12-letter words containing d, i, s, n, f
- fiendishness — The quality of being fiendish.
- fifty-second — next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
- find oneself — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
- finder's fee — a fee paid to a finder or agent who initiates a business transaction, usually a percentage of the money earned.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
- flash drying — Flash drying is a stage in a process to make something bigger, in which a paste-like feed is broken up and dried at the same time.
- 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).
- flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
- flux density — the magnetic, radiant, or electric flux per unit of cross-sectional area.
- flying squad — a trained, mobile group of police officers, business executives, labor officials, or the like, capable of performing specialized tasks whenever or wherever sent, often for use in emergencies.
- folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
- 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.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- foredestined — Simple past tense and past participle of foredestine.
- fort madison — a city in SE Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- fourdriniers — Plural form of fourdrinier.
- freestanding — (of sculpture or architectural elements) unattached to a supporting unit or background; standing alone.
- friendliness — characteristic of or befitting a friend; showing friendship: a friendly greeting.
- frondiferous — Producing fronds.
- fund-raising — the act or process of raising funds, as for nonprofit organizations or for a political cause.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
- 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
- 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.
- make friends — get to know people
- manifoldness — (mathematics) multiplicity.
- misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
- 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.