13-letter words containing o, d, r, i, f
- goldie's fern — a wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana, of northeastern North America, having large, golden-green, leathery fronds with blades that tilt backward.
- gulf of sidra — a wide inlet of the Mediterranean on the N coast of Libya
- heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
- herefordshire — a former county in W England, now part of Hereford and Worscester.
- hertfordshire — a county in SE England. 631 sq. mi. (1635 sq. km).
- 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.
- hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
- hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- infomediaries — Plural form of infomediary.
- infrigidation — (obsolete) The act of chilling or making cold; congelation.
- kolding fjord — an inlet of the Little Belt at the head of which is Kolding
- korf, richard — Richard Korf
- landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
- life-or-death — life-and-death.
- maid of honor — an unmarried woman who is the chief attendant of a bride. Compare matron of honor.
- mandibuliform — Having the form of a mandible; - said especially of the maxill\u00e6 of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
- microsoft dos — Microsoft Disk Operating System
- milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
- non-fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- nonesterified — relating to a fatty acid that is not esterified with glycerol to make glyceride
- odoriferously — In an odoriferous manner.
- 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.
- 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.
- over-identify — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
- overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
- overconfident — too confident.
- overqualified — having more education, training, or experience than is required for a job or position.
- porfirio diaz — (Josédela Cruz) Porfirio [haw-se th e lah kroos pawr-fee-ryaw] /hɔˈsɛ ðɛ lɑ ˈkrus pɔrˈfi ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1830–1915, president of Mexico 1877–80, 1884–1911.
- post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- predefinition — the process or action of defining in advance; an advance definition
- quadrifarious — having four parts
- quadrifoliate — (botany) Having four leaves or leaflets.
- radiation fog — fog produced by the nocturnal cooling of the surface boundary layer to a temperature at which its content of water vapor condenses.
- railroad flat — an apartment whose series of narrow rooms forms a more or less straight line.
- re-forwarding — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- rock-fill dam — a dam built mainly of rocks of various sizes fitted compactly together.
- rutherfordium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rf; atomic number: 104.
- scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
- 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.
- self-ordained — to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
- self-oriented — the Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- soundproofing — materials used to make something soundproof