13-letter words containing g, a, d, f
- folding chair — a chair that can be collapsed flat for easy storage or transport.
- fondant icing — icing made from fondant
- foot-dragging — reluctance or failure to proceed or act promptly.
- foreordaining — Present participle of foreordain.
- foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
- foxtail wedge — a wedge in the split end of a tenon, bolt, or the like, for spreading and securing it when driven into a blind mortise or hole.
- 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.
- fridge magnet — a small flat decorative object with a magnet on its back which is used to attach it to the front door of a fridge or other domestic appliance
- front-loading — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
- frontage road — a local road that runs parallel to an expressway, providing access to roadside stores and businesses; a service road.
- frosted glass — etched glass with a translucent surface
- fun and games — frivolously diverting activity.
- gelandelaufer — a participant in cross-country skiing.
- get a load of — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- glacial drift — material, as gravel, sand, or clay, transported and deposited by a glacier or by glacial meltwater.
- grandfathered — Simple past tense and past participle of grandfather.
- grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
- gulf of sidra — a wide inlet of the Mediterranean on the N coast of Libya
- half-digested — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
- 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.
- hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- in good faith — accordance with standards of honesty, trust, sincerity, etc. (usually preceded by in): If you act in good faith, he'll have no reason to question your motives.
- indefatigable — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
- indefatigably — In an extremely persistent and untiring manner; in an indefatigable manner.
- infrigidation — (obsolete) The act of chilling or making cold; congelation.
- landing craft — any of various flat-bottomed vessels designed to move troops and equipment close to shore.
- landing field — an area of land large and smooth enough for the landing and takeoff of aircraft.
- landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
- managed funds — funds which are managed by a mutual fund manager on behalf of investors
- match-funding — the stipulation set by a grant-providing body that the recipients of a grant raise a certain percentage of the money they require, generally a sum more or less equal to that of the sum of money being granted
- mixed farming — agriculture: raising both crops and livestock
- out of danger — no longer at risk
- playing field — an expanse of level ground, as in a park or stadium, where athletic events are held.
- radiation fog — fog produced by the nocturnal cooling of the surface boundary layer to a temperature at which its content of water vapor condenses.
- re-forwarding — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- regardless of — in spite of
- rifle grenade — a grenade designed to be fired from a grenade launcher attached to the muzzle of a rifle or carbine.
- self-standing — An object or structure that is self-standing is not supported by other objects or structures.
- sugar of lead — lead acetate.
- the-godfather — a novel (1969) by Mario Puzo.
- tight forward — one of a number of forwards who are bound wholly into the scrum
- trade figures — a record of how much a country has paid for goods which it has bought from other countries, compared with how much it has been paid for goods which it has sold to other countries
- trading floor — stock exchange: room where trading is done
- twelfth grade — (in the US) the final year of secondary school after which students usually graduate at age 17 or 18
- uncamouflaged — the act, means, or result of obscuring things to deceive an enemy, as by painting or screening objects so that they are lost to view in the background, or by making up objects that from a distance have the appearance of fortifications, guns, roads, etc.: Was camouflage used extensively on fighter aircraft during World War I?
- understaffing — the condition of being understaffed or of lacking a number of employees
- waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
- wedding feast — a meal served to celebrate a wedding
- winding frame — a machine on which yarn or thread is wound.