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13-letter words containing d, o, f, e

  • festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
  • feudalization — to make feudal; bring under the feudal system.
  • fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
  • fictionalized — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
  • fiddle around — waste time doing sth trivial
  • fiddle-footed — restlessly wandering.
  • field of fire — the area covered by a weapon or group of weapons firing from a given position.
  • field of view — field (def 13).
  • field officer — an officer holding a field grade.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • filipendulous — Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
  • fille de joie — a prostitute.
  • film recorder — a photographic device for producing a sound strip on a motion-picture film.
  • final edition — the last version of a particular issue of a daily newspaper
  • 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.
  • flat-bottomed — (of boats) having a flat bottom.
  • flatbed lorry — a lorry with a flat platform for its body
  • flesh-colored — Something that is flesh-colored is yellowish pink in color.
  • floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
  • flodden field — a hill in Northumberland where invading Scots were defeated by the English in 1513 and James IV of Scotland was killed
  • flog to death — to persuade a person so persistently of the value of (an idea or venture) that he or she loses interest in it
  • flower garden — plot for flowers
  • fluorohydride — (inorganic chemistry) An compound formed by the addition of the elements of hydrogen fluoride.
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • folded dipole — a type of aerial, widely used with television and VHF radio receivers, consisting of two parallel dipoles connected together at their outer ends and fed at the centre of one of them. The length is usually half the operating wavelength
  • folding money — paper money.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • folk medicine — health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, especially food substances.
  • food additive — additive (def 4).
  • 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
  • fool's errand — a completely absurd, pointless, or useless errand.
  • foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
  • foolheartedly — Foolishly. In a foolhardy manner. Without thinking about the consequences.
  • 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.
  • for the world — If you say that you would not do something for the world, you are emphasizing that you definitely would not do it.
  • forbiddenness — a past participle of forbid.
  • forced labour — labour done because of force; compulsory labour
  • 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
  • foreknowledge — knowledge of something before it exists or happens; prescience: Did you have any foreknowledge of the scheme?
  • forementioned — Mentioned earlier or above; already cited.
  • foreordaining — Present participle of foreordain.
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • foreshortened — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten.
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