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

  • dietary fibre — fibrous substances in fruits and vegetables, such as the structural polymers of cell walls, consumption of which aids digestion and is believed to help prevent certain diseases
  • diffarreation — (historical) A form of divorce, among the Ancient Romans, in which a cake was used.
  • differentials — Plural form of differential.
  • differentiate — to form or mark differently from other such things; distinguish.
  • digital frame — a picture frame containing an LCD screen that is used to display digital photos: Download pictures to your digital frame directly from your camera's memory card.
  • disaffiliated — Simple past tense and past participle of disaffiliate.
  • disaffirmance — to deny; contradict.
  • disafforested — Simple past tense and past participle of disafforest.
  • disaster fund — a fund set up to relieve people or countries afflicted by a disaster
  • disfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of disfranchise.
  • disfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfranchise.
  • disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
  • disinfectants — Plural form of disinfectant.
  • distastefully — In a distasteful manner.
  • distress flag — any flag flown by a vessel to show that it is in distress, as an ensign flown at half-mast or upside down.
  • diversifiable — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
  • draft version — a preliminary version
  • drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
  • 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.
  • 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 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
  • 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.
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