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13-letter words containing f, e, d, i

  • disafforested — Simple past tense and past participle of disafforest.
  • disaster fund — a fund set up to relieve people or countries afflicted by a disaster
  • discontentful — exhibiting a lack of contentment
  • disfellowship — (in some Protestant religions) the status of a member who, because of some serious infraction of church policy, has been denied the church's sacraments and any post of responsibility and is officially shunned by other members.
  • disfigurement — an act or instance of disfiguring.
  • disfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of disfranchise.
  • disfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfranchise.
  • disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
  • disinfectants — Plural form of disinfectant.
  • disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
  • distastefully — In a distasteful manner.
  • distress flag — any flag flown by a vessel to show that it is in distress, as an ensign flown at half-mast or upside down.
  • distressfully — In a distressful way; showing distress.
  • diversifiable — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
  • divine office — office (def 12c).
  • diving reflex — a reflex of humans, other mammals, reptiles, and birds, triggered by immersion in cold water, that slows the heart rate and diverts blood flow to the brain, heart, and lungs: serves to conserve oxygen until breathing resumes and to delay potential brain damage.
  • domestic fowl — a chicken.
  • domino effect — the cumulative effect that results when one event precipitates a series of like events.
  • doppler shift — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
  • double-figure — double-digit.
  • draft version — a preliminary version
  • drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
  • drawing frame — a machine used to attenuate and straighten fibers by having them pass, in sliver form, through a series of double rollers, each pair of which revolves at a slightly greater speed than the preceding pair and reduces the number of strands originally fed into the machine to one extended fibrous strand doubled or redoubled in length.
  • dress uniform — U.S. Air Force. a uniform consisting of the coat and trousers of the service uniform, with a white shirt and black bow tie, worn for formal occasions.
  • driving force — impetus
  • duff's device — The most dramatic use yet seen of fall through in C, invented by Tom Duff when he was at Lucasfilm. Trying to bum all the instructions he could out of an inner loop that copied data serially onto an output port, he decided to unroll it. He then realised that the unrolled version could be implemented by *interlacing* the structures of a switch and a loop: register n = (count + 7) / 8; /* count > 0 assumed */ switch (count % 8) { case 0: do { *to = *from++; case 7: *to = *from++; case 6: *to = *from++; case 5: *to = *from++; case 4: *to = *from++; case 3: *to = *from++; case 2: *to = *from++; case 1: *to = *from++; } while (--n > 0); } Shocking though it appears to all who encounter it for the first time, the device is actually perfectly valid, legal C. C's default fall through in case statements has long been its most controversial single feature; Duff observed that "This code forms some sort of argument in that debate, but I'm not sure whether it's for or against."
  • dumfriesshire — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
  • dwarf ginseng — a plant, Panax trifolius, of eastern North America, having globe-shaped clusters of small, white flowers and yellow fruit.
  • edison effect — the phenomenon of the flow of electric current when an electrode sealed inside the bulb of an incandescent lamp is connected to the positive terminal of the lamp.
  • eff and blind — to use obscene language
  • end of medium — (character)   (EM) ASCII character 25.
  • enfield rifle — a breech-loading bolt-action magazine rifle, usually .303 calibre, used by the British army until World War II and by other countries
  • equidifferent — equilateral; having differences that are equal
  • face validity — the extent to which a psychological test appears to measure what it is intended to measure
  • factionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of factionalize.
  • faint-hearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
  • fairly-traded — bought from the producer at a guaranteed price
  • false diamond — any of a number of semiprecious stones that resemble diamond, such as zircon and white topaz
  • family credit — (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
  • family friend — intimate acquaintance of one's family
  • family-minded — devoted to one's family
  • faroe islands — islands in Atlantic Ocean
  • farther india — a peninsula in SE Asia, between India and China: consists of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Malaysia
  • fashion model — sb employed to show off designer clothes
  • fast dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another, merging the two scenes imperceptibly
  • feeble-minded — lacking the normal mental powers.
  • feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
  • fellowshipped — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
  • 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.
  • ferdinand iii — Ferdinand II (def 1).
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