12-letter words containing d, i, f, r, a
- juiz de fora — a city in SE Brazil, N of Rio de Janeiro.
- left-brained — having the left brain dominant, therefore being more adept at logic, calculation, language, and other thought processes or skills usually associated with the left brain.
- life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
- make friends — get to know people
- married life — living as sb's spouse
- midafternoon — the part of the afternoon centering approximately on three o'clock; the period approximately halfway between noon and sunset.
- modificatory — modifying.
- mud filtrate — Mud filtrate is the liquid part of the mud which can pass through a medium and become separated from the mudcake.
- neo-freudian — of or relating to a group of psychoanalytic thinkers whose modifications of Freudian analytic theory place increased emphasis on ego functions and interpersonal relationships.
- off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
- 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.
- overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
- proofreading — correction of text
- radiant flux — the time rate of flow of radiant energy.
- radical left — the faction representing extreme left-wing political views, often Marxist or Maoist in ideology.
- range finder — any of various instruments for determining the distance from the observer to a particular object, as for sighting a gun or adjusting the focus of a camera.
- rangefinding — the act or process of determining the distance of an object from the observer
- rat-infested — (of a place or vessel) that has many rats
- reclassified — to classify anew.
- red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- refoundation — an act of refounding
- refrigerated — made frozen or cold, esp for preservative purposes; chilled or frozen
- richard korf — (person) A Professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Richard Korf received his B.S. from MIT in 1977, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1980 and 1983. From 1983 to 1985 he served as Herbert M. Singer Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Dr. Korf studies problem-solving, heuristic search and planning in artificial intelligence. He wrote "Learning to Solve Problems by Searching for Macro-Operators" (Pitman, 1985). He serves on the editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence, and the Journal of Applied Intelligence. Dr. Korf is the recipient of several awards and is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
- road traffic — traffic on the road
- scabbardfish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
- scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
- scared stiff — terrified
- self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
- self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
- sir sandford — Mount, a mountain in SE British Columbia, Canada, in the Selkirk Mountains. 11,590 feet (3533 meters).
- sniff around — dog: try to pick up scent
- stand in for — to substitute for
- sulfarsenide — any compound containing an arsenide and a sulfide.
- surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- traffic duty — an assignment to help the flow of traffic and enforce traffic regulations
- turf dancing — a fluid style of street-dancing originating in the Bay Area of San Francisco, California
- ultrarefined — having been refined exceptionally well or thoroughly
- unaffrighted — to frighten.
- unfabricated — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- unformalized — not formalized
- unformidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- unfranchised — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- unstratified — not stratified; not arranged in strata or layers: unstratified rocks.
- window frame — structure surrounding a window pane
- wing-forward — either of the two forwards positioned at the outside of a scrum
- woman friend — a female friend
- world's fair — a large international exposition with exhibitions of arts, crafts, industrial and agricultural products, scientific achievements, etc.