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

  • finnan haddie — smoked haddock.
  • 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.
  • first reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.
  • fitted carpet — wall-to-wall carpeting
  • five-and-dime — a shop that sells a wide variety of things at a cheap price
  • five-day week — a system in which people work for five days in every seven
  • fixed capital — capital goods, as machinery and tools, that are relatively durable and can be used repeatedly in the production of goods.
  • flabbergasted — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flashed glass — clear glass flashed with a thin layer of colored glass or a coating of metallic oxide.
  • flat-bottomed — (of boats) having a flat bottom.
  • flatbed lorry — a lorry with a flat platform for its body
  • flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
  • flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
  • fleet admiral — the highest ranking naval officer, ranking next above admiral.
  • flight leader — a pilot who commands a flight of military airplanes.
  • floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
  • flog to death — to persuade a person so persistently of the value of (an idea or venture) that he or she loses interest in it
  • flower garden — plot for flowers
  • 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.
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • food additive — additive (def 4).
  • fool's errand — a completely absurd, pointless, or useless errand.
  • foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
  • foolheartedly — Foolishly. In a foolhardy manner. Without thinking about the consequences.
  • for dear life — the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
  • forced labour — labour done because of force; compulsory labour
  • foreordaining — Present participle of foreordain.
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • fort dearborn — a former U.S. fort on the site of Chicago, 1803–37.
  • fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
  • forward delta — The delta which, when combined with a version, creates a child version. See change management
  • fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
  • fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
  • fowler's toad — an eastern U.S. toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri, having an almost patternless white belly.
  • foxtail wedge — a wedge in the split end of a tenon, bolt, or the like, for spreading and securing it when driven into a blind mortise or hole.
  • frame of mind — mental state
  • france modern — an escutcheon blazoned as follows: Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or.
  • fraser island — an island off the south-east coast of Queensland and the largest sand island in the world; contains rainforests, heathlands, and freshwater lakes; a national park (since 1976) and a World Heritage site (since 1992). Area: 1840 sq km (710 sq miles). Pop: 194 (2011)
  • freckle-faced — having a face conspicuously covered with freckles.
  • free and easy — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • free on board — law: delivered by ship free of charge to buyer
  • free-and-easy — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • free-standing — A free-standing piece of furniture or other object is not fixed to anything, or stands on its own away from other things.
  • 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
  • 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
  • frontage road — a local road that runs parallel to an expressway, providing access to roadside stores and businesses; a service road.
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