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13-letter words containing d, e, u

  • fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
  • 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.
  • filipendulous — Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
  • fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour)   A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
  • flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
  • 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.
  • fluidized bed — a bed of fluidized solids used as a heat exchanger or mass transfer medium
  • fluorohydride — (inorganic chemistry) An compound formed by the addition of the elements of hydrogen fluoride.
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • foldoc source — The source text of FOLDOC is a single plain text file. FOLDOC is also available on paper from your local printer but, at 700,000+ words, that would be about 2000 pages.
  • 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.
  • food supplies — food obtained for a household or for a country, an expedition, etc
  • forced labour — labour done because of force; compulsory labour
  • foregrounding — Present participle of foreground.
  • forked tongue — lying or deceitful talk
  • fort duquesne — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1610–88, French naval commander.
  • foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
  • fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
  • fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
  • frederiksburg — borough on Zealand island, Denmark: suburb of Copenhagen: pop. 88,000
  • 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.
  • froude number — a dimensionless number used in hydrodynamics for model simulation of actual conditions
  • fuddle-duddle — to depart; be off.
  • fuel-injected — (of an engine) having fuel injection.
  • full-bottomed — (of a wig) long at the back
  • full-flavored — Full-flavored food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
  • full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
  • fully fledged — Fully fledged means complete or fully developed.
  • fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
  • fun and games — frivolously diverting activity.
  • fundamentally — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • garden suburb — a suburb of a large established town or city, planned along the lines of a garden city
  • gelandelaufer — a participant in cross-country skiing.
  • gelandesprung — a jump, usually over an obstacle, in which one plants both poles in the snow in advance of the skis, bends close to the ground, and propels oneself chiefly by the use of the poles.
  • general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
  • get around to — When you get around to doing something that you have delayed doing or have been too busy to do, you finally do it.
  • get-up-and-go — energy, drive, and enthusiasm.
  • gheorghiu-dej — Gheorghe [gyawr-ge] /ˈgyɔr gɛ/ (Show IPA), 1901–65, Romanian statesman: premier 1952–55; president of the state council 1961–65.
  • glamour model — a woman who models topless or nude for photographs
  • gliding lemur — flying lemur.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
  • godwin-austen — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
  • golden number — a number between 1 and 19, used to indicate the position of any year in the Metonic cycle, calculated as the remainder when 1 is added to the given year and the sum is divided by 19. If the remainder is zero the number is 19
  • golfe du lion — French name of the Gulf of Lions.
  • good question — pertinent or insightful enquiry
  • good-humoured — having or showing a pleasant, amiable mood: a good-humored man; a good-humored remark.
  • goodhumoredly — In a good-humored manner.
  • goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
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