11-letter words containing f, a, l, d
- freeloaders — Plural form of freeloader.
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- frontloaded — Simple past tense and past participle of frontload.
- fruit salad — a cold dish consisting of various types of small or cut-up fruit, usually served as a dessert or first course.
- fundamental — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- funeralized — to hold or officiate at a funeral service for.
- furaldehyde — either of two aldehydes derived from furan, esp 2-furaldehyde
- garden flat — a flat with direct access to a garden: typically, a garden flat consists of basement accommodation in prewar property, but some are in purpose-built blocks in urban areas
- girl friday — gal Friday.
- gladfulness — The quality of being gladful.
- glass-faced — having the front or outer surfaces covered with glass.
- golden calf — a golden idol set up by Aaron and worshiped by the Israelites. Ex. 32.
- grand falls — former name of Churchill Falls.
- grand final — the final game of the season in any of various sports, esp football
- grandiflora — any of several plant varieties or hybrids characterized by large showy flowers, as certain kinds of petunias, baby's breath, or roses.
- haddonfield — a town in SW New Jersey.
- half cocked — to set the hammer of (a firearm) at half cock.
- half dollar — a silver or cupronickel coin of the U.S., equal to 50 cents.
- half-boiled — drunk.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-closed — having or forming a boundary or barrier: He was blocked by a closed door. The house had a closed porch.
- half-cocked — (of a firearm) at the position of half cock.
- half-cooked — not cooked thoroughly
- half-decade — a period of ten years: the three decades from 1776 to 1806.
- half-dollar — a silver or cupronickel coin of the U.S., equal to 50 cents.
- half-duplex — of or relating to the transmission of information in opposite directions but not simultaneously.
- half-filled — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- half-formed — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
- half-hidden — concealed; obscure; covert: hidden meaning; hidden hostility.
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- half-witted — feeble-minded.
- halfendeale — a half portion of something
- halfhearted — having or showing little enthusiasm: a halfhearted attempt to work.
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- health food — any natural food popularly believed to promote or sustain good health, as by containing vital nutrients, being grown without the use of pesticides, or having a low sodium or fat content.
- hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
- idaho falls — a city in E Idaho.
- idler shaft — a shaft carrying one or more gearwheels that idles between a driver shaft and a driven shaft, usually to reverse the direction of rotation or provide different spacing of gearwheels, esp in a gearbox
- ill-favored — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- indefinable — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- indefinably — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- indian file — in single file.
- indian wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus pallipes, of Asia south of the Himalayas.
- infibulated — Simple past tense and past participle of infibulate.
- infiltrated — Simple past tense and past participle of infiltrate.
- inflammated — (nonstandard) Inflamed.
- infundibula — Plural form of infundibulum.
- insufflated — Simple past tense and past participle of insufflate.