12-letter words containing f, a, r, d
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- 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.
- profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
- proofreading — correction of text
- push forward — keep advancing
- quarry-faced — rock-faced.
- 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.
- 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
- reclassified — to classify anew.
- red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- refoundation — an act of refounding
- refrigerated — made frozen or cold, esp for preservative purposes; chilled or frozen
- richard korf — (person) A Professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Richard Korf received his B.S. from MIT in 1977, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1980 and 1983. From 1983 to 1985 he served as Herbert M. Singer Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Dr. Korf studies problem-solving, heuristic search and planning in artificial intelligence. He wrote "Learning to Solve Problems by Searching for Macro-Operators" (Pitman, 1985). He serves on the editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence, and the Journal of Applied Intelligence. Dr. Korf is the recipient of several awards and is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
- road surface — the surface of the road, often asphalt
- road traffic — traffic on the road
- rubber-faced — having a face with unusually mobile features: a rubber-faced comedian.
- san fernando — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
- scabbardfish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
- scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
- scared stiff — terrified
- self-assured — self-confident.
- 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-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.
- 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.
- sir sandford — Mount, a mountain in SE British Columbia, Canada, in the Selkirk Mountains. 11,590 feet (3533 meters).
- snake feeder — a dragonfly.
- sniff around — dog: try to pick up scent
- soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- square-faced — having a front shaped so as to be square or rectangular
- 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
- sulfarsenide — any compound containing an arsenide and a sulfide.
- surface road — a road or street level with its surroundings: surface roads and elevated highways.
- surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- 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
- thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
- tracker fund — finance: type of savings account
- tractor feed — Computers. a mechanism for aligning and transporting paper for a printer by means of pins that catch in perforations along the edges of the paper.
- traffic duty — an assignment to help the flow of traffic and enforce traffic regulations
- turf dancing — a fluid style of street-dancing originating in the Bay Area of San Francisco, California