13-letter words containing d, e, f, n, s
- fashion model — sb employed to show off designer clothes
- fatheadedness — The quality of being fatheaded.
- festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
- fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
- field spaniel — one of a British breed of spaniels having a flat or slightly waved, usually black coat, used for hunting and retrieving game.
- filipendulous — Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
- fin de siecle — the end of the 19th century.
- fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour) A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
- finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
- first edition — the whole number of copies of a literary work printed first, from the same type, and issued together.
- first reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.
- folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
- fool's errand — a completely absurd, pointless, or useless errand.
- foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
- forbiddenness — a past participle of forbid.
- foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- foreshortened — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten.
- fort donelson — Fort Donelson.
- fort duquesne — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1610–88, French naval commander.
- fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
- fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
- 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)
- free and easy — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- free-and-easy — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- free-spending — spending or tending to spend freely: If you don't mend your free-spending ways, you'll go bankrupt.
- 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.
- 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.
- friendsgiving — a gathering of friends to celebrate Thanksgiving with a feast, falling near or on Thanksgiving Day, in contrast to the traditional celebrations that typically involve family.
- fun and games — frivolously diverting activity.
- goldie's fern — a wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana, of northeastern North America, having large, golden-green, leathery fronds with blades that tilt backward.
- half-finished — ended or completed.
- handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
- hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- in despite of — in spite of
- index futures — a form of financial futures based on projected movement of a share price index, such as the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Share Index
- indifferences — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
- infomediaries — Plural form of infomediary.
- infrared star — a star radiating strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- jefferson day — April 13, Thomas Jefferson's birthday, a legal holiday in Alabama, sometimes celebrated by the Democratic Party by the holding of fund-raising dinners.
- landfill site — also landfill
- lines of code — (programming, unit) (LOC) A common measure of the size or progress of a programming project. For example, one can describe a completed project as consisting of 100,000 LOC; or one can characterise a week's progress as 5000 LOC. Using LOC as a metric of progress encourages programmers to reinvent the wheel or split their code into lots of short lines.
- managed funds — funds which are managed by a mutual fund manager on behalf of investors
- mendes-france — Pierre [pyer] /pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1907–1982, French statesman and economist: premier 1954–55.
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- misidentified — Simple past tense and past participle of misidentify.
- misidentifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misidentify.
- moll flanders — (The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders) a novel (1722) by Daniel Defoe.
- narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
- new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.