13-letter words containing f, e, d, r
- dome fastener — a fastening device consisting of one part with a projecting knob that snaps into a hole on another like part, used esp in closures in clothing
- 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
- draftspersons — Plural form of draftsperson.
- 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
- drop-dead fee — a fee paid to an organization lending money to a company that is hoping to use it to finance a takeover bid. The fee is only paid if the bid fails and interest charges are only incurred if the money is needed
- 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.
- east flanders — a province in W Belgium. 1150 sq. mi. (2980 sq. km). Capital: Ghent.
- east hartford — a town in central Connecticut.
- electroformed — Produced, or modified by electroforming.
- 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
- f.w. de klerk — Frederik Willem, born 1936, South African political leader: president 1989–94; Nobel Peace Prize 1993.
- face-centered — (of a crystal structure) having lattice points on the faces of the unit cells.
- faint-hearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
- fairly-traded — bought from the producer at a guaranteed price
- false-hearted — having a false or treacherous heart; deceitful; perfidious.
- 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
- fanfold paper — continuous paper perforated at regular intervals, as used in a dot-matrix printer
- 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
- featherbedded — Simple past tense and past participle of featherbed.
- featherheaded — featherbrain.
- federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
- feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
- feeder school — a junior school whose pupils go to a specific secondary school
- feeder stream — a tributary that feeds into a larger river, canal, etc
- felony murder — a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
- female thread — a helical groove in a cylindrical hole formed by a tap or lathe tool
- fender bender — a collision between motor vehicles in which there is only minor damage.
- fender-bender — a collision between motor vehicles in which there is only minor damage.
- ferdinand iii — Ferdinand II (def 1).
- ferdinand vii — 1784–1833, king of Spain 1808, 1814–33.
- ferret badger — any of several small omnivores of the genus Melogale, of southern and eastern Asia, having a bushy tail and distinctive white or yellow markings on a black face.
- ferrous oxide — a black powder, FeO, insoluble in water, soluble in acid.
- ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
- fiddle around — waste time doing sth trivial
- field battery — a small unit of usually four field guns
- field cricket — any of several jumping, orthopterous insects of the family Gryllidae, characterized by long antennae and stridulating organs on the forewings of the male, as one of the species commonly found in pastures and meadows (field cricket) or on trees and shrubs (tree cricket)
- field marshal — an officer of the highest military rank in the British and certain other armies, and of the second highest rank in the French army.
- field of fire — the area covered by a weapon or group of weapons firing from a given position.
- field officer — an officer holding a field grade.
- field service — military service performed in the field
- field servoid — (jargon, abuse) /fee'ld ser'voyd/ A play on "android", a derogatory term for a representative of a field service organisation (see field circus), suggesting an unintelligent rule-driven approach to servicing computer hardware.