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13-letter words containing d, e, a

  • feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
  • female condom — a type of condom used by women and inserted into the vagina
  • female thread — a helical groove in a cylindrical hole formed by a tap or lathe tool
  • ferdinand iii — Ferdinand II (def 1).
  • ferdinand vii — 1784–1833, king of Spain 1808, 1814–33.
  • ferret badger — any of several small omnivores of the genus Melogale, of southern and eastern Asia, having a bushy tail and distinctive white or yellow markings on a black face.
  • ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
  • feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
  • 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.
  • fifth disease — Pathology. a mild infection, most often seen in children or young adults, caused by a small virus ((the human parvovirus B19)) and marked by a blotchy rash on the cheeks, arms, and legs.
  • figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
  • final edition — the last version of a particular issue of a daily newspaper
  • fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour)   A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
  • fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
  • fingerpainted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerpaint.
  • finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
  • 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).
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