13-letter words containing f, a, i, r, t, d
- fingerbreadth — the breadth of a finger: approximately 3/4 inch (2 cm).
- fingerpainted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerpaint.
- fireside chat — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- first reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.
- first-aid kit — emergency medical set
- fitted carpet — wall-to-wall carpeting
- fleet admiral — the highest ranking naval officer, ranking next above admiral.
- flight leader — a pilot who commands a flight of military airplanes.
- floor trading — trading by personal contact on the floor of a market or exchange
- fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
- foot-dragging — reluctance or failure to proceed or act promptly.
- formidability — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
- fortran-linda — Scientific Computer Assocs <[email protected]>.
- foundationary — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- free-standing — A free-standing piece of furniture or other object is not fixed to anything, or stands on its own away from other things.
- friction head — (in a hydraulic system) the part of a head of water or of another liquid that represents the energy that the system dissipates through friction with the sides of conduits or channels and through heating from turbulent flow.
- fridge magnet — a small flat decorative object with a magnet on its back which is used to attach it to the front door of a fridge or other domestic appliance
- front-loading — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
- glacial drift — material, as gravel, sand, or clay, transported and deposited by a glacier or by glacial meltwater.
- 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.
- hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- infrared star — a star radiating strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- infrigidation — (obsolete) The act of chilling or making cold; congelation.
- landing craft — any of various flat-bottomed vessels designed to move troops and equipment close to shore.
- life-or-death — life-and-death.
- multiramified — having several branches or branchlike parts
- narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
- 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.
- 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.
- prefabricated — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
- quadrifoliate — (botany) Having four leaves or leaflets.
- radiation fog — fog produced by the nocturnal cooling of the surface boundary layer to a temperature at which its content of water vapor condenses.
- railroad flat — an apartment whose series of narrow rooms forms a more or less straight line.
- refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
- scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
- staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
- star of david — Judaism: six-pointed star
- tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
- the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
- tight forward — one of a number of forwards who are bound wholly into the scrum
- timber-framed — framed by exposed timbers
- to stand firm — If someone stands firm, they refuse to change their mind about something.
- trade deficit — A trade deficit is a situation in which a country imports goods worth more than the value of the goods that it exports.
- trade figures — a record of how much a country has paid for goods which it has bought from other countries, compared with how much it has been paid for goods which it has sold to other countries
- trading floor — stock exchange: room where trading is done
- ultrararefied — extremely rarefied
- underinflated — lacking sufficient air pressure
- understaffing — the condition of being understaffed or of lacking a number of employees