12-letter words containing f, e, r, t, d
- duty officer — In the police or armed forces, a duty officer is an officer who is on duty at a particular time.
- dwarf planet — a spherical celestial body revolving about the sun, similar to a planet but not large enough to gravitationally clear its orbital region of most or all other celestial bodies. Pluto is a dwarf planet.
- dye transfer — a photographic printing method by which a full-color image is produced by the printing of separate cyan, magenta, and yellow images from individual gelatin relief matrices.
- end effector — The end effector of an actuator is the part that comes into contact with the object being moved or controlled.
- face-centred — (of a crystal) having a lattice point at the centre of each face of each unit cell as well as at the corners
- fainthearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
- faits divers — brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational, lurid, etc.
- falsehearted — Alternative spelling of false-hearted.
- farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
- farthingdale — (British, dated, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.
- father's day — a day, usually the third Sunday in June, set aside in honor of fathers.
- fault-finder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- featherheads — Plural form of featherhead.
- federalistic — an advocate of federalism.
- federatively — from a federative point of view
- 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 centre — a research centre equipped for field studies, usually located in or near an area of scientific interest
- field cornet — a commander of burgher troops called up in time of war or in an emergency, esp during the 19th century
- 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.
- fifth-grader — a student in the fifth grade of the American education system
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- fire hydrant — a hydrant for use in extinguishing fires.
- 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
- flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
- flat-grained — (of sawed lumber) having the annual rings at an angle of less than 45° with the broader surfaces.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- flutterboard — a kickboard.
- food counter — a counter in a shop, bar, cafeteria, etc where food is sold or served
- foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
- foot soldier — an infantryman.
- footsoldiers — Plural form of footsoldier.
- forced entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
- forced-draft — using a flow of air or air forced through a pipe or system of pipes by fans or blowers: a forced-draft central heating system.
- fore and aft — situated at or toward the front, as compared with something else.
- fore-and-aft — located along or parallel to a line from the stem to the stern.
- forebodement — The act of foreboding.
- foredestined — Simple past tense and past participle of foredestine.
- foregathered — Simple past tense and past participle of foregather.
- foreordinate — foreordain.
- fort detrick — a military reservation in N Maryland, NW of Frederick.
- fortified pa — a Māori hilltop dwelling with trenches and palisades for defensive occupation
- forty-second — next after the forty-first; being the ordinal number for 42.
- forward rate — the agreed price for something that is to be bought or sold at a later date