11-letter words containing d, e, a, f, i
- funeralized — to hold or officiate at a funeral service for.
- fur brigade — (formerly) a convoy of canoes, horses, or dog sleighs that transported furs and other goods between trading posts and towns or factories
- gaff-rigged — (of a sailboat) having one or more gaff sails.
- giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
- god-fearing — deeply respectful or fearful of God.
- gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- haddonfield — a town in SW New Jersey.
- hairy-faced — having a face covered with hair.
- half-boiled — drunk.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-filled — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- half-hidden — concealed; obscure; covert: hidden meaning; hidden hostility.
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- half-witted — feeble-minded.
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
- head office — headquarters
- hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
- id software — (games) Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
- idler shaft — a shaft carrying one or more gearwheels that idles between a driver shaft and a driven shaft, usually to reverse the direction of rotation or provide different spacing of gearwheels, esp in a gearbox
- ill-favored — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- in-stead of — as a substitute or replacement; in the place or stead of someone or something: We ordered tea but were served coffee instead.
- indefinable — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- indefinably — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- indian file — in single file.
- infanticide — the act of killing an infant.
- infeudation — the act of putting a vassal in possession of a fief
- infibulated — Simple past tense and past participle of infibulate.
- infiltrated — Simple past tense and past participle of infiltrate.
- inflammated — (nonstandard) Inflamed.
- infomediary — An Internet company that gathers and links information on particular subjects on behalf of commercial organizations and their potential customers.
- infraorders — Misspelling of infra-orders.
- infrigidate — (obsolete) To chill; to make cold.
- insufflated — Simple past tense and past participle of insufflate.
- interleafed — Simple past tense and past participle of interleaf.
- lady friend — female companion
- ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
- land office — a government office for the transaction of business relating to public lands.
- life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
- lindisfarne — Holy Island (def 1).
- madefaction — the process of making wet
- mailed fist — superior force, especially military force, when presented as a threat: The country showed its mailed fist in negotiations.
- main-de-fer — manifer.
- misfeatured — Having ugly or misshapen features.
- multi-faced — having a specified kind of face or number of faces (usually used in combination): a sweet-faced child; the two-faced god.
- myriad-leaf — an aquatic plant, Myriophyllum verticillatum, of the North Temperate Zone, having hairlike, submerged leaves.
- oil of cade — a juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean area, whose wood on destructive distillation yields an oily liquid (oil of cade) used in treating skin diseases.
- paddy field — a flooded piece of land used for growing rice
- pitch-faced — (of a stone) having all arrises in the same plane and the faces roughly dressed with a pick.