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12-letter words containing d, i, o

  • faradization — to stimulate or treat (muscles or nerves) with induced alternating electric current (distinguished from galvanize).
  • fare-dodging — the practice of trying to travel on public transport without paying the fare
  • fascia-board — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
  • fastidiously — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
  • feldspathoid — Also, feldspathoidal. of or relating to a group of minerals similar in chemical composition to certain feldspars except for a lower silica content.
  • fellowshiped — Simple past tense and past participle of fellowship.
  • fennoscandia — region in N Europe, including Scandinavia, Finland, and the part of NW Russia west of the White Sea
  • ferric oxide — a dark-red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, Fe 2 O 3 , occurring naturally, as hematite and rust, or synthesized: used chiefly as a pigment, as a mordant, as a coating for magnetic recording tape, and in the manufacture of polishing compounds.
  • ferrocyanide — a salt of ferrocyanic acid, as potassium ferrocyanide, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 .
  • ferrofluidic — Of or pertaining to a ferrofluid.
  • fianchettoed — Simple past tense and past participle of fianchetto.
  • fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
  • fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
  • field cornet — a commander of burgher troops called up in time of war or in an emergency, esp during the 19th century
  • field hockey — a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.
  • field ration — ration issued and authorized for troops in the field.
  • field sports — sports carried on in the open countryside, such as hunting, shooting, or fishing
  • field theory — a detailed mathematical description of the distribution and movement of matter under the influence of one or more fields.
  • field-holler — a cry employing falsetto, portamento, and sudden changes of pitch, used in African-American work songs, later integrated into the techniques of the blues
  • fifty-second — next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
  • fig marigold — any of various plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, having showy flowers of white, yellow, or pink.
  • find oneself — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
  • fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
  • firing order — the sequence of ignition in the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine
  • fixed-income — gaining or yielding a more or less uniform rate of income.
  • flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
  • flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
  • flip-flopped — shod in flip-flops; wearing flip-flops
  • float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
  • floodlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of floodlight.
  • floppy drive — disk drive
  • florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
  • florida moss — Spanish moss.
  • florida room — a sunroom.
  • flower child — (especially in the 1960s) a young person, especially a hippie, rejecting conventional society and advocating love, peace, and simple, idealistic values.
  • fluidization — The act or process of fluidizing.
  • fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
  • fluoridation — the addition of fluorides to the public water supply to reduce the incidence of tooth decay.
  • foefie slide — a rope, fixed at an incline, along which a person suspended on a pulley may traverse a space, esp across a river
  • folding door — a door with hinged sections that can be folded flat against one another when opened.
  • folding rule — a rule composed of light strips of wood joined by rivets so as to be foldable, all the opening and closing parts being in parallel planes.
  • folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
  • folie a deux — the sharing of delusional ideas by two people who are closely associated.
  • folinic acid — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 20 H 23 N 7 O 7 , produced by fermentation or derived from folic acid, used in medicine in the treatment of certain anemias.
  • food fascist — a person who shows extreme, intolerant views in relation to food
  • food pyramid — successive levels of predation in a food chain represented schematically as a pyramid because upper levels normally consist of decreasing numbers of larger predators.
  • food science — the study of the nature of foods and the changes that occur in them naturally and as a result of handling and processing.
  • food service — the preparation, delivery, serving, etc., of ready-to-eat foods: The cafeteria employs over 20 people in food service.
  • food stylist — a person whose job is to arrange food in an attractive way for professional photographs or broadcasts.
  • food subsidy — a financial aid supplied by a government, as to industry, farmers, or consumers, in order to make low-cost food available to the poor
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