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12-letter words containing f, e, s, d

  • fascinatedly — In a fascinated manner; with fascination.
  • father's day — a day, usually the third Sunday in June, set aside in honor of fathers.
  • favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
  • featherheads — Plural form of featherhead.
  • federal case — a matter that falls within the jurisdiction of a federal court or a federal law-enforcement agency.
  • federalistic — an advocate of federalism.
  • feldspathoid — Also, feldspathoidal. of or relating to a group of minerals similar in chemical composition to certain feldspars except for a lower silica content.
  • feldspathose — (mineralogy) Containing feldspar.
  • fellowshiped — Simple past tense and past participle of fellowship.
  • fennoscandia — region in N Europe, including Scandinavia, Finland, and the part of NW Russia west of the White Sea
  • fiddlesticks — anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say.
  • 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 circus — A derogatory pun on "field service". The field service organisation of any hardware manufacturer, but especially DEC. There is an entire genre of jokes about DEC field circus engineers: Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer with a flat tire? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer who is out of gas? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. See Easter egging for additional insight on these jokes. There is also the "Field Circus Cheer" (from the plan file for DEC on MIT-AI): Maynard! Maynard! Don't mess with us! We're mean and we're tough! If you get us confused We'll screw up your stuff. (DEC's service HQ is located in Maynard, Massachusetts).
  • field sports — sports carried on in the open countryside, such as hunting, shooting, or fishing
  • fiendishness — The quality of being fiendish.
  • fifty-second — next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
  • figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
  • filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
  • find oneself — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
  • finder's fee — a fee paid to a finder or agent who initiates a business transaction, usually a percentage of the money earned.
  • fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
  • 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
  • fixed assets — any long-term asset, as a building, tract of land, or patent.
  • 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
  • flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • fluoroscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoroscope.
  • flush-decked — having a weather deck flush with the hull.
  • 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
  • food science — the study of the nature of foods and the changes that occur in them naturally and as a result of handling and processing.
  • food service — the preparation, delivery, serving, etc., of ready-to-eat foods: The cafeteria employs over 20 people in food service.
  • foodlessness — Absence of food.
  • foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
  • foot soldier — an infantryman.
  • footsoldiers — Plural form of footsoldier.
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