13-letter words containing o, f, d, u
- fort duquesne — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1610–88, French naval commander.
- fortitudinous — having or showing fortitude; marked by bravery or courage.
- foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
- foundationary — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- foundry proof — a proof pulled for a final checking before printing plates are made.
- fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
- fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
- fouta djallon — a highland pastoral region in West Africa, in central Guinea, also in Sierra Leone and Liberia. 30,000 sq. mi. (77,700 sq. km).
- froude number — a dimensionless number used in hydrodynamics for model simulation of actual conditions
- fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
- full-bottomed — (of a wig) long at the back
- full-flavored — Full-flavored food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
- full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
- golfe du lion — French name of the Gulf of Lions.
- ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
- gulf of sidra — a wide inlet of the Mediterranean on the N coast of Libya
- hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
- hydrosulfides — Plural form of hydrosulfide.
- hydrosulfuric — (chemistry) Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
- in default of — If something happens in default of something else, it happens because that other thing does not happen or proves to be impossible.
- loft building — a building of several floors with large areas of unobstructed space, originally rented out for light industrial purposes and now frequently converted to residential occupancy.
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
- mandibuliform — Having the form of a mandible; - said especially of the maxill\u00e6 of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
- meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- mundification — the act of cleansing a wound
- neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
- non-fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- 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 soundings — in waters more than 100 fathoms in depth
- 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.
- 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.
- out of bounds — Sports. being beyond or passing the limits or boundaries of a field, course, etc., marking the area within which the ball, puck, or the like is legally in play.
- out of danger — no longer at risk
- out-of-bounds — Sports. being beyond or passing the limits or boundaries of a field, course, etc., marking the area within which the ball, puck, or the like is legally in play.
- out-performed — to surpass in excellence of performance; do better than: a new engine that outperforms the competition; a stock that outperformed all others.
- outdo oneself — to do something better than one ever did before or thought one could do
- overqualified — having more education, training, or experience than is required for a job or position.
- 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.
- pound-foolish — not handling large sums of money wisely
- 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.
- preformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- quadrifarious — having four parts
- quadrifoliate — (botany) Having four leaves or leaflets.