13-letter words containing m, e, d
- excess demand — a situation in which the market demand for a commodity is greater than its market supply, thus causing its market price to rise
- false diamond — any of a number of semiprecious stones that resemble diamond, such as zircon and white topaz
- family credit — (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
- family friend — intimate acquaintance of one's family
- family-minded — devoted to one's family
- fashion model — sb employed to show off designer clothes
- feeble-minded — lacking the normal mental powers.
- feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
- feeder stream — a tributary that feeds into a larger river, canal, etc
- 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
- female thread — a helical groove in a cylindrical hole formed by a tap or lathe tool
- fence-mending — the practice of reestablishing or strengthening personal, business, or political contacts and relationships by conciliation or negotiation, as after a dispute, disagreement, or period of inactivity.
- ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
- feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
- fickle-minded — (of a person) prone to casual change; inconstant.
- field marshal — an officer of the highest military rank in the British and certain other armies, and of the second highest rank in the French army.
- film recorder — a photographic device for producing a sound strip on a motion-picture film.
- five-and-dime — a shop that sells a wide variety of things at a cheap price
- flat-bottomed — (of boats) having a flat bottom.
- fleet admiral — the highest ranking naval officer, ranking next above admiral.
- folding money — paper money.
- folk medicine — health practices arising from superstition, cultural traditions, or empirical use of native remedies, especially food substances.
- forementioned — Mentioned earlier or above; already cited.
- foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
- frame of mind — mental state
- france modern — an escutcheon blazoned as follows: Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or.
- freedom march — an organized march protesting a government's restriction of or lack of support for civil rights, especially such a march in support of racial integration in the U.S. in the 1960s.
- freedom rider — (especially in the 1960s) a bus trip made to parts of the southern U.S. by persons engaging in efforts to integrate racially segregated public facilities.
- 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
- from the wood — (of a beverage) from a wooden container rather than a metal or glass one
- froude number — a dimensionless number used in hydrodynamics for model simulation of actual conditions
- full-bottomed — (of a wig) long at the back
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- fun and games — frivolously diverting activity.
- fundamentally — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- garden balsam — a fleshy annual garden impatiens (Impatiens balsamina) with roselike white, lavender, yellow, pink, or red blossoms borne along the main stem in leaf axils
- gender mender — (hardware) (Or "gender bender", "gender blender", "sex changer", and even "homosexual adaptor") A cable connector shell with either two male or two female connectors on it, used to correct the mismatches that result when some loser didn't understand the EIA-232C specification and the distinction between DTE and DCE. Used especially for EIA-232C parts in either the original D-25 or the IBM PC's D-9 connector. There appears to be some confusion as to whether a "male homosexual adaptor" has pins on both sides (is doubly male) or sockets on both sides (connects two males).
- gentlemanhood — the nature or position of a gentleman
- geodesic dome — a light, domelike structure developed by R. Buckminster Fuller to combine the properties of the tetrahedron and the sphere and consisting essentially of a grid of compression or tension members lying upon or parallel to great circles running in three directions in any given area, the typical form being the projection upon a sphere of an icosahedron, the triangular faces of which are filled with a symmetrical triangular, hexagonal, or quadrangular grid.
- germinal disk — blastodisk.
- gerrymandered — Simple past tense and past participle of gerrymander.
- gerrymanderer — a person who gerrymanders
- glamour model — a woman who models topless or nude for photographs
- glibenclamide — (medicine) An oral anti-diabetes medication.
- gliding lemur — flying lemur.
- golden number — a number between 1 and 19, used to indicate the position of any year in the Metonic cycle, calculated as the remainder when 1 is added to the given year and the sum is divided by 19. If the remainder is zero the number is 19
- golden remedy — a very successful way of dealing with a problem
- good-humoured — having or showing a pleasant, amiable mood: a good-humored man; a good-humored remark.
- good-tempered — good-natured; amiable.