11-letter words containing d, e, o, f
- double life — If you say that someone is living a double life, you mean that they lead two separate and very different lives, and they appear to be a different person in each.
- downshifted — Simple past tense and past participle of downshift.
- draftswomen — Plural form of draftswoman.
- dragonflies — Plural form of dragonfly.
- drip coffee — a beverage prepared in a vessel in which boiling water filters from a top compartment through the coffee into a pot below.
- duffel coat — a hooded overcoat of sturdy wool, usually knee-length and with frog fasteners.
- duffle coat — a hooded overcoat of sturdy wool, usually knee-length and with frog fasteners.
- dumbfounded — to make speechless with amazement; astonish.
- ecofriendly — Alternative spelling of eco-friendly.
- edification — an act of edifying.
- edificatory — intended or serving to edify.
- effloresced — Simple past tense and past participle of effloresce.
- eichendorff — Joseph (ˈjoːzɛf), Freiherr von. 1788–1857, German poet and novelist, regarded as one of the greatest German romantic lyricists
- eisteddfods — Plural form of eisteddfod.
- elderflower — The flower of the elder, used to make wines, cordials, and other drinks.
- end for end — with the ends, or the position, reversed
- end of line — (character) (EOL) Synonym for newline, derived perhaps from the original CDC 6600 Pascal. The abbreviation "EOL" is now rare, but widely recognised and occasionally used for brevity. Used in the example entry under BNF. Out of context this would probably be (deliberately) ambiguous because different systems used different (combinations of) characters to mark the end of a line. Unix uses a line feed; DOS uses carriage return, line feed (CRLF) and the Macintosh uses carriage return. See also EOF.
- end of text — control-C
- enfouldered — charged with lightning
- exboyfriend — Alternative form of ex-boyfriend.
- face powder — a cosmetic powder used to give a mat finish to the face.
- 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.
- fanfaronade — bragging; bravado; bluster.
- fare-dodger — a person who tries to travel on public transport without paying the fare
- fast-fooder — Also, fast-foodery [fast-foo-duh-ree, fahst-] /ˈfæstˈfu də ri, ˈfɑst-/ (Show IPA). a restaurant that sells fast food.
- fecundation — to make prolific or fruitful.
- federations — Plural form of federation.
- feeder road — a secondary road used to bring traffic to a major road.
- feedforward — The modification or control of a process using its anticipated results or effects.
- feedthrough — a connector used to pass a conductor through a circuit board or enclosure.
- femtosecond — One quadrillionth of a second.
- fernando po — a former name of Bioko.
- ferredoxins — Plural form of ferredoxin.
- feu de joie — a salute of musketry fired successively by each man in turn along a line and back
- feudatories — Plural form of feudatory.
- field grown — (of a plant) grown in a field rather than in a pot or other artificial environment
- field house — a building housing the dressing facilities, storage spaces, etc., used in connection with an athletic field.
- field mouse — any of various short-tailed mice or voles inhabiting fields and meadows.
- field sport — Hunting, shooting birds, and fishing with a rod are referred to as field sports when they are done mainly for pleasure.
- fieldstones — Plural form of fieldstone.
- fieldworker — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.
- file folder — a thin cardboard folder of a size to be stored in the drawer of a file cabinet and for containing correspondence and other files.
- file-powder — a powder made from the ground leaves of the sassafras tree, used as a thickener and to impart a pungent taste to soups, gumbos, and other dishes.
- filled gold — a composition consisting of gold-plating welded to and rolled with a backing of brass or other base metal, at least 1/20 (0.05) of the total weight being that of the gold.
- finger food — food intended to be picked up with the fingers and eaten.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- fireproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of fireproof.
- first-order — Not higher-order.