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

  • moll flanders — (The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders) a novel (1722) by Daniel Defoe.
  • nimble-footed — able to move the feet agilely and neatly
  • nobody's fool — person: intelligent
  • non-inflected — to modulate (the voice).
  • nonaffiliated — being in close formal or informal association; related: a letter sent to all affiliated clubs; a radio network and its affiliated local stations.
  • nonclassified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
  • nondeferrable — Not deferrable.
  • nondiffusible — not diffusible
  • nonfraudulent — Not fraudulent.
  • nonrefundable — an amount refunded.
  • odoriferously — In an odoriferous manner.
  • oeil-de-boeuf — a comparatively small round or oval window, as in a frieze.
  • off-side rule — A lexical convention due to Landin, allowing the scope of declarations in a program to be expressed by indentation. Any non-whitespace token to the left of the first such token on the previous line is taken to be the start of a new declaration. Used in, for example, Miranda and Haskell.
  • office-holder — An office-holder is a person who has an important official position in an organization or government.
  • officeholders — Plural form of officeholder.
  • old favourite — If you refer to something as an old favourite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
  • old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
  • on the fiddle — If someone is on the fiddle, they get money by doing illegal or dishonest things.
  • orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
  • ordered field — Mathematics. a field containing a subset of elements closed under addition and multiplication and having the property that every element in the field is either zero, in the subset, or has its additive inverse in the subset.
  • outdo oneself — to do something better than one ever did before or thought one could do
  • overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
  • overqualified — having more education, training, or experience than is required for a job or position.
  • pound-foolish — not handling large sums of money wisely
  • preformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • quadrifoliate — (botany) Having four leaves or leaflets.
  • railroad flat — an apartment whose series of narrow rooms forms a more or less straight line.
  • regardless of — in spite of
  • rock-fill dam — a dam built mainly of rocks of various sizes fitted compactly together.
  • saddle oxford — saddle shoe.
  • san ildefonso — a town in central Spain, near Segovia: termed the “Spanish Versailles” for its 18th-century palace (La Granja) treaty 1800.
  • sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
  • 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.
  • scottish fold — a breed of medium-sized short-haired cat with folded ears
  • second fiddle — a secondary role: to play second fiddle to another person.
  • self-absorbed — preoccupied with one's thoughts, interests, etc.
  • self-advocacy — the practice of having mentally handicapped people speak for themselves and control their own affairs, rather than having nonhandicapped people automatically assume responsibility for them
  • self-anointed — to rub or sprinkle on; apply an unguent, ointment, or oily liquid to.
  • self-coloured — of one color.
  • self-composed — being or appearing to be composed; calm.
  • 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-employed — earning one's living directly from one's own profession or business, as a freelance writer or artist, rather than as an employee earning salary or commission from another.
  • self-enamored — to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with): to be enamored of a certain lady; a brilliant woman with whom he became enamored.
  • self-governed — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
  • self-involved — self-centered; preoccupied with oneself
  • self-observed — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
  • self-obsessed — If you describe someone as self-obsessed, you are criticizing them for spending too much time thinking about themselves or their own problems.
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