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12-letter words containing d, r, a, f, t

  • gift-wrapped — A gift-wrapped present is wrapped in pretty paper.
  • gradeflation — grade inflation.
  • graft hybrid — a hybrid plant that is produced by grafting and that exhibits characters of both the stock and the scion.
  • grandfathers — Plural form of grandfather.
  • gravity feed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
  • ground fault — the momentary, usually accidental, grounding of a conducting wire.
  • ground staff — The people who are paid to maintain a sports ground are called the ground staff.
  • half-hearted — having or showing little enthusiasm: a halfhearted attempt to work.
  • half-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
  • hand of writ — handwriting; penmanship.
  • handcrafting — Present participle of handcraft.
  • handcraftman — handicraftsman.
  • handicrafter — One who engages in handicrafts.
  • head for sth — If you a have a head for something, you can deal with it easily. For example, if you have a head for figures, you can do arithmetic easily, and if you have a head for heights, you can climb to a great height without feeling afraid.
  • headforemost — headfirst (def 1).
  • hydatidiform — like or resembling a hydatid
  • hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
  • imperforated — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
  • infraduction — (medicine) The turning downward of a part, especially of the eye.
  • leaf mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
  • 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.
  • looked-after — (of children) brought up by the state in institutions because their parents are dead or not able to care for them properly
  • manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • 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.
  • natural food — Natural food is food which has not been processed much and has not had artificial ingredients added to it.
  • nonfederated — not federated
  • 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
  • platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
  • preformatted — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
  • 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.
  • rat-infested — (of a place or vessel) that has many rats
  • red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
  • refoundation — an act of refounding
  • refrigerated — made frozen or cold, esp for preservative purposes; chilled or frozen
  • road traffic — traffic on the road
  • scared stiff — terrified
  • self-created — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
  • self-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
  • self-treated — to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
  • soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
  • stand in for — to substitute for
  • stand up for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
  • subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
  • tax-deferred — noting or providing income that is not taxed until a later time.
  • the red flag — a socialist song, written by James Connell (1852–1929), Irish political activist, in 1889
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