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

  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
  • fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
  • fraser island — an island off the south-east coast of Queensland and the largest sand island in the world; contains rainforests, heathlands, and freshwater lakes; a national park (since 1976) and a World Heritage site (since 1992). Area: 1840 sq km (710 sq miles). Pop: 194 (2011)
  • free-spending — spending or tending to spend freely: If you don't mend your free-spending ways, you'll go bankrupt.
  • 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.
  • freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
  • friendsgiving — a gathering of friends to celebrate Thanksgiving with a feast, falling near or on Thanksgiving Day, in contrast to the traditional celebrations that typically involve family.
  • goldie's fern — a wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana, of northeastern North America, having large, golden-green, leathery fronds with blades that tilt backward.
  • half-finished — ended or completed.
  • handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
  • in despite of — in spite of
  • index futures — a form of financial futures based on projected movement of a share price index, such as the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Share Index
  • indifferences — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
  • infomediaries — Plural form of infomediary.
  • infrared star — a star radiating strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  • landfill site — also landfill
  • lines of code — (programming, unit)   (LOC) A common measure of the size or progress of a programming project. For example, one can describe a completed project as consisting of 100,000 LOC; or one can characterise a week's progress as 5000 LOC. Using LOC as a metric of progress encourages programmers to reinvent the wheel or split their code into lots of short lines.
  • misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
  • misidentified — Simple past tense and past participle of misidentify.
  • misidentifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misidentify.
  • narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
  • new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
  • non-defensive — serving to defend; protective: defensive armament.
  • nonclassified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
  • nondiffusible — not diffusible
  • nonesterified — relating to a fatty acid that is not esterified with glycerol to make glyceride
  • nurse-midwife — a nurse skilled in assisting women in the prenatal period and in childbirth, especially at home or in another nonhospital setting.
  • old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
  • 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.
  • presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
  • qualifiedness — The property of being qualified (restricted or limited by conditions).
  • refried beans — fried mashed beans
  • safety island — an area provided for the safety of pedestrians from vehicular traffic, as between lanes on a busy street or highway.
  • san ildefonso — a town in central Spain, near Segovia: termed the “Spanish Versailles” for its 18th-century palace (La Granja) treaty 1800.
  • 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
  • school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
  • second fiddle — a secondary role: to play second fiddle to another person.
  • self-anointed — to rub or sprinkle on; apply an unguent, ointment, or oily liquid to.
  • self-defining — decisive; critically important: Taking a course in architecture was a defining turn in her life.
  • self-deifying — to make a god of; exalt to the rank of a deity; personify as a deity: to deify a beloved king.
  • self-delusion — the act or fact of deluding oneself.
  • self-devotion — intense devotion of oneself to an activity or to a field or profession, as art or science.
  • self-donation — an act or instance of presenting something as a gift, grant, or contribution.
  • self-doubting — lacking in confidence
  • self-identify — identify (defs 7, 8): to self-identify as gay; to self-identify with others in the same situation.
  • self-identity — the identity or consciousness of identity of a thing with itself.
  • self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
  • self-involved — self-centered; preoccupied with oneself
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