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13-letter words containing d, u, f, s

  • fortitudinous — having or showing fortitude; marked by bravery or courage.
  • fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
  • frederiksburg — borough on Zealand island, Denmark: suburb of Copenhagen: pop. 88,000
  • 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.
  • fun and games — frivolously diverting activity.
  • gulf of sidra — a wide inlet of the Mediterranean on the N coast of Libya
  • hardship fund — funding offered or applied for due to financial difficulties
  • hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
  • hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
  • 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
  • managed funds — funds which are managed by a mutual fund manager on behalf of investors
  • meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
  • misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
  • nondiffusible — not diffusible
  • 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.
  • out of bounds — Sports. being beyond or passing the limits or boundaries of a field, course, etc., marking the area within which the ball, puck, or the like is legally in play.
  • out-of-bounds — Sports. being beyond or passing the limits or boundaries of a field, course, etc., marking the area within which the ball, puck, or the like is legally in play.
  • outdo oneself — to do something better than one ever did before or thought one could do
  • 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
  • pressure-feed — a system in which the supply of material is maintained by applied pressure
  • 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.
  • refuse a card — If you refuse a card, you do not allow someone's credit card to be used to pay a bill.
  • ruffed grouse — a North American grouse, Bonasa umbellus, having a tuft of black feathers on each side of the neck.
  • ruled surface — a surface that can be generated by a straight line, as a cylinder or cone.
  • saturated fat — a type of single-bond animal or vegetable fat, as that found in butter, meat, egg yolks, and coconut or palm oil, that in humans tends to increase cholesterol levels in the blood. Compare saturated (def 3).
  • schadenfreude — satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
  • self-coloured — of one color.
  • self-delusion — the act or fact of deluding oneself.
  • self-destruct — to destroy itself or oneself: The missile is built so that a malfunction will cause it to self-destruct.
  • self-distrust — lack of confidence in oneself, in one's abilities, etc.
  • self-doubting — lacking in confidence
  • self-educated — educated by one's own efforts, especially without formal instruction.
  • self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
  • self-judgment — the act or fact of judging oneself.
  • self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • self-procured — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
  • self-produced — produced by oneself or itself.
  • self-ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
  • semifurnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
  • seminal fluid — the fluid component of semen, excluding the sperm.
  • sigmund freud — Anna, 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, born in Austria (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
  • snuff-dipping — the practice of absorbing nicotine by holding in one's mouth, between the cheek and the gum, a small amount of tobacco, either loose or enclosed in a sachet
  • soda fountain — a counter, as in a restaurant or drugstore, at which sodas, ice cream, light meals, etc., are served.
  • soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
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