12-letter words containing f, d, l, i
- delightfully — giving great pleasure or delight; highly pleasing: a delightful surprise.
- demulsifying — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- desulfurized — Simple past tense and past participle of desulfurize.
- differential — of or relating to difference or diversity.
- difficulties — the fact or condition of being difficult.
- diffrangible — capable of being diffracted
- difunctional — Bifunctional.
- dip the flag — to salute by lowering a flag briefly
- disaffiliate — to sever affiliation with; disassociate: He disaffiliated himself from the political group he had once led.
- disdainfully — full of or showing disdain; scornful.
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- disgustfully — in a disgustful manner
- disinflation — a period or process of slowing the rate of inflation.
- disqualified — Simple past tense and past participle of disqualify.
- disqualifier — One who, or that which, disqualifies.
- disqualifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disqualify.
- disregardful — neglectful; careless.
- dissyllabify — to make disyllabic
- distastefull — Archaic form of distasteful.
- doloriferous — causing pain or sadness, dolorific
- dorsiflexion — flexion toward the back.
- double drift — a method of calculating wind direction and velocity by observing the direction of drift of an aircraft on two or more headings.
- double first — a first in two subjects.
- draft animal — an animal used for pulling heavy loads.
- dysfluencies — disfluency.
- eco-friendly — environmentally safe
- facial index — Craniometry. the ratio of the breadth of a face to its height.
- failed state — a nation in which the government has lost political authority and control and is unable to fulfill the basic responsibilities of a sovereign state.
- fairchild f8 — (processor) An 8-bit microprocessor. The processor itself had no address bus - program and data memory access were contained in separate units, which reduced the number of pins and the associated cost. It also featured 64 registers, accessed by the ISAR register in cells (register windows) of eight, which meant external RAM wasn't always needed for small applications. In addition, the 2-chip processor didn't need support chips, unlike others which needed seven or more. The F8 inspired other similar CPUs, such as the Intel 8048. The use of the ISAR register allowed a subroutine to be entered without saving a bunch of registers, speeding execution - the ISAR would just be changed. Special purpose registers were stored in the second cell (regs 9-15), and the first eight registers were accessed directly. The windowing concept was useful, but only the register pointed to by the ISAR could be accessed - to access other registers the ISAR was incremented or decremented through the window.
- falling band — a large, flat collar, usually trimmed with lace, worn by men in the 17th century.
- falling door — flap door (def 1).
- false friend — a word or expression in one language that, because it resembles one in another language, is often wrongly taken to have the same meaning, for example, the French agenda which means diary, not agenda
- false indigo — any of several North American shrubs belonging to the genus Amorpha, of the legume family, especially A. fruticosa, having compound leaves with pinnate leaflets and long, dense clusters of purplish flowers.
- false mildew — downy mildew (def 1).
- false-mildew — Also called false mildew. any fungus of the family Peronosporaceae, causing many plant diseases and producing a white, downy mass of conidiophores, usually on the under surface of the leaves of the host plant.
- familiarised — Simple past tense and past participle of familiarise.
- familiarized — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
- farthingdale — (British, dated, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.
- farthingland — a unit of land area, sometimes described as being equivalent to thirty acres
- fasciculated — Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
- fascinatedly — In a fascinated manner; with fascination.
- fastidiously — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- fault-finder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- faultfinding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
- federalistic — an advocate of federalism.
- federalizing — Present participle of federalize.
- federatively — from a federative point of view
- feebleminded — lacking the normal mental powers.
- feldspathoid — Also, feldspathoidal. of or relating to a group of minerals similar in chemical composition to certain feldspars except for a lower silica content.