13-letter words containing d, i, s, f
- 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.
- microsoft dos — Microsoft Disk Operating System
- 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.
- modifications — Plural form of modification.
- 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 soundings — in waters more than 100 fathoms in depth
- 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.
- pound-foolish — not handling large sums of money wisely
- presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
- quadrifarious — having four parts
- 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.
- sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
- scabbard fish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
- 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.
- scottish fold — a breed of medium-sized short-haired cat with folded ears
- second fiddle — a secondary role: to play second fiddle to another person.
- self-adhesive — having a side or surface coated with an adhesive substance to permit sticking without glue, paste, or the like: a self-adhesive label; self-adhesive ceramic tiles.
- self-admitted — admitting to a specific charge or accusation; self-confessed: a self-admitted spy.
- self-anointed — to rub or sprinkle on; apply an unguent, ointment, or oily liquid to.
- self-deceived — holding an erroneous opinion of oneself, one's own effort, or the like.
- self-defining — decisive; critically important: Taking a course in architecture was a defining turn in her life.
- self-deifying — to make a god of; exalt to the rank of a deity; personify as a deity: to deify a beloved king.
- self-delusion — the act or fact of deluding oneself.
- self-devotion — intense devotion of oneself to an activity or to a field or profession, as art or science.
- self-directed — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
- self-distrust — lack of confidence in oneself, in one's abilities, etc.
- self-donation — an act or instance of presenting something as a gift, grant, or contribution.