12-letter words containing d, e, o, f, t, r
- forward rate — the agreed price for something that is to be bought or sold at a later date
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- foundationer — a person supported by funds from a foundation, or serving as a member of a foundation
- foundry type — type cast in individual characters for setting by hand.
- fourth grade — school year: age 9-10
- fractionated — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionate.
- fried potato — Fried potatoes are pieces of potato cooked in oil or fat.
- friend-court — amicus curiae.
- front loader — a washing machine with a door at the front which opens one side of the drum into which washing is placed
- front-loaded — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
- front-loader — a machine or appliance, as a washing machine, loaded and unloaded through an opening in the front (as distinguished from a top loader).
- fudge factor — any variable component added to an experiment, plan, or the like that can be manipulated to allow leeway for error.
- gersdorffite — a mineral, sulfide-arsenide of nickel, NiAsS, occurring in metallic, light-gray cubes.
- gradeflation — grade inflation.
- head for sth — If you a have a head for something, you can deal with it easily. For example, if you have a head for figures, you can do arithmetic easily, and if you have a head for heights, you can climb to a great height without feeling afraid.
- headforemost — headfirst (def 1).
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- imperforated — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
- looked-after — (of children) brought up by the state in institutions because their parents are dead or not able to care for them properly
- midafternoon — the part of the afternoon centering approximately on three o'clock; the period approximately halfway between noon and sunset.
- mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree
- nonfederated — not federated
- nonvitrified — Not converted into glass.
- off the grid — not using any of the services, such as bank accounts, public utilites, etc, that allow a person's activities to be monitored by the authorities
- old favorite — If you refer to something as an old favorite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
- out of order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- outperformed — Simple past tense and past participle of outperform.
- over-stuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
- overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- overidentify — to identify with someone else to an excessive degree
- pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
- preformatted — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- redefinition — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
- refoundation — an act of refounding
- send out for — If you send out for food, for example pizzas or sandwiches, you phone and ask for it to be delivered to you.
- soft-centred — (of a chocolate or boiled sweet) having a centre consisting of cream, jelly, etc
- soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- tender offer — a public offer to purchase stock of a corporation from its shareholders at a certain price within a stated time limit, often in an effort to win control of the company.
- tin-fluoride — stannous fluoride.
- tractor feed — Computers. a mechanism for aligning and transporting paper for a printer by means of pins that catch in perforations along the edges of the paper.
- type founder — a person engaged in the making of metallic types for printers.
- unconfronted — to face in hostility or defiance; oppose: The feuding factions confronted one another.
- unforecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- unformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.