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13-letter words containing e, f, d

  • feeder school — a junior school whose pupils go to a specific secondary school
  • feeder stream — a tributary that feeds into a larger river, canal, etc
  • feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
  • fellowshipped — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
  • felony murder — a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
  • female condom — a type of condom used by women and inserted into the vagina
  • female thread — a helical groove in a cylindrical hole formed by a tap or lathe tool
  • fence-mending — the practice of reestablishing or strengthening personal, business, or political contacts and relationships by conciliation or negotiation, as after a dispute, disagreement, or period of inactivity.
  • fender bender — a collision between motor vehicles in which there is only minor damage.
  • fender-bender — a collision between motor vehicles in which there is only minor damage.
  • ferdinand iii — Ferdinand II (def 1).
  • ferdinand vii — 1784–1833, king of Spain 1808, 1814–33.
  • ferret badger — any of several small omnivores of the genus Melogale, of southern and eastern Asia, having a bushy tail and distinctive white or yellow markings on a black face.
  • ferrous oxide — a black powder, FeO, insoluble in water, soluble in acid.
  • ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
  • festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
  • feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
  • feudalization — to make feudal; bring under the feudal system.
  • fickle-minded — (of a person) prone to casual change; inconstant.
  • 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-de-dee — an exclamation of impatience, disbelief, or disagreement
  • fiddle-faddle — nonsense.
  • fiddle-footed — restlessly wandering.
  • fiddlesticks! — an expression of annoyance or disagreement
  • fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
  • field battery — a small unit of usually four field guns
  • field captain — a member of a team taking active part in a game who is authorized to make decisions for the team, especially in regard to planning plays, deciding whether to accept penalties called by an official against the opponents, etc.
  • field cricket — any of several jumping, orthopterous insects of the family Gryllidae, characterized by long antennae and stridulating organs on the forewings of the male, as one of the species commonly found in pastures and meadows (field cricket) or on trees and shrubs (tree cricket)
  • field glasses — Usually, field glasses. binoculars for use out of doors.
  • field kitchen — the place at which the food for a unit of soldiers in the field is prepared
  • field marshal — an officer of the highest military rank in the British and certain other armies, and of the second highest rank in the French army.
  • 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 service — military service performed in the field
  • 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 spaniel — one of a British breed of spaniels having a flat or slightly waved, usually black coat, used for hunting and retrieving game.
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • field winding — the electrically conducting circuit, usually a number of coils wound on individual poles and connected in series, that produces the magnetic field in a motor or generator.
  • field-glasses — Field-glasses are the same as binoculars.
  • fieldstripped — Simple past tense and past participle of fieldstrip.
  • fifth disease — Pathology. a mild infection, most often seen in children or young adults, caused by a small virus ((the human parvovirus B19)) and marked by a blotchy rash on the cheeks, arms, and legs.
  • 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.
  • figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
  • 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.
  • filter feeder — an aquatic animal that feeds on particles or small organisms strained out of water by circulating them through its system: includes most of the stationary feeders, as clams, oysters, barnacles, corals, sea squirts, and sponges.
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