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13-letter words containing d, i, s, f, e

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • goldie's fern — a wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana, of northeastern North America, having large, golden-green, leathery fronds with blades that tilt backward.
  • half-digested — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
  • half-finished — ended or completed.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
  • ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
  • 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.
  • kiss of death — a fatal or destructive relationship or action: The support of the outlawed group was the kiss of death to the candidate.
  • 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.
  • misclassified — to arrange or organize by classes; order according to class.
  • 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.
  • narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
  • new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
  • non-defensive — serving to defend; protective: defensive armament.
  • nonclassified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
  • nondiffusible — not diffusible
  • nonesterified — relating to a fatty acid that is not esterified with glycerol to make glyceride
  • nurse-midwife — a nurse skilled in assisting women in the prenatal period and in childbirth, especially at home or in another nonhospital setting.
  • odoriferously — In an odoriferous manner.
  • off-side rule — A lexical convention due to Landin, allowing the scope of declarations in a program to be expressed by indentation. Any non-whitespace token to the left of the first such token on the previous line is taken to be the start of a new declaration. Used in, for example, Miranda and Haskell.
  • officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
  • old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
  • paradise fish — any small freshwater fish of the genus Macropodus, of southeastern Asia, often kept in aquariums.
  • piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
  • post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
  • presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
  • qualifiedness — The property of being qualified (restricted or limited by conditions).
  • quasi-federal — pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in federal government; federal system.
  • refried beans — fried mashed beans
  • safety device — A safety device is a piece of equipment such as a fire extinguisher, safety belt, or burglar alarm that reduces loss or damage from a fire, accident, or break-in.
  • safety island — an area provided for the safety of pedestrians from vehicular traffic, as between lanes on a busy street or highway.
  • san ildefonso — a town in central Spain, near Segovia: termed the “Spanish Versailles” for its 18th-century palace (La Granja) treaty 1800.
  • scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
  • school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
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