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13-letter words containing ie

  • 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 spaniel — one of a British breed of spaniels having a flat or slightly waved, usually black coat, used for hunting and retrieving game.
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • field winding — the electrically conducting circuit, usually a number of coils wound on individual poles and connected in series, that produces the magnetic field in a motor or generator.
  • field-glasses — Field-glasses are the same as binoculars.
  • fieldstripped — Simple past tense and past participle of fieldstrip.
  • fille de joie — a prostitute.
  • film première — the first performance of a particular film in a cinema
  • filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
  • fin de siecle — the end of the 19th century.
  • finnan haddie — smoked haddock.
  • flodden field — a hill in Northumberland where invading Scots were defeated by the English in 1513 and James IV of Scotland was killed
  • food supplies — food obtained for a household or for a country, an expedition, etc
  • footing piece — one of a series of horizontal transverse timbers supporting a platform or staging.
  • formal review — (project)   A technical review conducted with the customer including the types of reviews called for in DOD-STD-2167A (Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, etc.)
  • fort moultrie — William, 1730–1805, U.S. general.
  • fortnightlies — Plural form of fortnightly.
  • fowling piece — a shotgun for shooting wildfowl.
  • friendly fire — Insurance. a fire deliberately set and remaining contained, as in a fireplace or boiler, from which any resulting loss cannot be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to hostile fire).
  • friendsgiving — a gathering of friends to celebrate Thanksgiving with a feast, falling near or on Thanksgiving Day, in contrast to the traditional celebrations that typically involve family.
  • friese-greene — William. 1855–1921, British photographer. He invented (with Mortimer Evans) the first practicable motion-picture camera
  • frontier post — an official point where people or vehicles cross over a border between countries
  • frontispieces — Plural form of frontispiece.
  • functionaries — Plural form of functionary.
  • gabriel fauré — Gabriel Urbain [ga-bree-el oor-ban] /ga briˈɛl urˈbɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1845–1924, French composer.
  • galerie house — (in French Louisiana) a house with its main story above the ground floor and with verandas (galeries) for both stories in tiers on at least one side.
  • gallimaufries — Plural form of gallimaufry.
  • gastrectomies — Plural form of gastrectomy.
  • gastrostomies — Plural form of gastrostomy.
  • geoscientific — relating to geoscience
  • geostrategies — Plural form of geostrategy.
  • glacier cream — a barrier cream, esp against ultraviolet radiation, used when climbing above the snow line
  • glacier table — a stone slab supported over the surface of a mountain glacier by a column or columns of ice.
  • glockenspiels — Plural form of glockenspiel.
  • glossectomies — Plural form of glossectomy.
  • goal-oriented — (of a person) focused on reaching a specific objective or accomplishing a given task; driven by purpose: goal-oriented teams of teachers.
  • goldie's fern — a wood fern, Dryopteris goldiana, of northeastern North America, having large, golden-green, leathery fronds with blades that tilt backward.
  • gopher client — (networking)   A program which runs on your local computer and provides a user interface to the Gopher protocol and to gopher servers. Web browsers can act as Gopher clients and simple Gopher-only clients are available for ordinary terminals, the X Window System, GNU Emacs, and other systems.
  • 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
  • gradient wind — a wind with a velocity and direction that are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force to the centrifugal force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
  • grand marnier — a French cognac-based liqueur with an orange flavour
  • grand prairie — a city in NE Texas.
  • grape variety — type of grape
  • graving piece — a piece of wood let into a wooden hull to replace decayed wood.
  • great calorie — calorie (sense 2)
  • great society — the goal of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President Lyndon B. Johnson, chiefly to enact domestic programs to improve education, provide medical care for the aged, and eliminate poverty.
  • grotesqueries — Plural form of grotesquery.
  • gynecocracies — Plural form of gynecocracy.
  • hagiographies — Plural form of hagiography.
  • handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
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