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13-letter words containing s, f, e

  • disfellowship — (in some Protestant religions) the status of a member who, because of some serious infraction of church policy, has been denied the church's sacraments and any post of responsibility and is officially shunned by other members.
  • disfigurement — an act or instance of disfiguring.
  • disfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of disfranchise.
  • disfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disfranchise.
  • disgracefully — In a disgraceful manner.
  • disinfectants — Plural form of disinfectant.
  • disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
  • distastefully — In a distasteful manner.
  • distress flag — any flag flown by a vessel to show that it is in distress, as an ensign flown at half-mast or upside down.
  • distressfully — In a distressful way; showing distress.
  • diversifiable — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
  • dome fastener — a fastening device consisting of one part with a projecting knob that snaps into a hole on another like part, used esp in closures in clothing
  • domestic fowl — a chicken.
  • doppler shift — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
  • draft version — a preliminary version
  • draftspersons — Plural form of draftsperson.
  • dress uniform — U.S. Air Force. a uniform consisting of the coat and trousers of the service uniform, with a white shirt and black bow tie, worn for formal occasions.
  • duff's device — The most dramatic use yet seen of fall through in C, invented by Tom Duff when he was at Lucasfilm. Trying to bum all the instructions he could out of an inner loop that copied data serially onto an output port, he decided to unroll it. He then realised that the unrolled version could be implemented by *interlacing* the structures of a switch and a loop: register n = (count + 7) / 8; /* count > 0 assumed */ switch (count % 8) { case 0: do { *to = *from++; case 7: *to = *from++; case 6: *to = *from++; case 5: *to = *from++; case 4: *to = *from++; case 3: *to = *from++; case 2: *to = *from++; case 1: *to = *from++; } while (--n > 0); } Shocking though it appears to all who encounter it for the first time, the device is actually perfectly valid, legal C. C's default fall through in case statements has long been its most controversial single feature; Duff observed that "This code forms some sort of argument in that debate, but I'm not sure whether it's for or against."
  • dumfriesshire — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
  • dwarf ginseng — a plant, Panax trifolius, of eastern North America, having globe-shaped clusters of small, white flowers and yellow fruit.
  • east flanders — a province in W Belgium. 1150 sq. mi. (2980 sq. km). Capital: Ghent.
  • east hartford — a town in central Connecticut.
  • edison effect — the phenomenon of the flow of electric current when an electrode sealed inside the bulb of an incandescent lamp is connected to the positive terminal of the lamp.
  • effectiveness — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
  • effectivities — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
  • effectualness — The state or condition of being effectual.
  • effervescence — to give off bubbles of gas, as fermenting liquors.
  • effervescency — (archaic) effervescence.
  • efficaciously — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
  • efficientness — The quality of being efficient; efficiency.
  • efflorescence — the state or a period of flowering.
  • effortfulness — (psychology) subjective experience of exertion or effort involved in performing an activity.
  • elephant fish — a large marine fish, Callorhinchus milii, of southwest Pacific waters, having a snout resembling an elephant's trunk
  • enfranchising — Present participle of enfranchise.
  • enjoy oneself — to have a good time
  • epping forest — a forest in E England, northeast of London: formerly a royal hunting ground
  • ex post facto — having retrospective effect
  • express rifle — a high-velocity hunting rifle for big game shooting
  • facetiousness — (uncountable) The state of being facetious.
  • facial tissue — a soft, disposable paper tissue especially for cleansing the face or for use as a handkerchief.
  • factory-fresh — coming directly from the factory; brand new
  • facts of life — any aspect of human existence that must be acknowledged or regarded as unalterable: Old age is a fact of life.
  • fairy-slipper — Calypso (def 2).
  • faithlessness — The quality of being faithless.
  • fallibilities — (of persons) liable to err, especially in being deceived or mistaken.
  • false bulrush — a tall reedlike marsh plant, Typha latifolia, with straplike leaves and flowers in long brown sausage-shaped spikes: family Typhaceae
  • false colours — a flag to which one is not entitled, flown esp in order to deceive
  • false diamond — any of a number of semiprecious stones that resemble diamond, such as zircon and white topaz
  • false economy — an attempt to save money which actually leads to greater expense
  • false horizon — a line or plane that simulates the horizon, used in altitude-measuring devices or the like.
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