13-letter words containing s, i, d, e, t
- exsanguinated — Simple past tense and past participle of exsanguinate.
- fast dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another, merging the two scenes imperceptibly
- feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
- festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
- fictionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fictionalise.
- fiddlesticks! — an expression of annoyance or disagreement
- fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
- fieldstripped — Simple past tense and past participle of fieldstrip.
- fifth disease — Pathology. a mild infection, most often seen in children or young adults, caused by a small virus ((the human parvovirus B19)) and marked by a blotchy rash on the cheeks, arms, and legs.
- fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour) A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
- fireside chat — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- first edition — the whole number of copies of a literary work printed first, from the same type, and issued together.
- first reading — the reading of a bill when it is first introduced in a legislative body.
- food security — an economic and social condition of ready access by all members of a household to nutritionally adequate and safe food: a household with high food security.
- for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- foresightedly — In a foresighted manner.
- fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
- fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
- free-spirited — characterized by independence and unconventionality
- free-standing — A free-standing piece of furniture or other object is not fixed to anything, or stands on its own away from other things.
- galactosidase — An enzyme, such as lactase, that is involved in the hydrolytic breakdown of a galactoside.
- gentisic acid — a crystalline, water-soluble compound, C 7 H 6 O 4 , used chiefly in the form of its sodium salt as an analgesic and diaphoretic.
- get rid of sb — If you get rid of someone who is causing problems for you or who you do not like, you do something to prevent them affecting you any more, for example by making them leave.
- ghiordes knot — a hand-tied knot, used in rug weaving, in which the parallel ends of looped yarn alternate with two threads of warp, producing an uneven pile effect.
- gibson desert — a desert in W central Australia: scrub; salt marshes. About 85,000 sq. mi. (220,000 sq. km).
- glycopeptides — Plural form of glycopeptide.
- godwin-austen — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
- good question — pertinent or insightful enquiry
- gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
- half-digested — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
- hand-stitched — stitched by hand rather than by a machine
- harvest index — a measurement of crop yield: the weight of a harvested product as a percentage of the total plant weight of a crop.
- head register — the high register of the human voice.
- headmistressy — typical of the duties and behaviour of a headmistress
- heart disease — any condition of the heart that impairs its functioning.
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- heptaselenide — (chemistry) any selenide containing seven selenium atoms in each molecule.
- herd instinct — the impulse or tendency toward clustering or acting in a group, especially the presumed instinct toward or need for gregariousness and conformity.
- hereditaments — Plural form of hereditament.
- hereditarians — Plural form of hereditarian.
- herod antipas — died after a.d. 39, ruler of Galilee, a.d. 4–39: ordered the execution of John the Baptist and participated in the trial of Jesus.
- hertfordshire — a county in SE England. 631 sq. mi. (1635 sq. km).
- hexadactylism — Sexdactyly.
- high-spirited — characterized by energetic enthusiasm, elation, vivacity, etc.
- hit the skids — get into difficulties
- homoscedastic — having the same variance.
- horse trading — the act or fact of conducting a shrewd exchange or engaging in a horse trade; bargaining.
- horse-trading — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
- house-trained — housebroken.
- housed string — a string of a stair (housed stair) receiving the ends of the risers or treads in a series of housings.