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13-letter words containing s, r, d

  • edmund andros — Sir Edmund, 1637–1714, British governor in the American colonies, 1686–89, 1692–98.
  • edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • embarrassedly — In an embarrassed manner.
  • endearingness — The quality of being endearing.
  • endometriosis — A condition resulting from the appearance of endometrial tissue outside the uterus and causing pelvic pain.
  • endoparasites — Plural form of endoparasite.
  • endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
  • endosmometric — relating to the measurement of endosmotic action
  • endurableness — (rare) The state of being endurable; endurability.
  • epidermolysis — Loosening of the epidermis, with extensive blistering of the skin and mucous membranes, occurring either after injury, or as a spontaneous and potentially dangerous condition, particularly in children.
  • estrangedness — the state of being estranged
  • evening dress — formal clothing
  • exasperatedly — In an exasperated manner.
  • exercise yard — a piece of enclosed ground in a prison on which inmates can exercise in order to get fit and to remain healthy
  • false-hearted — having a false or treacherous heart; deceitful; perfidious.
  • faroe islands — islands in Atlantic Ocean
  • feeder school — a junior school whose pupils go to a specific secondary school
  • feeder stream — a tributary that feeds into a larger river, canal, etc
  • ferrous oxide — a black powder, FeO, insoluble in water, soluble in acid.
  • 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.
  • field service — military service performed in the field
  • field servoid — (jargon, abuse)   /fee'ld ser'voyd/ A play on "android", a derogatory term for a representative of a field service organisation (see field circus), suggesting an unintelligent rule-driven approach to servicing computer hardware.
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • fieldstripped — Simple past tense and past participle of fieldstrip.
  • figured glass — plate or sheet glass having a pattern rolled onto one side of the surface.
  • film industry — all the companies, studios, people etc involved in making commercial films collectively
  • fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour)   A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
  • finisher card — (in manufacturing fibers) the last card in the carding process, for converting stock into roving.
  • 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.
  • first-aid kit — emergency medical set
  • flabbergasted — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flaming sword — a cultivated bromeliad, Vriesea splendens, native to French Guiana, having long, red bracts and yellow flowers.
  • flash-forward — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
  • flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
  • flesh peddler — a prostitute.
  • flesh-colored — Something that is flesh-colored is yellowish pink in color.
  • flesh-peddler — an employment agent or agency, especially one that recruits executives.
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
  • foldoc source — The source text of FOLDOC is a single plain text file. FOLDOC is also available on paper from your local printer but, at 700,000+ words, that would be about 2000 pages.
  • food industry — the industry surrounding the production of food
  • 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.
  • fool's errand — a completely absurd, pointless, or useless errand.
  • foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
  • 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.
  • forbiddenness — a past participle of forbid.
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
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