12-letter words containing f, a, i, r, d, n
- flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
- fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
- fluoridation — the addition of fluorides to the public water supply to reduce the incidence of tooth decay.
- footdragging — the act or practice of acting with deliberate slowness
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- foreordained — to ordain or appoint beforehand.
- foreordinate — foreordain.
- forked chain — branched chain.
- fort madison — a city in SE Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- forward line — the soldiers at the forward most position in an army force
- foundationer — a person supported by funds from a foundation, or serving as a member of a foundation
- four-in-hand — a long necktie to be tied in a slipknot with the ends left hanging.
- fractionated — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionate.
- fragmentized — fragmented.
- franked mail — official mail sent by members of Congress, the vice president, and other authorized officials. Compare frank1 (defs 6–9).
- freestanding — (of sculpture or architectural elements) unattached to a supporting unit or background; standing alone.
- french drain — a drainage trench filled to ground level with fragments of brick, rock, etc.
- french india — the five small former French territories in India, including Chandernagor, Karikal, Pondicherry, and Yanaon on the E coast, and Mahé on the W coast.
- fund-raising — the act or process of raising funds, as for nonprofit organizations or for a political cause.
- furazolidone — a nitrofuran, C 8 H 7 N 3 O 5 , that is used in the treatment of giardiasis, and bacterial gastroenteritis and dysentery.
- garand rifle — M-1.
- gay-friendly — welcoming to gay people
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- gold farming — the practice of selling virtual assets gained in a computer game for real money
- gradeflation — grade inflation.
- grand finale — the concluding portion of a performance or entertainment, as a musical show, rodeo, etc., usually spectacular and involving most or all of the prior participants.
- hand of writ — handwriting; penmanship.
- handcrafting — Present participle of handcraft.
- handicrafter — One who engages in handicrafts.
- handkerchief — a small piece of linen, silk, or other fabric, usually square, and used especially for wiping one's nose, eyes, face, etc., or for decorative purposes.
- hard feeling — resentment; ill will
- in danger of — liable to
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- infraduction — (medicine) The turning downward of a part, especially of the eye.
- infrakingdom — (taxonomy) A taxonomic category sometimes inserted below subkingdom.
- infundibular — a funnel-shaped organ or part.
- 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.
- life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
- make friends — get to know people
- midafternoon — the part of the afternoon centering approximately on three o'clock; the period approximately halfway between noon and sunset.
- neo-freudian — of or relating to a group of psychoanalytic thinkers whose modifications of Freudian analytic theory place increased emphasis on ego functions and interpersonal relationships.
- off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
- overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
- proofreading — correction of text
- radiant flux — the time rate of flow of radiant energy.
- range finder — any of various instruments for determining the distance from the observer to a particular object, as for sighting a gun or adjusting the focus of a camera.
- rangefinding — the act or process of determining the distance of an object from the observer
- rat-infested — (of a place or vessel) that has many rats
- red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
- refoundation — an act of refounding