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13-letter words containing f, l, o, d

  • faroe islands — islands in Atlantic Ocean
  • 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
  • federal court — a court of a federal government, especially one established under the Constitution of the United States.
  • feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
  • feeder school — a junior school whose pupils go to a specific secondary school
  • feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
  • fellowshipped — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
  • 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 condom — a type of condom used by women and inserted into the vagina
  • festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
  • feudalization — to make feudal; bring under the feudal system.
  • fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
  • fictionalized — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
  • fiddle around — waste time doing sth trivial
  • fiddle-footed — restlessly wandering.
  • field of fire — the area covered by a weapon or group of weapons firing from a given position.
  • field of view — field (def 13).
  • field officer — an officer holding a field grade.
  • 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.
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • filipendulous — Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
  • fille de joie — a prostitute.
  • film recorder — a photographic device for producing a sound strip on a motion-picture film.
  • final edition — the last version of a particular issue of a daily newspaper
  • firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
  • flaming sword — a cultivated bromeliad, Vriesea splendens, native to French Guiana, having long, red bracts and yellow flowers.
  • flash-forward — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
  • flat-bottomed — (of boats) having a flat bottom.
  • flatbed lorry — a lorry with a flat platform for its body
  • flesh-colored — Something that is flesh-colored is yellowish pink in color.
  • floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
  • floating dock — a submersible, floating structure used as a dry dock, having a floor that is submerged, slipped under a floating vessel, and then raised so as to raise the vessel entirely out of the water.
  • flodden field — a hill in Northumberland where invading Scots were defeated by the English in 1513 and James IV of Scotland was killed
  • flog to death — to persuade a person so persistently of the value of (an idea or venture) that he or she loses interest in it
  • flood control — the act or technique of controlling river flow with dams, dikes, artificial channels, etc., so as to minimize the occurrence of floods.
  • floodlighting — Present participle of floodlight.
  • floor trading — trading by personal contact on the floor of a market or exchange
  • flooring brad — a brad having a very small head, made in lengths from 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm).
  • flower garden — plot for flowers
  • fluorohydride — (inorganic chemistry) An compound formed by the addition of the elements of hydrogen fluoride.
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • flying doctor — a doctor listed with local authorities as willing to be flown to remote areas to give emergency medical care.
  • flying dragon — any of several arboreal lizards of the genus Draco, having an extensible membrane between the limbs along each side by means of which it makes long, gliding leaps.
  • fold function — (programming)   In functional programming, fold or "reduce" is a kind of higher-order function that takes as arguments a function, an initial "accumulator" value and a data structure (often a list). In Haskell, the two flavours of fold for lists, called foldl and foldr are defined like this: foldl :: (a -> b -> a) -> a -> [b] -> a foldl f z [] = z foldl f z (x:xs) = foldl f (f z x) xs foldr :: (a -> b -> b) -> b -> [a] -> b foldr f z [] = z foldr f z (x:xs) = f x (foldr f z xs) In both cases, if the input list is empty, the result is the value of the accumulator, z. If not, foldl takes the head of the list, x, and returns the result of recursing on the tail of the list using (f z x) as the new z. foldr returns (f x q) where q is the result of recursing on the tail. The "l" and "r" in the names refer to the associativity of the application of f. Thus if f = (+) (the binary plus operator used as a function of two arguments), we have: foldl (+) 0 [1, 2, 3] = (((0 + 1) + 2) + 3 (applying + left associatively) and foldr (+) 0 [1, 2, 3] = 0 + (1 + (2 + 3)) (applying + right associatively). For +, this makes no difference but for an non-commutative operator it would.
  • folded dipole — a type of aerial, widely used with television and VHF radio receivers, consisting of two parallel dipoles connected together at their outer ends and fed at the centre of one of them. The length is usually half the operating wavelength
  • folding chair — a chair that can be collapsed flat for easy storage or transport.
  • folding money — paper money.
  • folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
  • foldoc source — The source text of FOLDOC is a single plain text file. FOLDOC is also available on paper from your local printer but, at 700,000+ words, that would be about 2000 pages.
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