12-letter words containing f, e, d
- 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
- 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 powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
- 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 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 damage — damage to property caused by floodwater
- floodlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of floodlight.
- floor leader — the majority leader or minority leader in either the Senate or the House of Representatives.
- floor trader — a member of a stock or commodity exchange who executes orders on the floor of the exchange for his or her own account.
- floppy drive — disk drive
- florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
- flower child — (especially in the 1960s) a young person, especially a hippie, rejecting conventional society and advocating love, peace, and simple, idealistic values.
- fluid assets — assets that are in the form of cash or easily convertible into cash
- fluidextract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
- flummadiddle — A baked main course pudding consisting of stale bread, pork fat, molasses, and spices including cinnamon and allspice. It was a part of early American cuisine, especially in New England.
- fluoroscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoroscope.
- flush-decked — having a weather deck flush with the hull.
- flutterboard — a kickboard.
- flux density — the magnetic, radiant, or electric flux per unit of cross-sectional area.
- flying field — a small landing field with short runways and facilities for servicing airplanes on a lesser scale than an airport.
- flying wedge — a fast-moving group of law-enforcement officers in a compact, wedge-shaped formation that can infiltrate crowds or protect someone effectively.
- foamed metal — a uniform foamlike metal structure produced when hydrogen bubbles are evolved from metal hydrides uniformly dispersed throughout a host metal or metal alloy: used as a structural material because of its shock-absorbing properties and light weight.
- foefie slide — a rope, fixed at an incline, along which a person suspended on a pulley may traverse a space, esp across a river