11-letter words containing f, d
- faultfinder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- fauxbourdon — Music. a 15th-century compositional technique employing three voices, the upper and lower voices progressing an octave or a sixth apart while the middle voice extemporaneously doubles the upper part at a fourth below.
- favellidium — (in certain red algae) a cystocarp wholly or partly immersed in a frond.
- feather bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- feather-bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- featherbeds — Plural form of featherbed.
- featheredge — an edge that thins out like a feather.
- featherhead — featherbrain.
- fecundating — Present participle of fecundate.
- fecundation — to make prolific or fruitful.
- federalists — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
- federalized — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
- federalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of federalize.
- federations — Plural form of federation.
- feed grains — grains used to feed livestock
- feeder line — a branch of a main transportation line, as of an airline or railroad.
- feeder road — a secondary road used to bring traffic to a major road.
- feedforward — The modification or control of a process using its anticipated results or effects.
- feeding cup — spout cup.
- feedthrough — a connector used to pass a conductor through a circuit board or enclosure.
- feignedness — the quality of or extent to which something is feigned
- feldspathic — of, relating to, or containing feldspar.
- felicitated — Simple past tense and past participle of felicitate.
- fellermelad — (jocular, UK, Ireland, usually with
- femtosecond — One quadrillionth of a second.
- fender pile — a pile, usually one of a group, set beside ferry slips, wharves, etc., to guide approaching vessels and driven so as to yield slightly when struck in order to lessen the shock of contact.
- fenestrated — having windows; windowed; characterized by windows.
- feral child — a neglected child who engages in lawless or anti-social behaviour
- ferdinand i — Spanish Fernando I. ("Ferdinand the Great") died 1065, king of Castile 1033–65, king of Navarre and Leon 1037–65; emperor of Spain 1056–65.
- ferdinand v — Ferdinand II (def 1).
- fernando po — a former name of Bioko.
- ferredoxins — Plural form of ferredoxin.
- feu de joie — a salute of musketry fired successively by each man in turn along a line and back
- feudalistic — the feudal system, or its principles and practices.
- feudalities — Plural form of feudality.
- feudatories — Plural form of feudatory.
- fibrillated — to cause to undergo fibrillation.
- fiddle away — to waste (time)
- fiddle back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
- fiddle-back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
- fiddleheads — Plural form of fiddlehead.
- fiddlerfish — any of several guitarfishes, especially Trygonorhina fasciata, of Australia.
- fiddlestick — anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say.
- fidgetiness — The state or condition of being fidgety.
- fiduciaries — Plural form of fiduciary.
- fiduciarily — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- field drain — an underground earthenware pipe used for draining fields
- field event — an event in a track meet that involves throwing something, as a discus or javelin, or jumping and is not performed on the running track.
- field glass — Usually, field glasses. binoculars for use out of doors.
- field grade — military rank applying to mid-level army officers, as majors, lieutenant colonels, and colonels.