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12-letter words containing a, d, r, i, f

  • false friend — a word or expression in one language that, because it resembles one in another language, is often wrongly taken to have the same meaning, for example, the French agenda which means diary, not agenda
  • familiarised — Simple past tense and past participle of familiarise.
  • familiarized — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
  • far and wide — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
  • faradization — to stimulate or treat (muscles or nerves) with induced alternating electric current (distinguished from galvanize).
  • fare-dodging — the practice of trying to travel on public transport without paying the fare
  • farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
  • farthingdale — (British, dated, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.
  • farthingland — a unit of land area, sometimes described as being equivalent to thirty acres
  • fascia-board — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
  • fault-finder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
  • federalistic — an advocate of federalism.
  • federalizing — Present participle of federalize.
  • federatively — from a federative point of view
  • fence lizard — either of two spiny lizards, Sceloporus undulatus and S. occidentalis, of the U.S. and northern Mexico, often seen on fences.
  • ferdinand ii — ("the Catholic") 1452–1516, founder of the Spanish monarchy 1506: king of Sicily 1468–1516, king of Aragon 1479–1516; as Ferdinand III, king of Naples 1504–16; as King Ferdinand V, joint sovereign (with Isabella I) of Castile 1474–1504.
  • ferdinand vi — 1713–59, king of Spain 1746–59 (son of Philip V).
  • ferricyanide — a salt of ferricyanic acid, as potassium ferricyanide, K 3 Fe(CN) 6 .
  • ferrocyanide — a salt of ferrocyanic acid, as potassium ferrocyanide, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 .
  • ferulic acid — a compound, C 10 H 10 O 4 , found in small amounts in lants, that occurs in two isomers, one a yellow oily liquid and the other crystalline.
  • fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
  • fiddler crab — any small, burrowing crab of the genus Uca, characterized by one greatly enlarged claw in the male.
  • fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
  • field ration — ration issued and authorized for troops in the field.
  • fifth-grader — a student in the fifth grade of the American education system
  • fig marigold — any of various plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, having showy flowers of white, yellow, or pink.
  • figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
  • fine-grained — being of fine grain or texture, as certain types of wood, leather, etc.
  • fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
  • fire brigade — a group of firefighters, especially as formed temporarily or called upon to assist a fire department in an emergency.
  • fire hydrant — a hydrant for use in extinguishing fires.
  • fire-damaged — damaged by fire or in a fire
  • firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
  • first reader — the elected official of a church or society who conducts the services and meetings and reads from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and the Scriptures.
  • first-grader — a child in the first grade
  • fixed charge — an expense that cannot be modified.
  • flash drying — Flash drying is a stage in a process to make something bigger, in which a paste-like feed is broken up and dried at the same time.
  • flat-grained — (of sawed lumber) having the annual rings at an angle of less than 45° with the broader surfaces.
  • flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
  • float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
  • florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
  • florida moss — Spanish moss.
  • florida room — a sunroom.
  • fluidextract — 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.
  • fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
  • fluoridation — the addition of fluorides to the public water supply to reduce the incidence of tooth decay.
  • food pyramid — successive levels of predation in a food chain represented schematically as a pyramid because upper levels normally consist of decreasing numbers of larger predators.
  • foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
  • footdragging — the act or practice of acting with deliberate slowness
  • foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
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