12-letter words containing f, e, l, o, d
- front loader — a washing machine with a door at the front which opens one side of the drum into which washing is placed
- front-loaded — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
- front-loader — a machine or appliance, as a washing machine, loaded and unloaded through an opening in the front (as distinguished from a top loader).
- full powered — (of a vessel) relying on engines for propulsion without assistance from sails.
- full-blooded — of unmixed ancestry; thoroughbred: a full-blooded Cherokee.
- full-mouthed — (of cattle, sheep, etc.) having a complete set of teeth.
- fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
- funnel cloud — a rapidly rotating funnel-shaped cloud extending downward from the base of a cumulonimbus cloud, which, if it touches the surface of the earth, is a tornado or waterspout.
- furazolidone — a nitrofuran, C 8 H 7 N 3 O 5 , that is used in the treatment of giardiasis, and bacterial gastroenteritis and dysentery.
- get ahold of — to get in touch with
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- gradeflation — grade inflation.
- guide fossil — index fossil.
- gulf of aden — a waterway in the Arabian sea between Yemen and Somalia and connecting with the Red Sea
- half a dozen — six
- half-blooded — having parents of two different breeds, species, or the like.
- half-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- half-drowned — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- hexafluoride — a fluoride containing six atoms of fluorine.
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrosulfide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- ill-informed — lacking adequate or proper knowledge or information, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects: The public is ill-informed of the danger.
- index fossil — a widely distributed fossil, of narrow range in time, regarded as characteristic of a given geological formation, used especially in determining the age of related formations.
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- isle of dogs — a district in the East End of London, bounded on three sides by the River Thames, and a focus of major office development (Canary Wharf) in recent years
- lend oneself — to give support, cooperation, etc
- leopard frog — a common North American green frog, Rana pipiens, having white-edged, dark oval spots on its back.
- light-footed — stepping lightly or nimbly; light of foot; nimble.
- looked-after — (of children) brought up by the state in institutions because their parents are dead or not able to care for them properly
- loose-footed — (of a fore-and-aft sail) not having the foot bent to a boom.
- manifoldness — (mathematics) multiplicity.
- monofluoride — (chemistry) any fluoride containing a single fluorine atom in each molecule.
- neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
- neoflavonoid — (organic chemistry) Any compound, isomeric with the flavonoids, derived from 4-phenyl-1,2-benzopyrone.
- newfoundland — a large island in E Canada. 42,734 sq. mi. (110,680 sq. km).
- nonqualified — unqualified (def 1).
- off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
- officeholder — a person filling a governmental position; public official.
- officialized — Simple past tense and past participle of officialize.
- old favorite — If you refer to something as an old favorite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
- oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.
- outside-left — a footballer who plays on the outside left wing of the field
- overflow pdl — (jargon) The place where you put things when your pdl is full. If you don't have one and too many things get pushed, you forget something. The overflow pdl for a person's memory might be a memo pad. This usage inspired the following doggerel:
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
- poodle-faker — a young man or newly commissioned officer who makes a point of socializing with women; ladies' man
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid