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

  • festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
  • 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.
  • fickle-minded — (of a person) prone to casual change; inconstant.
  • 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-de-dee — an exclamation of impatience, disbelief, or disagreement
  • fiddle-faddle — nonsense.
  • fiddle-footed — restlessly wandering.
  • fiddlesticks! — an expression of annoyance or disagreement
  • 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 cricket — any of several jumping, orthopterous insects of the family Gryllidae, characterized by long antennae and stridulating organs on the forewings of the male, as one of the species commonly found in pastures and meadows (field cricket) or on trees and shrubs (tree cricket)
  • field glasses — Usually, field glasses. binoculars for use out of doors.
  • field kitchen — the place at which the food for a unit of soldiers in the field is prepared
  • 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 of fire — the area covered by a weapon or group of weapons firing from a given position.
  • field of view — field (def 13).
  • field officer — an officer holding a field grade.
  • field service — military service performed in the field
  • field servoid — (jargon, abuse)   /fee'ld ser'voyd/ A play on "android", a derogatory term for a representative of a field service organisation (see field circus), suggesting an unintelligent rule-driven approach to servicing computer hardware.
  • 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 winding — the electrically conducting circuit, usually a number of coils wound on individual poles and connected in series, that produces the magnetic field in a motor or generator.
  • field-glasses — Field-glasses are the same as binoculars.
  • fieldstripped — Simple past tense and past participle of fieldstrip.
  • figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
  • filipendulous — Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
  • fille de joie — a prostitute.
  • film recorder — a photographic device for producing a sound strip on a motion-picture film.
  • filter feeder — an aquatic animal that feeds on particles or small organisms strained out of water by circulating them through its system: includes most of the stationary feeders, as clams, oysters, barnacles, corals, sea squirts, and sponges.
  • fin de siecle — the end of the 19th century.
  • final edition — the last version of a particular issue of a daily newspaper
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • flesh peddler — a prostitute.
  • flesh-colored — Something that is flesh-colored is yellowish pink in color.
  • flesh-peddler — an employment agent or agency, especially one that recruits executives.
  • flexible disk — a flexible removable magnetic disk that stores information and can be used to store data for use in a microprocessor
  • 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
  • flodden field — a hill in Northumberland where invading Scots were defeated by the English in 1513 and James IV of Scotland was killed
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