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13-letter words containing d, i, f, r

  • function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
  • genetic drift — random changes in the frequency of alleles in a gene pool, usually of small populations.
  • get rid of sb — If you get rid of someone who is causing problems for you or who you do not like, you do something to prevent them affecting you any more, for example by making them leave.
  • glacial drift — material, as gravel, sand, or clay, transported and deposited by a glacier or by glacial meltwater.
  • goldie's fern — a wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana, of northeastern North America, having large, golden-green, leathery fronds with blades that tilt backward.
  • gulf of sidra — a wide inlet of the Mediterranean on the N coast of Libya
  • half-silvered — (of a mirror) having an incomplete reflective coating, so that half the incident light is reflected and half transmitted: used in optical instruments and two-way mirrors
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • hardship fund — funding offered or applied for due to financial difficulties
  • heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
  • herefordshire — a former county in W England, now part of Hereford and Worscester.
  • hertfordshire — a county in SE England. 631 sq. mi. (1635 sq. km).
  • hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
  • hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
  • hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
  • ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
  • ile de france — a former province in N France, including Paris and the region around it.
  • Île-de-france — a region of N France, in the Paris Basin: part of the duchy of France in the 10th century
  • in-difference — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
  • 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.
  • indifferently — without interest or concern; not caring; apathetic: his indifferent attitude toward the suffering of others.
  • infomediaries — Plural form of infomediary.
  • infrared star — a star radiating strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  • infrigidation — (obsolete) The act of chilling or making cold; congelation.
  • knife grinder — tool
  • kolding fjord — an inlet of the Little Belt at the head of which is Kolding
  • korf, richard — Richard Korf
  • landing craft — any of various flat-bottomed vessels designed to move troops and equipment close to shore.
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • life-or-death — life-and-death.
  • lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
  • madder family — the large plant family Rubiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having simple, opposite, or whorled leaves, usually four- or five-lobed flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or nut, and including the gardenia, madder, partridgeberry, and shrubs and trees that are the source of coffee, ipecac, and quinine.
  • maid of honor — an unmarried woman who is the chief attendant of a bride. Compare matron of honor.
  • mandibuliform — Having the form of a mandible; - said especially of the maxill\u00e6 of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
  • microsoft dos — Microsoft Disk Operating System
  • middle finger — the finger between the forefinger and the third finger.
  • middle french — the French language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. Abbreviation: MF.
  • midriff bulge — a roll of fat around your midriff
  • milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
  • misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
  • mixed farming — agriculture: raising both crops and livestock
  • multiramified — having several branches or branchlike parts
  • narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
  • new fairfield — a town in SW Connecticut.
  • non-fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
  • nonesterified — relating to a fatty acid that is not esterified with glycerol to make glyceride
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