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12-letter words containing f, e, l, o, d

  • feldspathose — (mineralogy) Containing feldspar.
  • fellowshiped — Simple past tense and past participle of fellowship.
  • ferrofluidic — Of or pertaining to a ferrofluid.
  • fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
  • field cornet — a commander of burgher troops called up in time of war or in an emergency, esp during the 19th century
  • field hockey — a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.
  • field ration — ration issued and authorized for troops in the field.
  • field sports — sports carried on in the open countryside, such as hunting, shooting, or fishing
  • field theory — a detailed mathematical description of the distribution and movement of matter under the influence of one or more fields.
  • field-holler — a cry employing falsetto, portamento, and sudden changes of pitch, used in African-American work songs, later integrated into the techniques of the blues
  • find oneself — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
  • 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.
  • fluoroscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoroscope.
  • flutterboard — a kickboard.
  • 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
  • folding rule — a rule composed of light strips of wood joined by rivets so as to be foldable, all the opening and closing parts being in parallel planes.
  • folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
  • folie a deux — the sharing of delusional ideas by two people who are closely associated.
  • food allergy — an allergy to a specific type of food
  • food vacuole — a membrane-enclosed cell vacuole with a digestive function, containing material taken up in by the process of phagocytosis.
  • foodlessness — Absence of food.
  • foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
  • foot soldier — an infantryman.
  • footsoldiers — Plural form of footsoldier.
  • forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
  • forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
  • forehandedly — Prudently, with thrift and foresight.
  • formal dress — clothing for elegant or solemn occasions
  • formaldehyde — a colorless, toxic, potentially carcinogenic, water-soluble gas, CH 2 O, having a suffocating odor, usually derived from methyl alcohol by oxidation: used chiefly in aqueous solution, as a disinfectant and preservative, and in the manufacture of various resins and plastics.
  • formularized — Simple past tense and past participle of formularize.
  • forward line — the soldiers at the forward most position in an army force
  • forward sale — the sale of something that is to be delivered and paid for at a later date
  • foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
  • foul-mouthed — using obscene, profane, or scurrilous language; given to filthy or abusive speech.
  • fourfoldness — the quality of consisting of four parts
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