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

  • goldie's fern — a wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana, of northeastern North America, having large, golden-green, leathery fronds with blades that tilt backward.
  • hold the fort — a strong or fortified place occupied by troops and usually surrounded by walls, ditches, and other defensive works; a fortress; fortification.
  • hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • life-or-death — life-and-death.
  • loose forward — one of a number of forwards who play at the back or sides of the scrum and who are not bound wholly into it
  • milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
  • moll flanders — (The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders) a novel (1722) by Daniel Defoe.
  • nondeferrable — Not deferrable.
  • nonfraudulent — Not fraudulent.
  • nonrefundable — an amount refunded.
  • odoriferously — In an odoriferous manner.
  • 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.
  • office-holder — An office-holder is a person who has an important official position in an organization or government.
  • officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
  • old favourite — If you refer to something as an old favourite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
  • ordered field — Mathematics. a field containing a subset of elements closed under addition and multiplication and having the property that every element in the field is either zero, in the subset, or has its additive inverse in the subset.
  • overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
  • overqualified — having more education, training, or experience than is required for a job or position.
  • preformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • quadrifoliate — (botany) Having four leaves or leaflets.
  • regardless of — in spite of
  • saddle oxford — saddle shoe.
  • 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.
  • self-absorbed — preoccupied with one's thoughts, interests, etc.
  • self-coloured — of one color.
  • self-enamored — to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with): to be enamored of a certain lady; a brilliant woman with whom he became enamored.
  • self-governed — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
  • self-observed — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
  • self-ordained — to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
  • self-oriented — the Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
  • 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.
  • slatted floor — a floor made with slats of wood so that water can drain away
  • soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
  • spider flower — cleome
  • splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
  • sugar of lead — lead acetate.
  • tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
  • threefoldness — the state or condition of being threefold
  • unrefined oil — oil that hasn't been refined or processed
  • waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
  • well-favoured — of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.
  • well-informed — having extensive knowledge, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects.
  • wonderfulness — excellent; great; marvelous: We all had a wonderful weekend.
  • words fail me — I am too happy, sad, amazed, etc, to express my thoughts
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