11-letter words containing d, a, f
- edificatory — intended or serving to edify.
- effectuated — to bring about; effect.
- effeminated — (of a man or boy) having traits, tastes, habits, etc., traditionally considered feminine, as softness or delicacy.
- face powder — a cosmetic powder used to give a mat finish to the face.
- face-harden — to harden the surface of (metal), as by chilling or casehardening.
- facilitated — to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
- 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.
- factfinding — 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.
- faddishness — The state or condition of being faddish.
- fair dinkum — dinkum.
- fair-haired — having light-colored hair.
- fair-minded — characterized by fair judgment; impartial; unprejudiced: a wise and fair-minded judge.
- fairgrounds — Alternative spelling of fairground; the grounds where a fair is held.
- fairy bread — slices of white bread covered with small beads of brightly coloured sugar, served as a children’s snack
- faith-based — affiliated with, supported by, or based on a religion or religious group: faith-based charities.
- fall behind — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fallen idol — If you refer to someone as a fallen idol, you mean that they have lost people's respect and admiration because of something bad that they have done.
- fallow deer — A fallow deer is a small deer that has a reddish coat which develops white spots in summer.
- fallow-deer — a Eurasian deer, Dama dama, with a fallow or yellowish coat.
- familicidal — Of or pertaining to familicide.
- fanaticised — Simple past tense and past participle of fanaticise.
- fanaticized — to make fanatical.
- fancy dance — Also called pan-Indian dancing. a fast Native American powwow dance that features jumping and twirling, with participants wearing bright colors and flying feathers and ribbons.
- 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.
- fancy goods — small decorative gifts; knick-knacks
- fandabidozi — (British, informal) Very good.
- fanfaronade — bragging; bravado; bluster.
- fanny adams — absolutely nothing at all
- fantasyland — a place or circumstance existing only in the imagination or as an ideal; dream world.
- far distant — at, to, or from a great distance in space or time
- 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.
- far-sighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- fare-dodger — a person who tries to travel on public transport without paying the fare
- fart around — a flatus expelled through the anus.
- fast-fooder — Also, fast-foodery [fast-foo-duh-ree, fahst-] /ˈfæstˈfu də ri, ˈfɑst-/ (Show IPA). a restaurant that sells fast food.
- fastigiated — Alternative form of fastigiate.
- fatheadedly — in a fatheaded manner
- fatherlands — Plural form of fatherland.
- faultfinder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- fauxbourdon — Music. a 15th-century compositional technique employing three voices, the upper and lower voices progressing an octave or a sixth apart while the middle voice extemporaneously doubles the upper part at a fourth below.
- favellidium — (in certain red algae) a cystocarp wholly or partly immersed in a frond.
- feather bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- feather-bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- featherbeds — Plural form of featherbed.
- featheredge — an edge that thins out like a feather.
- featherhead — featherbrain.
- fecundating — Present participle of fecundate.
- fecundation — to make prolific or fruitful.
- federalists — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
- federalized — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.