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12-letter words containing d, e, a, f

  • disregardful — neglectful; careless.
  • dissatisfied — not satisfied or pleased; discontented.
  • dissatisfies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dissatisfy.
  • distaff side — the female side of a family (opposed to spear side).
  • distastefull — Archaic form of distasteful.
  • double fault — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) two faults in succession, resulting in the loss of the point, the loss of the serve, or both.
  • double-faced — practicing duplicity; hypocritical.
  • draft dodger — a person who evades or attempts to evade compulsory military service.
  • draft letter — the first version of a letter
  • draftsperson — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, especially in an architectural or engineering firm.
  • dram refresh — (storage)   The operation which cycles through a DRAM reading each row and writing it back again to compensate for the gradual leakage of charge from the capacitors which store the data. This may be done by the CPU but is often done by a dedicated memory controller.
  • dreadfulness — The characteristic of being dreadful.
  • dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
  • duke of alba — Duke of, Alva, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo.
  • duncan phyfe — of, relating to, or resembling the furniture made by Duncan Phyfe, especially the earlier pieces in the Sheraton and Directoire styles.
  • duty of care — the legal obligation to safeguard others from harm while they are in your care, using your services, or exposed to your activities
  • dwarf cherry — any of several low, North American cherries that grow on dry or sandy soil, especially Prunus pumila, of the Great Lakes region.
  • dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
  • dwarf laurel — a low North American shrub, Kalmia angustifolia, of the heath family, having oblong leaves poisonous to grazing animals.
  • dwarf planet — a spherical celestial body revolving about the sun, similar to a planet but not large enough to gravitationally clear its orbital region of most or all other celestial bodies. Pluto is a dwarf planet.
  • dye transfer — a photographic printing method by which a full-color image is produced by the printing of separate cyan, magenta, and yellow images from individual gelatin relief matrices.
  • ebb and flow — tidal movement
  • edifications — Plural form of edification.
  • eisteddfodau — Plural form of eisteddfod.
  • enfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of enfranchise.
  • 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.
  • face-centred — (of a crystal) having a lattice point at the centre of each face of each unit cell as well as at the corners
  • facial index — Craniometry. the ratio of the breadth of a face to its height.
  • failed state — a nation in which the government has lost political authority and control and is unable to fulfill the basic responsibilities of a sovereign state.
  • fainthearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
  • fair-skinned — having pale skin; pale-complexioned
  • faits divers — brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational, lurid, etc.
  • 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
  • false indigo — any of several North American shrubs belonging to the genus Amorpha, of the legume family, especially A. fruticosa, having compound leaves with pinnate leaflets and long, dense clusters of purplish flowers.
  • false mildew — downy mildew (def 1).
  • false-mildew — Also called false mildew. any fungus of the family Peronosporaceae, causing many plant diseases and producing a white, downy mass of conidiophores, usually on the under surface of the leaves of the host plant.
  • falsehearted — Alternative spelling of false-hearted.
  • familiarised — Simple past tense and past participle of familiarise.
  • familiarized — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
  • far and near — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
  • 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.
  • faraday cage — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
  • fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
  • fare-dodging — the practice of trying to travel on public transport without paying the fare
  • farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
  • farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
  • farthingdale — (British, dated, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.
  • fasciculated — Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
  • fascinatedly — In a fascinated manner; with fascination.
  • father's day — a day, usually the third Sunday in June, set aside in honor of fathers.
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