arranged in grades
- grammaticized — Simple past tense and past participle of grammaticize.
- grand duchess — the wife or widow of a grand duke.
- grand larceny — larceny in which the value of the goods taken is above a certain legally specified amount.
- grandchildren — a child of one's son or daughter.
- gravel-voiced — speaking in a rough and rasping tone
- greeting card — card1 (def 4).
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- h and d curve — characteristic curve.
- haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
- half-educated — having undergone education: educated people.
- hand-stitched — stitched by hand rather than by a machine
- handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
- hard currency — money that is backed by gold reserves and is readily convertible into foreign currencies.