12-letter words containing d, f
- bird fancier — a person who keeps, breeds, or sells birds
- bird of prey — A bird of prey is a bird such as an eagle or a hawk that kills and eats other birds and animals.
- birth defect — an inherited disease or condition that a baby is born with
- black friday — the day after the US Thanksgiving Day in late November, regarded as the start of the Christmas shopping season
- bladder fern — a small fern, Cystoperis fragilis, with graceful lanceolate leaves, typically growing on limestone rocks and walls
- blind flange — a disk for closing the end of a pipe, having holes for bolting it to a flange.
- body fascism — intolerance of those whose bodies do not conform to a particular view of what is desirable
- book of odes — a collection of 305 poems compiled in the 6th century b.c. by Confucius.
- bosom friend — an intimate friend
- bottomfeeder — (networking) An RSS aggregator.
- braced frame — a building frame employing a heavy, braced framework of solid girts mortised into solid posts the full height of the frame, with studs one story high filling the interstices.
- brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass
- brazen-faced — shameless or impudent
- break of day — dawn; daybreak.
- breed of cat — type; sort; variety: The new airplane is a completely different breed of cat from any that has been designed before.
- brickfielder — a hot wind in parts of Australia, originally applied to a wind which blew over Sydney carrying dust from the neighbouring Brickfields sand hills
- bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
- broken-field — of or having to do with running in which the ball carrier zigzags so as to go past defenders and avoid being tackled by them
- buffalo bird — a cowbird, Molothrus ater, of North America.
- busted flush — a poker hand with four cards of the same suit that fails to form a flush when the final card is dealt
- call of duty — responsibilities
- campodeiform — resembling insects of the genus Campodea
- candlefishes — Plural form of candlefish.
- cape-froward — Cape, a cape in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: southernmost point of mainland South America.
- card surfing — a form of cash-card fraud in which one person watches another using a cash dispenser, notes his or her personal identification number, and, after an accomplice has stolen the card, uses the card to withdraw cash
- cardan shaft — A cardan shaft or cardan drive is a propeller shaft fitted with universal joints at each end.
- cardinalfish — any of the perchlike fishes of the family Apogonidae, many species of which are bright red with black markings.
- carryforward — carry-over.
- cash deficit — the excess of cash disbursements over cash receipts in any given fiscal period
- cattleduffer — a cattle thief.
- center field — the middle area of the outfield
- certificated — A certificated person has been awarded a certificate to prove that they have achieved a certain level or standard.
- chafing dish — a vessel with a heating apparatus beneath it, for cooking or keeping food warm at the table
- chef's salad — A chef's salad is a green salad with hard-boiled egg and strips of meat and cheese on top.
- chesterfield — a man's knee-length overcoat, usually with a fly front to conceal the buttons and having a velvet collar
- chicken feed — If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chicken feed.
- childproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of childproof.
- chipped beef — dried or smoked beef sliced into shavings, often served in a cream sauce
- chloroformed — Simple past tense and past participle of chloroform.
- ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
- circumflexed — (linguistics, of a written word) exhibiting circumflex accent.
- clap hold of — to grasp suddenly or forcibly
- clipped form — a shortened form of a word, as for example doc for doctor
- close-fisted — very careful with money; mean
- close-reefed — having most or all of the sail reefs taken in.
- cloud forest — a forest, usually near coastal mountain peaks in tropical regions, that has an almost constant cloud cover, even during the dry season
- clovenfooted — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
- codefendants — Plural form of codefendant.
- codification — the systematic organization of methods, rules, etc
- cold comfort — If you say that a slightly encouraging fact or event is cold comfort to someone, you mean that it gives them little or no comfort because their situation is so difficult or unpleasant.