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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
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