13-letter words containing i, f, d
- city of david — Jerusalem. II Sam. 5:6–7.
- civil defence — Civil defence is the organization and training of the ordinary people in a country so that they can help the armed forces, medical services, or police force, for example if the country is attacked by an enemy.
- civil defense — Civil defense is the organization and training of the ordinary people in a country so that they can help the armed forces, medical services, or police force, for example if the country is attacked by an enemy.
- classified ad — Classified ads or classified advertisements are small advertisements in a newspaper or magazine. They are usually from a person or small company.
- cliff dweller — (usually initial capital letter) a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern U.S., who were ancestors of the Pueblo Indians and built shelters in caves or on the ledges of cliffs.
- cliff-dweller — a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern US who built shelters on the ledges of cliffs or in caves
- codifiability — the quality of being codifiable
- coffin dodger — an old person
- commodifiable — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
- confederacies — Plural form of confederacy.
- confederating — Present participle of confederate.
- confederation — A confederation is an organization or group consisting of smaller groups or states, especially one that exists for business or political purposes.
- confederative — of confederates or a confederation
- confidingness — The state or quality of being confiding.
- confirmedness — The quality of being confirmed.
- confoundingly — in a confounding manner
- confusticated — Simple past tense and past participle of confusticate.
- cornfield ant — a small, brown ant, Lasius alienus, that lives in cornfields and feeds on honeydew of the corn-root aphid.
- corrie-fisted — left-handed
- coulomb field — the electrostatic field around an electrically charged body or particle
- counterfeited — Simple past tense and past participle of counterfeit.
- creep-feeding — the practice of feeding young farm animals (esp piglets, calves, and lambs) in a sectioned-off part of their indoor environment, in order to prevent the mother from gaining access to the food
- crested swift — any of several birds of the family Hemiprocnidae, of southeast Asia and the East Indies, related to the true swifts but differing in having erectile crests and the habit of perching in trees.
- crowd surfing — the practice of being passed over the top of a crowd of people such as an audience at a pop concert
- culture fluid — the fluid used as a medium for growing microorganisms
- cutting fluid — a liquid or gas for cooling or lubricating a cutting tool and a piece of work at their point of contact.
- dairy factory — a factory making butter, cheese, lactose, etc from milk collected from surrounding farming areas
- dairy farming — the business of farming to produce milk and milk products
- damnification — That which causes damage or loss.
- dandification — The condition or state of a man who is overly concerned about his clothes and appearance.
- date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
- day of infamy — December 7, 1941, on which Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II: so referred to by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his speech to Congress the next day, asking for a declaration of war on Japan.
- 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
- death benefit — the benefit payable if the holder of a life insurance policy dies before the policy matures
- decaffeinated — Decaffeinated coffee has had most of the caffeine removed from it.
- 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.
- deep-freezing — the process of freezing food at a very low temperature for storage
- 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
- defectiveness — having a defect or flaw; faulty; imperfect: a defective machine.
- defendability — (uncountable) The condition of being defendable.
- defensibility — capable of being defended against assault or injury: The troops were bivouacked in a defensible position.
- defensiveness — serving to defend; protective: defensive armament.
- deferentially — showing deference; deferent; respectful.
- defibrillated — Simple past tense and past participle of defibrillate.