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

  • fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
  • fire brigade — a group of firefighters, especially as formed temporarily or called upon to assist a fire department in an emergency.
  • fire hydrant — a hydrant for use in extinguishing fires.
  • fire-damaged — damaged by fire or in a fire
  • firing order — the sequence of ignition in the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine
  • 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
  • five hundred — a variety of euchre in which a joker and widow are included, the object being to score 500 points first.
  • five-and-ten — Also called five-and-ten-cent store [fahyv-uh n-ten-sent] /ˈfaɪv ənˈtɛnˌsɛnt/ (Show IPA), five-and-dime [fahyv-uh n-dahym] /ˈfaɪv ənˈdaɪm/ (Show IPA), dime store, ten-cent store. a store offering a wide assortment of inexpensive items, formerly costing five or ten cents, for personal and household use.
  • fixed assets — any long-term asset, as a building, tract of land, or patent.
  • fixed bridge — a partial denture that is secured permanently in the mouth by being cemented to the adjacent teeth or roots.
  • fixed charge — an expense that cannot be modified.
  • 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
  • fixed-income — gaining or yielding a more or less uniform rate of income.
  • fixed-length — referring to a field, record, computer word, or other entity whose length does not vary.
  • flat-grained — (of sawed lumber) having the annual rings at an angle of less than 45° with the broader surfaces.
  • fleece-lined — lined with fleece
  • 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.
  • flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
  • flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
  • 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.
  • floodlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of floodlight.
  • 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.
  • fluid assets — assets that are in the form of cash or easily convertible into cash
  • 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.
  • flummadiddle — A baked main course pudding consisting of stale bread, pork fat, molasses, and spices including cinnamon and allspice. It was a part of early American cuisine, especially in New England.
  • flux density — the magnetic, radiant, or electric flux per unit of cross-sectional area.
  • flying field — a small landing field with short runways and facilities for servicing airplanes on a lesser scale than an airport.
  • flying wedge — a fast-moving group of law-enforcement officers in a compact, wedge-shaped formation that can infiltrate crowds or protect someone effectively.
  • 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 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.
  • foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
  • foot soldier — an infantryman.
  • footsoldiers — Plural form of footsoldier.
  • foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
  • forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
  • forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
  • foredestined — Simple past tense and past participle of foredestine.
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