12-letter words containing f, e, d
- brickfielder — a hot wind in parts of Australia, originally applied to a wind which blew over Sydney carrying dust from the neighbouring Brickfields sand hills
- bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
- broken-field — of or having to do with running in which the ball carrier zigzags so as to go past defenders and avoid being tackled by them
- busted flush — a poker hand with four cards of the same suit that fails to form a flush when the final card is dealt
- campodeiform — resembling insects of the genus Campodea
- candlefishes — Plural form of candlefish.
- cape-froward — Cape, a cape in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: southernmost point of mainland South America.
- cash deficit — the excess of cash disbursements over cash receipts in any given fiscal period
- cattleduffer — a cattle thief.
- center field — the middle area of the outfield
- certificated — A certificated person has been awarded a certificate to prove that they have achieved a certain level or standard.
- chef's salad — A chef's salad is a green salad with hard-boiled egg and strips of meat and cheese on top.
- chesterfield — a man's knee-length overcoat, usually with a fly front to conceal the buttons and having a velvet collar
- chicken feed — If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chicken feed.
- childproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of childproof.
- chipped beef — dried or smoked beef sliced into shavings, often served in a cream sauce
- chloroformed — Simple past tense and past participle of chloroform.
- ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
- circumflexed — (linguistics, of a written word) exhibiting circumflex accent.
- clipped form — a shortened form of a word, as for example doc for doctor
- close-fisted — very careful with money; mean
- close-reefed — having most or all of the sail reefs taken in.
- cloud forest — a forest, usually near coastal mountain peaks in tropical regions, that has an almost constant cloud cover, even during the dry season
- clovenfooted — having split hoofs, once assumed to represent the halves of a single undivided hoof, as in cattle.
- codefendants — Plural form of codefendant.
- come forward — If someone comes forward, they offer to do something or to give some information in response to a request for help.
- complexified — Simple past tense and past participle of complexify.
- confabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of confabulate.
- confederated — Simple past tense and past participle of confederate.
- confederates — Plural form of confederate.
- confidential — Information that is confidential is meant to be kept secret or private.
- configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
- conflagrated — Simple past tense and past participle of conflagrate.
- confoundedly — bewildered; confused; perplexed.
- confoundment — The state of being confounded.
- confusedness — The state or quality of being confused.
- cracker feed — Cracker feed is the raw materials used in different cracking processes.
- creep feeder — a pen so constructed as to exclude larger animals while permitting young animals to enter and obtain feed.
- cut-off date — the last date on which it is possible to do something
- cyberfriends — Plural form of cyberfriend.
- dairy farmer — a farmer who has a herd producing milk
- dame fortune — the personification of fortune as a woman
- damselfishes — Plural form of damselfish.
- dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
- de profundis — out of the depths of misery or dejection
- de-intensify — to make intense or more intense.
- dead fingers — a disease of users of pneumatic drills, characterized by anaesthesia of the fingertips and cyanosis
- dead freight — an amount owed by a contractor who charters space in a ship but fails to occupy it fully.
- deafferented — Simple past tense and past participle of deafferent.
- decaffeinate — to remove all or part of the caffeine from (coffee, tea, etc)