13-letter words containing d, r, a, f, t
- front-loading — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
- frontage road — a local road that runs parallel to an expressway, providing access to roadside stores and businesses; a service road.
- frosted glass — etched glass with a translucent surface
- full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
- glacial drift — material, as gravel, sand, or clay, transported and deposited by a glacier or by glacial meltwater.
- grandfathered — Simple past tense and past participle of grandfather.
- grandfatherly — of or characteristic of a grandfather.
- half-deserted — (of a place) not having many inhabitants, visitors, etc
- half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
- halfheartedly — Without enthusiasm nor interest.
- handcraftsman — A handicraftsman.
- hard and fast — strongly binding; not to be set aside or violated: hard-and-fast rules.
- hard-and-fast — strongly binding; not to be set aside or violated: hard-and-fast rules.
- hard-featured — having stern, harsh, or unattractive features.
- hartford fern — a climbing or sprawling fern, Lygodium palmatum, of the eastern U.S., having deeply lobed ivylike leaves.
- head of water — a quantity of water
- hydrofracture — (geology) Rock fracture caused by the pressure of freezing water.
- hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- infrared star — a star radiating strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- infrigidation — (obsolete) The act of chilling or making cold; congelation.
- landing craft — any of various flat-bottomed vessels designed to move troops and equipment close to shore.
- life-or-death — life-and-death.
- multiramified — having several branches or branchlike parts
- narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
- nondefamatory — Not defamatory.
- nonfraudulent — Not fraudulent.
- old favourite — If you refer to something as an old favourite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
- out of danger — no longer at risk
- oxford accent — the accent associated with Oxford English
- post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- prefabricated — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- preformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
- quadrifoliate — (botany) Having four leaves or leaflets.
- radiation fog — fog produced by the nocturnal cooling of the surface boundary layer to a temperature at which its content of water vapor condenses.
- railroad flat — an apartment whose series of narrow rooms forms a more or less straight line.
- refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
- saturated fat — a type of single-bond animal or vegetable fat, as that found in butter, meat, egg yolks, and coconut or palm oil, that in humans tends to increase cholesterol levels in the blood. Compare saturated (def 3).
- scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
- shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
- short-staffed — A company or place that is short-staffed does not have enough people working there.
- slatted floor — a floor made with slats of wood so that water can drain away
- staffordshire — a county in central England. 1154 sq. mi. (2715 sq. km). County seat: Stafford.
- star of david — Judaism: six-pointed star
- stuffed derma — kishke.
- surf and turf — surf and turf.
- tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
- the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
- the-godfather — a novel (1969) by Mario Puzo.
- thenceforward — from that time or place onward.