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13-letter words containing t, u, d, e

  • fidus achates — a faithful friend or companion
  • fine adjuster — (jargon, tool, humour)   A tool used for percussive maintenance, also known as a "hammer".
  • flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
  • fluid-extract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • 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.
  • forked tongue — lying or deceitful talk
  • fort duquesne — Abraham [a-bra-am] /a braˈam/ (Show IPA), 1610–88, French naval commander.
  • foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
  • fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
  • fourth-grader — a child in the fourth grade
  • fuel-injected — (of an engine) having fuel injection.
  • full-bottomed — (of a wig) long at the back
  • full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
  • fundamentally — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • general audit — an audit of all a company's accounts
  • get around to — When you get around to doing something that you have delayed doing or have been too busy to do, you finally do it.
  • get-up-and-go — energy, drive, and enthusiasm.
  • go the rounds — If a story, idea, or joke is going the rounds or doing the rounds, a lot of people have heard it and are telling it to other people.
  • 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
  • goodnaturedly — In a good-natured manner.
  • grand quarter — a quartered coat of arms, itself one of the quarters of a coat of arms.
  • granddaughter — a daughter of one's son or daughter.
  • grandiloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • great bustard — a large bustard, Otis tarda, of southern and central Europe and western and central Asia, having a wingspread of about 8 feet (2.4 meters).
  • gros de tours — a ribbed silk fabric made with a two- or three-ply warp interlaced with organzine and tram filling.
  • ground beetle — any of numerous nocturnal, terrestrial beetles of the family Carabidae that feed chiefly on other insects.
  • ground effect — the improvement to the aerodynamic qualities of a low-slung motor vehicle resulting from a cushion of air beneath it
  • ground return — Ground return is the return path for an electrical circuit made by connections to ground at each end.
  • ground stroke — a stroke made by hitting the ball after it has bounced from the ground. Compare volley (def 4b).
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • groundstrokes — Plural form of groundstroke.
  • gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • haemodilution — an increase in the fluid content of blood leading to a lower concentration of red blood cells
  • half-educated — having undergone education: educated people.
  • hard-featured — having stern, harsh, or unattractive features.
  • headquartered — to situate in headquarters.
  • herd immunity — the immunity or resistance to a particular infection that occurs in a group of people or animals when a very high percentage of individuals have been vaccinated or previously exposed to the infection.
  • here document — (operating system)   Data included in a Unix shell script or Perl script using the "<<" syntax.
  • hexadactylous — hexadactylic
  • 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.
  • household art — any of the skills necessary to the efficient running of a household, as cooking or keeping a family budget.
  • humboldt peak — a mountain in S Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo range. 14,064 feet (4290 meters).
  • humped cattle — any of several breeds of domestic cattle developed from the Indian species Bos indicus and characterized by a hump of fat and muscle over the shoulders.
  • hundredweight — Also called cental, quintal. a unit of avoirdupois weight commonly equivalent to 100 pounds (45.359 kilograms) in the U.S. Abbreviation: cwt.
  • hunt and peck — a slow and inefficient method of typing by looking for each key separately before striking it: used by untrained typists.
  • hunt-and-peck — a method of typing while looking at the keyboard, usually using only the forefingers to press the keys
  • hunting lodge — a house or hut in the country or in the mountains where people stay on holiday when they want to go hunting
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