12-letter words containing f, e, l, s, i, d
- flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
- florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
- fluid assets — assets that are in the form of cash or easily convertible into cash
- flux density — the magnetic, radiant, or electric flux per unit of cross-sectional area.
- 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 seat — a seat that can be folded down
- foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
- foot soldier — an infantryman.
- footsoldiers — Plural form of footsoldier.
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- friendliness — characteristic of or befitting a friend; showing friendship: a friendly greeting.
- fused silica — glass made entirely from silica, having a very low rate of thermal expansion.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- guide fossil — index fossil.
- huddersfield — a town in West Yorkshire, in N central England.
- hydrosulfide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- in spadefuls — in an extreme or emphatic way
- indefeasible — not defeasible; not to be annulled or made void; not forfeitable.
- indefeasibly — In an indefeasible manner.
- indefensible — not justifiable; inexcusable: indefensible behavior.
- indefensibly — In an indefensible manner.
- indefinables — Plural form of indefinable.
- 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.
- infidelities — marital disloyalty; adultery.
- inflamedness — The state or quality of being inflamed.
- 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
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- macclesfield — a market town in NW England, in Cheshire: former centre of the silk industry; pharmaceuticals, services. Pop: 50 688 (2001)
- manifoldness — (mathematics) multiplicity.
- needlefishes — Plural form of needlefish.
- neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
- nun's fiddle — trumpet marine.
- off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
- oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.
- outside-left — a footballer who plays on the outside left wing of the field
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- pridefulness — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- quasi-feudal — of, relating to, or of the nature of a fief or fee: a feudal estate.
- reclassified — to classify anew.
- sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
- scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
- sedge family — the plant family Cyperaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, often found in wet areas, having solid stems, narrow, grasslike leaves with closed sheaths, spikes of very small flowers set in a scalelike bract, and a dry, flattened, convex fruit, and including the bulrush, chufa, cotton grass, papyrus, and umbrella plant.
- self-blinded — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
- self-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
- self-dealing — financial transaction conducted on a personal, nonbusinesslike basis, as lending or borrowing of corporate money by a director.
- self-defined — to state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.): They disagreed on how to define “liberal.”.
- self-denying — the sacrifice of one's own desires; unselfishness.
- self-devised — to contrive, plan, or elaborate; invent from existing principles or ideas: to devise a method.
- self-disdain — to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn.