13-letter words containing f, a, d
- catch hold of — to take; seize; grasp
- caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
- chapel de fer — a medieval open helmet, often having a broad brim for deflecting blows from above.
- child welfare — social work and services aimed at insuring the welfare of children
- city of david — Jerusalem. II Sam. 5:6–7.
- classified ad — Classified ads or classified advertisements are small advertisements in a newspaper or magazine. They are usually from a person or small company.
- codifiability — the quality of being codifiable
- commodifiable — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
- compound leaf — a leaf consisting of two or more leaflets borne on the same leafstalk
- confederacies — Plural form of confederacy.
- confederating — Present participle of confederate.
- confederation — A confederation is an organization or group consisting of smaller groups or states, especially one that exists for business or political purposes.
- confederative — of confederates or a confederation
- confusticated — Simple past tense and past participle of confusticate.
- cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
- crack of dawn — the very instant that the sun rises
- crack of doom — doomsday; the end of the world; the Day of Judgment
- dairy factory — a factory making butter, cheese, lactose, etc from milk collected from surrounding farming areas
- dairy farming — the business of farming to produce milk and milk products
- damnification — That which causes damage or loss.
- dandification — The condition or state of a man who is overly concerned about his clothes and appearance.
- data transfer — (data) Copying or moving data from one place to another, typically via some kind of network (e.g. Asynchronous Transfer Mode, File Transfer Protocol) or local data connection (bus, SCSI, IDE, SATA).
- date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
- day after day — If something happens day after day, it happens every day without stopping.
- day of infamy — December 7, 1941, on which Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II: so referred to by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his speech to Congress the next day, asking for a declaration of war on Japan.
- days of grace — days permitted by custom for payment of a promissory note, bill of exchange, etc, after it falls due
- deaf-and-dumb — unable to hear or speak
- dean of guild — the titular head of the guild or merchant company in a Scots burgh, who formerly exercised jurisdiction over all building in the burgh in the Dean of Guild Court
- death benefit — the benefit payable if the holder of a life insurance policy dies before the policy matures
- death futures — life insurance policies of terminally ill people that are bought speculatively for a lump sum by a company, enabling it to collect the proceeds of the policies when the sufferers die
- decaffeinated — Decaffeinated coffee has had most of the caffeine removed from it.
- declassifying — Present participle of declassify.
- defamiliarise — Alternative spelling of defamiliarize.
- defamiliarize — to make (something well-known or well-established) seem unfamiliar, strange, disconcerting, etc., as in order to reinterpret or subvert it
- default route — (networking) A routing table entry which is used to direct packets addressed to hosts or networks not explicitly listed in the routing table.
- defeasibility — capable of being annulled or terminated.
- defendability — (uncountable) The condition of being defendable.
- defenestrated — Simple past tense and past participle of defenestrate.
- defenestrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defenestrate.
- deferentially — showing deference; deferent; respectful.
- defibrillated — Simple past tense and past participle of defibrillate.
- defibrillator — A defibrillator is a machine that starts the heart beating normally again after a heart attack, by giving it an electric shock.
- defibrination — the act or process of defibrinating
- defloration's — the act of deflowering.
- deforestation — to divest or clear of forests or trees: Poor planning deforested the area in ten years.
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
- deformational — of or relating to deformation
- defragmenting — Present participle of defragment.
- delirifacient — anything that causes or induces delirium
- demanufacture — A process of recycling that involves the dismantling and/or disassembly of an item to gain the maximum amount of recyclable materials.