13-letter words containing d, e, i, f, r
- 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 sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
- fieldstripped — Simple past tense and past participle of fieldstrip.
- figure-ground — a property of perception in which there is a tendency to see parts of a visual field as solid, well-defined objects standing out against a less distinct background.
- figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
- 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.
- 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.
- fingerprinted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerprint.
- finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
- 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 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.
- fitted carpet — wall-to-wall carpeting
- fleet admiral — the highest ranking naval officer, ranking next above admiral.
- flight leader — a pilot who commands a flight of military airplanes.
- 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.
- fluorohydride — (inorganic chemistry) An compound formed by the addition of the elements of hydrogen fluoride.
- flying bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
- 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
- food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
- foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
- 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.
- for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- forbiddenness — a past participle of forbid.
- foregrounding — Present participle of foreground.
- foreign-owned — owned by an individual who is resident in a different country or by a company whose headquarters are in a different country
- forementioned — Mentioned earlier or above; already cited.
- foreordaining — Present participle of foreordain.
- foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
- forge welding — the welding of pieces of hot metal with pressure or blows.
- fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
- frame of mind — mental state
- 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)
- frederick iii — 1415–93, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1452–93; as Frederick IV, king of Germany 1440–93.
- frederiksberg — a city in E Denmark: a part of Copenhagen.
- frederiksburg — borough on Zealand island, Denmark: suburb of Copenhagen: pop. 88,000
- free delivery — the delivery of mail directly to the recipient's address without charge to the recipient: Before free delivery people had to pick up their mail at the post office or pay a letter carrier to deliver it.
- free-spending — spending or tending to spend freely: If you don't mend your free-spending ways, you'll go bankrupt.
- free-spirited — characterized by independence and unconventionality
- 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 rider — (especially in the 1960s) a bus trip made to parts of the southern U.S. by persons engaging in efforts to integrate racially segregated public facilities.
- freeze-drying — a process for drying heat-sensitive substances, as foods, blood plasma, antibiotics, and the like, by freezing the substance and then subliming the ice or other frozen solvent in a high vacuum.
- freight depot — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport