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

  • 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).
  • foolheartedly — Foolishly. In a foolhardy manner. Without thinking about the consequences.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • frosted glass — etched glass with a translucent surface
  • full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
  • fundamentally — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • get a load of — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
  • grandfathered — Simple past tense and past participle of grandfather.
  • grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
  • half-deserted — (of a place) not having many inhabitants, visitors, etc
  • half-digested — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
  • half-educated — having undergone education: educated people.
  • half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
  • halfheartedly — Without enthusiasm nor interest.
  • hard-featured — having stern, harsh, or unattractive features.
  • hartford fern — a climbing or sprawling fern, Lygodium palmatum, of the eastern U.S., having deeply lobed ivylike leaves.
  • hatchet-faced — having a face with narrow dimensions and sharp features
  • head of state — the person who holds the highest position in a national government: a meeting of heads of state.
  • head of steam — momentum; driving power
  • head of water — a quantity of water
  • hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
  • hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
  • 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.
  • indefatigable — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
  • indefatigably — In an extremely persistent and untiring manner; in an indefatigable manner.
  • infrared star — a star radiating strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  • infundibulate — Shaped like a funnel; infundibulated or infundibular.
  • kiss of death — a fatal or destructive relationship or action: The support of the outlawed group was the kiss of death to the candidate.
  • landfill site — also landfill
  • latent defect — hidden fault, undiscovered flaw
  • life-or-death — life-and-death.
  • 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.
  • little alfold — a plain in NW Hungary and S Slovakia.
  • malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
  • multi-faceted — having many facets, as a gem.
  • multiramified — having several branches or branchlike parts
  • mundificative — a cleansing medicine or preparation
  • mutt and jeff — a very short and a very tall person who are paired as companions, teammates, or associates.
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