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

  • full-flavored — Full-flavored food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
  • full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
  • gelandelaufer — a participant in cross-country skiing.
  • gödel's proof — a proof that in a formal axiomatic system such as logic or mathematics it is impossible to prove consistency without using methods from outside the system, demonstrated by Kurt Gödel (1906–78)
  • goldie's fern — a wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana, of northeastern North America, having large, golden-green, leathery fronds with blades that tilt backward.
  • grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
  • half-deserted — (of a place) not having many inhabitants, visitors, etc
  • half-silvered — (of a mirror) having an incomplete reflective coating, so that half the incident light is reflected and half transmitted: used in optical instruments and two-way mirrors
  • half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
  • halfheartedly — Without enthusiasm nor interest.
  • hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • hefner candle — a German unit of luminous intensity, equal to 0.92 of a candela.
  • 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.
  • hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
  • ile de france — a former province in N France, including Paris and the region around it.
  • Île-de-france — a region of N France, in the Paris Basin: part of the duchy of France in the 10th century
  • indifferently — without interest or concern; not caring; apathetic: his indifferent attitude toward the suffering of others.
  • 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.
  • lighter fluid — a combustible fluid used in cigarette, cigar, and pipe lighters.
  • 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
  • madder family — the large plant family Rubiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having simple, opposite, or whorled leaves, usually four- or five-lobed flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or nut, and including the gardenia, madder, partridgeberry, and shrubs and trees that are the source of coffee, ipecac, and quinine.
  • middle finger — the finger between the forefinger and the third finger.
  • middle french — the French language of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. Abbreviation: MF.
  • midriff bulge — a roll of fat around your midriff
  • milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
  • moll flanders — (The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders) a novel (1722) by Daniel Defoe.
  • multiramified — having several branches or branchlike parts
  • new fairfield — a town in SW Connecticut.
  • 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.
  • preferred lie — a nearby position for a ball preferable to that where it actually landed and to which repositioning is sometimes allowed without loss of a stroke or strokes to the player.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • rank and file — the members of a group or organization apart from its leaders or officers.
  • refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
  • regardless of — in spite of
  • rifle grenade — a grenade designed to be fired from a grenade launcher attached to the muzzle of a rifle or carbine.
  • right fielder — the player whose position is right field.
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