13-letter words containing d, o, i, t, r
- fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
- fortitudinous — having or showing fortitude; marked by bravery or courage.
- fortran-linda — Scientific Computer Assocs <[email protected]>.
- foundationary — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- freight depot — (on a rail network) a place where freight is stored while awaiting onward transport
- friction feed — (printer) A method some printers and plotters use to move paper by rotating one or both of a pair of spring-loaded rubber-coated rollers with the paper sandwiched between them. Friction feed printers are notorious for slipping when the rollers wear out, but can take standard typing paper. For printers with a sheet feeder, friction feed is more appropriate than sprocket feed which requires the holes in the paper to engage with the sprockets of the feed mechanism.
- friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
- front-loading — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
- fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
- 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).
- garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
- 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.
- ghiordes knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the parallel ends of looped yarn alternate with two threads of warp, producing an uneven pile effect.
- giant redwood — big tree.
- gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
- gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
- goal-oriented — (of a person) focused on reaching a specific objective or accomplishing a given task; driven by purpose: goal-oriented teams of teachers.
- gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
- gonadotrophin — a gonadotropic substance.
- gonadotropins — Plural form of gonadotropin.
- gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
- grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
- granodioritic — relating to granodiorite
- ground-to-air — (of weapons) designed to be fired at aircraft from the ground
- groundnut oil — a mild-tasting oil extracted from peanuts and used in cooking
- grylloblattid — a primitive insect of the order Grylloblattidea, having a soft, unpigmented wingless body with long antennae and no eyes, living under stones in moderately high mountains of the western U.S., Japan, and the U.S.S.R.
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- hemiterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C5 skeleton.
- hermaphrodite — an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
- herod antipas — died after a.d. 39, ruler of Galilee, a.d. 4–39: ordered the execution of John the Baptist and participated in the trial of Jesus.
- heroin addict — sb dependent on heroin
- hertfordshire — a county in SE England. 631 sq. mi. (1635 sq. km).
- heterodimeric — (chemistry) produced from two similar but different monomers.
- histiophoroid — of or relating to the sailfish
- horse trading — the act or fact of conducting a shrewd exchange or engaging in a horse trade; bargaining.
- horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
- house-trained — housebroken.
- housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.
- hudson strait — a strait connecting Hudson Bay and the Atlantic. 450 miles (725 km) long; 100 miles (160 km) wide.
- hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
- hybridisation — Alternative form of hybridization.
- hybridization — to cause to produce hybrids; cross.
- hydrarthrosis — a build-up of fluid or water in the cavity of a joint, esp the knee joint
- hydroboration — (chemistry) the production or organoboranes by the addition of diborane to unsaturated organic compounds.
- hydroelectric — pertaining to the generation and distribution of electricity derived from the energy of falling water or any other hydraulic source.
- hydrogenating — Present participle of hydrogenate.
- hydrogenation — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
- hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
- hydronitrogen — a chemical compound containing only hydrogen and nitrogen.
- hydropathical — Alternative form of hydropathic.