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

  • 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
  • deceitfulness — given to deceiving: A deceitful person cannot keep friends for long.
  • declassifying — Present participle of declassify.
  • deconflicting — Present participle of deconflict.
  • deconfliction — The act or process of deconflicting.
  • 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
  • defeasibility — capable of being annulled or terminated.
  • defectibility — the ability to become defectible
  • defendability — (uncountable) The condition of being defendable.
  • defensibility — capable of being defended against assault or injury: The troops were bivouacked in a defensible position.
  • 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.
  • defloration's — the act of deflowering.
  • deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
  • deformational — of or relating to deformation
  • delirifacient — anything that causes or induces delirium
  • desulfuration — to desulfurize.
  • differentials — Plural form of differential.
  • difficultness — The state or quality of being difficult.
  • digital frame — a picture frame containing an LCD screen that is used to display digital photos: Download pictures to your digital frame directly from your camera's memory card.
  • disaffiliated — Simple past tense and past participle of disaffiliate.
  • 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.
  • disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • eff and blind — to use obscene language
  • efficaciously — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
  • electric fire — a device that provides heat for a room from an incandescent electric element
  • electric flux — the product of the electric displacement and the area across which it is displaced in an electric field
  • elephant fish — a large marine fish, Callorhinchus milii, of southwest Pacific waters, having a snout resembling an elephant's trunk
  • 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
  • epileptic fit — a sudden attack of epilepsy, involving loss of consciousness with or without convulsions
  • express rifle — a high-velocity hunting rifle for big game shooting
  • extrafamilial — Outside a family.
  • fabric filter — A fabric filter is a type of filter in which solids are removed from a gas by passing it though a fabric.
  • face validity — the extent to which a psychological test appears to measure what it is intended to measure
  • facial eczema — a disease of sheep and cattle, occurring in warm areas of North Island, New Zealand. It is caused by a fungus, Pithomyces chartarum, and causes impairment of liver function and reddening, itching, scab formation, and swelling of the skin, esp on the face
  • facial tissue — a soft, disposable paper tissue especially for cleansing the face or for use as a handkerchief.
  • factionalized — Simple past tense and past participle of factionalize.
  • facts of life — any aspect of human existence that must be acknowledged or regarded as unalterable: Old age is a fact of life.
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