12-letter words containing d, i, s, f
- gersdorffite — a mineral, sulfide-arsenide of nickel, NiAsS, occurring in metallic, light-gray cubes.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- good offices — Someone's good offices are the help that they give to other people who are trying to achieve something.
- guide fossil — index fossil.
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
- huddersfield — a town in West Yorkshire, in N central England.
- hydrosulfide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- in spadefuls — in an extreme or emphatic way
- indefeasible — not defeasible; not to be annulled or made void; not forfeitable.
- indefeasibly — In an indefeasible manner.
- indefensible — not justifiable; inexcusable: indefensible behavior.
- indefensibly — In an indefensible manner.
- indefinables — Plural form of indefinable.
- index fossil — a widely distributed fossil, of narrow range in time, regarded as characteristic of a given geological formation, used especially in determining the age of related formations.
- infanticides — Plural form of infanticide.
- infidelities — marital disloyalty; adultery.
- inflamedness — The state or quality of being inflamed.
- interdiffuse — (of two or more fluids) to diffuse mutually
- isle of dogs — a district in the East End of London, bounded on three sides by the River Thames, and a focus of major office development (Canary Wharf) in recent years
- isoflavonoid — (organic chemistry) Any compound, isomeric with the flavonoids, derived from 3-phenyl-1,4-benzopyrone.
- latifundista — the owner of a latifundio in Latin America or Spain.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- macclesfield — a market town in NW England, in Cheshire: former centre of the silk industry; pharmaceuticals, services. Pop: 50 688 (2001)
- make friends — get to know people
- manifoldness — (mathematics) multiplicity.
- misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
- misspecified — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree
- muffin stand — a small stand having several tiers for holding muffins, cakes, etc., and a tea service.
- needlefishes — Plural form of needlefish.
- neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
- newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
- nun's fiddle — trumpet marine.
- of two minds — If you are of two minds, you are uncertain about what to do, especially when you have to choose between two courses of action.
- off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
- oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.
- outside-left — a footballer who plays on the outside left wing of the field
- overfinished — having an excessively polished finish
- pension fund — a fund created and maintained, as by a corporation, to provide benefits under a pension plan.
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- pfund series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
- post-fordism — the idea that modern industrial production has moved away from mass production in huge factories, as pioneered by Henry Ford, towards specialized markets based on small flexible manufacturing units
- prespecified — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- pridefulness — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- quasi-feudal — of, relating to, or of the nature of a fief or fee: a feudal estate.
- 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