12-letter words containing f, d
- fiendishness — The quality of being fiendish.
- fifth-grader — a student in the fifth grade of the American education system
- fifty-second — next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
- fig marigold — any of various plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, having showy flowers of white, yellow, or pink.
- figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- final demand — the last in a series of requests for payment of money owed, which usually contains a threat of legal action if the demand is ignored
- find oneself — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
- finder's fee — a fee paid to a finder or agent who initiates a business transaction, usually a percentage of the money earned.
- fine-grained — being of fine grain or texture, as certain types of wood, leather, etc.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- fire brigade — a group of firefighters, especially as formed temporarily or called upon to assist a fire department in an emergency.
- fire hydrant — a hydrant for use in extinguishing fires.
- fire-damaged — damaged by fire or in a fire
- firing order — the sequence of ignition in the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine
- firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
- first degree — People who have gained a higher qualification after completing a basic university degree such as a BA or a BSc refer to that basic degree as their first degree.
- first reader — the elected official of a church or society who conducts the services and meetings and reads from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and the Scriptures.
- first-degree — of or relating to the lowest or first in a series.
- first-grader — a child in the first grade
- fish-bellied — (of a beam or rail) having a convex underside.
- fitted sheet — a sheet with ends that are elasticated and shaped to fit tightly over a mattress
- five hundred — a variety of euchre in which a joker and widow are included, the object being to score 500 points first.
- five-and-ten — Also called five-and-ten-cent store [fahyv-uh n-ten-sent] /ˈfaɪv ənˈtɛnˌsɛnt/ (Show IPA), five-and-dime [fahyv-uh n-dahym] /ˈfaɪv ənˈdaɪm/ (Show IPA), dime store, ten-cent store. a store offering a wide assortment of inexpensive items, formerly costing five or ten cents, for personal and household use.
- fixed assets — any long-term asset, as a building, tract of land, or patent.
- fixed bridge — a partial denture that is secured permanently in the mouth by being cemented to the adjacent teeth or roots.
- fixed charge — an expense that cannot be modified.
- fixed system — a system of solmization which assigns the names ut (or do), re, mi, fa, sol, la, si (or ti) to the degrees of the major scale of C
- fixed-income — gaining or yielding a more or less uniform rate of income.
- fixed-length — referring to a field, record, computer word, or other entity whose length does not vary.
- flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
- flameproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of flameproof.
- flannelboard — a flannel-covered surface to which other flannel pieces, as letters of the alphabet, numbers, etc., adhere merely by contact, used mainly in schools as a visual aid.
- flash drying — Flash drying is a stage in a process to make something bigger, in which a paste-like feed is broken up and dried at the same time.
- flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
- flashforward — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
- flat-chested — If you describe a woman as flat-chested, you mean that she has small breasts.
- flat-grained — (of sawed lumber) having the annual rings at an angle of less than 45° with the broader surfaces.
- fleece-lined — lined with fleece
- fleet-footed — able to run fast.
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- fleur-de-lis — a heraldic device somewhat resembling three petals or floral segments of an iris tied by an encircling band.
- fleur-de-lys — fleur-de-lis (defs 1, 2).
- flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
- flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
- flip-flopped — shod in flip-flops; wearing flip-flops
- float around — A rumour or idea that is floating around is often heard or talked about.
- float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
- flood basalt — a very extensive lava flow of basaltic composition that has issued from a fissure, often to be found as part of a series of such flows one on top of another, forming a plateau
- flood damage — damage to property caused by floodwater