12-letter words containing a, u, d
- enculturated — Simple past tense and past participle of enculturate.
- endeavouring — Present participle of endeavour.
- endonuclease — An enzyme that cleaves a polynucleotide chain by separating nucleotides other than the two end ones.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- endurability — The state or quality of being endurable.
- equidistance — (uncountable) Equal distance.
- equilibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of equilibrate.
- ethical drug — a drug which is only available legally with a doctor's prescription or consent
- expostulated — Simple past tense and past participle of expostulate.
- extramundane — Outside or beyond the physical world.
- face down/up — If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
- fasciculated — Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
- fastidiously — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- fatigue duty — any of the mainly domestic duties performed by military personnel, esp as a punishment
- fault-finder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- faultfinding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
- favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
- 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.
- figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
- firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
- float around — A rumour or idea that is floating around is often heard or talked about.
- fluid assets — assets that are in the form of cash or easily convertible into cash
- 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.
- fluidization — The act or process of fluidizing.
- flummadiddle — A baked main course pudding consisting of stale bread, pork fat, molasses, and spices including cinnamon and allspice. It was a part of early American cuisine, especially in New England.
- fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
- fluoridation — the addition of fluorides to the public water supply to reduce the incidence of tooth decay.
- flutterboard — a kickboard.
- flying squad — a trained, mobile group of police officers, business executives, labor officials, or the like, capable of performing specialized tasks whenever or wherever sent, often for use in emergencies.
- folie a deux — the sharing of delusional ideas by two people who are closely associated.
- food vacuole — a membrane-enclosed cell vacuole with a digestive function, containing material taken up in by the process of phagocytosis.
- foot-poundal — a foot-pound-second unit of work or energy equal to the work done by a force of one poundal when its point of application moves through a distance of one foot in the direction of the force. Abbreviation: ft-pdl.
- formularized — Simple past tense and past participle of formularize.
- forward push — A forward push is a feature of distillation columns (= tall vessels for distillation) in which zones that allow higher contact between substances are near the top of the column.
- foundational — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- foundationer — a person supported by funds from a foundation, or serving as a member of a foundation
- foundry sand — silica-based sand mixed with clay, oil, etc, to improve its cohesive strength, used in moulding
- fountainhead — a fountain or spring from which a stream flows; the head or source of a stream.
- four old cat — three old cat played with four batters.
- four-in-hand — a long necktie to be tied in a slipknot with the ends left hanging.
- fourth grade — school year: age 9-10
- fraudulently — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- french sudan — former name of Mali.
- frustratedly — In a frustrated manner.
- fudge factor — any variable component added to an experiment, plan, or the like that can be manipulated to allow leeway for error.
- full forward — an attacking player who plays in the centre of the forward line
- fumaric acid — a colorless, odorless, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 4 H 4 O 4 , isomeric with maleic acid, essential to cellular respiration in most eukaryotic organisms: used in the making of synthetic resins and as a replacement for tartaric acid in beverages and baking powders.
- fund manager — A fund manager is someone whose job involves investing the money contained in a fund, for example, a mutual fund, on behalf of another person or organization.