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12-letter words containing e, l, d, r, f

  • mud filtrate — Mud filtrate is the liquid part of the mud which can pass through a medium and become separated from the mudcake.
  • off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
  • officeholder — a person filling a governmental position; public official.
  • 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.
  • overflow pdl — (jargon)   The place where you put things when your pdl is full. If you don't have one and too many things get pushed, you forget something. The overflow pdl for a person's memory might be a memo pad. This usage inspired the following doggerel:
  • perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
  • 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.
  • poodle-faker — a young man or newly commissioned officer who makes a point of socializing with women; ladies' man
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • pressed felt — Pressed felt is a material made from compressed fibers and used as a filter.
  • 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.
  • profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
  • radical left — the faction representing extreme left-wing political views, often Marxist or Maoist in ideology.
  • reclassified — to classify anew.
  • scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
  • second floor — the floor or story above the ground floor.
  • self-assured — self-confident.
  • self-centred — concerned solely or chiefly with one's own interests, welfare, etc.; engrossed in self; selfish; egotistical.
  • self-colored — of one color.
  • 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-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-driving — (of a machine) operating without the guidance of a human.
  • self-honored — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
  • self-powered — (of a machine, vehicle, etc.) having a specified fuel or prime mover: a gasoline-powered engine; an engine-powered pump.
  • self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
  • 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.
  • serous fluid — any of various clear, watery fluids in the body.
  • several-fold — comprising several parts or members.
  • shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
  • solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
  • sulfarsenide — any compound containing an arsenide and a sulfide.
  • the red flag — a socialist song, written by James Connell (1852–1929), Irish political activist, in 1889
  • thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
  • tin-fluoride — stannous fluoride.
  • ultrarefined — having been refined exceptionally well or thoroughly
  • unaffordable — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
  • uncalled for — not called for; not required; superfluous; unwanted.
  • uncalled-for — not called for; not required; superfluous; unwanted.
  • unfertilized — Biology. to render (the female gamete) capable of development by uniting it with the male gamete. to fecundate or impregnate (an animal or plant).
  • unformalized — not formalized
  • unformidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
  • unformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • unfriendlily — in an unfriendly manner
  • unlooked-for — not expected, anticipated, or foreseen: They were confronted with an unlooked-for situation.
  • unrefundable — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
  • vector field — a region, domain, set, etc., with a vector assigned at each point; vector function.
  • welfare fund — a fund set up by a union or employer, providing benefits to workers during a period of unemployment or disablement, as salary continuance while ill.
  • well-favored — of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.
  • wethersfield — a town in central Connecticut.
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