11-letter words containing a, c, r, d
- fact finder — a person who searches impartially for the facts or actualities of a subject or situation, especially one appointed to conduct an official investigation, as in a labor-management conflict.
- fancy dress — a costume for a ball, masquerade, etc., chosen to please the fancy, usually a costume characteristic of a particular period or place, class of persons, or historical or fictitious character.
- far-fetched — improbable; not naturally pertinent; being only remotely connected; forced; strained: He brought in a far-fetched example in an effort to prove his point.
- feral child — a neglected child who engages in lawless or anti-social behaviour
- fiduciaries — Plural form of fiduciary.
- fiduciarily — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- fiscal drag — the process by which, during inflation, rising incomes draw people into higher tax brackets, so that their real incomes may fall; this acts as a restraint on the expansion of the economy
- food parcel — parcels of food prepared and sent, esp by charitable organizations, to people in need
- forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
- force-draft — to draft (a law, proposal, or the like) quickly or under extreme pressure: The committee must force-draft a code of ethics to present to the meeting tomorrow.
- forced sale — a sale held as a result of a judicial order.
- forereached — Simple past tense and past participle of forereach.
- formic acid — a colorless, irritating, fuming, water-soluble liquid, CH 2 O 2 , originally obtained from ants and now manufactured synthetically, used in dyeing and tanning and in medicine chiefly as a counterirritant and astringent.
- fratricidal — a person who kills his or her brother.
- fratricides — Plural form of fratricide.
- fraudulence — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- fraudulency — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- freddie mac — Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- fresh-faced — having a healthy or ruddy appearance
- frogmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of frogmarch.
- fuck around — to have sexual intercourse with.
- garden city — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- gatecrashed — Simple past tense and past participle of gatecrash.
- genocidaire — a person who is guilty of genocide
- glacierized — Modified by the action of glaciers.
- good graces — If you are in someone's good graces, they are pleased with you.
- grand canal — a canal in E China, extending S from Tientsin to Hangchow. 900 miles (1450 km) long.
- grand chain — a figure in formation dances, such as the lancers and Scottish reels, in which couples split up and move around in a circle in opposite directions, passing all other dancers until reaching their original partners
- grand duchy — a territory ruled by a grand duke or grand duchess.
- grand march — the opening ceremonies of a formal ball, in which guests promenade into or around the ballroom.
- grand-scale — of large proportion, extent, magnitude, etc.: grand-scale efforts; a grand-scale approach.
- grandnieces — Plural form of grandniece.
- granduncles — Plural form of granduncle.
- greenlandic — a dialect of Inuit, spoken in Greenland.
- griddlecake — a thin cake of batter cooked on a griddle; pancake.
- grind crank — A mythical accessory to a terminal. A crank on the side of a monitor, which when operated makes a zizzing noise and causes the computer to run faster. Usually one does not refer to a grind crank out loud, but merely makes the appropriate gesture and noise. See grind. Historical note: At least one real machine actually had a grind crank - the R1, a research machine built toward the end of the days of the great vacuum tube computers, in 1959. R1 (also known as "The Rice Institute Computer" (TRIC) and later as "The Rice University Computer" (TRUC)) had a single-step/free-run switch for use when debugging programs. Since single-stepping through a large program was rather tedious, there was also a crank with a cam and gear arrangement that repeatedly pushed the single-step button. This allowed one to "crank" through a lot of code, then slow down to single-step for a bit when you got near the code of interest, poke at some registers using the console typewriter, and then keep on cranking.
- hack around — to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
- hairy-faced — having a face covered with hair.
- hand scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
- handcrafted — handicraft.
- handcrafter — One who handcrafts or engages in handcraft or handicraft.
- handicapper — Horse Racing. a racetrack official or employee who assigns the weight a horse must carry in a race. a person employed, as by a newspaper, to make predictions on the outcomes of horse races.
- handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
- handscrolls — Plural form of handscroll.
- hard cheese — an unpleasant, difficult, or adverse situation: It's hard cheese for the unskilled worker these days.
- hard launch — the general or official launch, esp of a website, after which all features, products, and services are understood to be available
- hard sector — (storage) An archaic floppy disk format employing multiple synchronisation holes in the media to define the sectors.
- hard-coated — having a coarsely textured coat, as a dog.
- hard-ticket — a ticket entitling one to a reserved seat.