12-letter words containing f, i, d
- chafing dish — a vessel with a heating apparatus beneath it, for cooking or keeping food warm at the table
- chesterfield — a man's knee-length overcoat, usually with a fly front to conceal the buttons and having a velvet collar
- chicken feed — If you think that an amount of money is so small it is hardly worth having or considering, you can say that it is chicken feed.
- childproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of childproof.
- chipped beef — dried or smoked beef sliced into shavings, often served in a cream sauce
- ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
- circumflexed — (linguistics, of a written word) exhibiting circumflex accent.
- clipped form — a shortened form of a word, as for example doc for doctor
- close-fisted — very careful with money; mean
- codification — the systematic organization of methods, rules, etc
- complexified — Simple past tense and past participle of complexify.
- confidential — Information that is confidential is meant to be kept secret or private.
- configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
- crowdfunding — Crowdfunding is when a large number of people each give an amount of money to pay for a project, especially by using a website to collect the money.
- cut and fill — a process of localized gradation whereby material eroded from one place is deposited a short distance away.
- cyberfriends — Plural form of cyberfriend.
- cylindriform — having the form or shape of a cylinder
- dairy farmer — a farmer who has a herd producing milk
- damselfishes — Plural form of damselfish.
- dancing frog — (programming, humour) A bug or glitch that only occurs for a particular user; never when the user tries to show it to anyone else. The term is derived from a Warner Brothers cartoon in which a man discovers a frog which can sing and dance; he believes this will make his fortune but the frog never performs in front of anyone else.
- dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
- de profundis — out of the depths of misery or dejection
- de-intensify — to make intense or more intense.
- dead fingers — a disease of users of pneumatic drills, characterized by anaesthesia of the fingertips and cyanosis
- dead freight — an amount owed by a contractor who charters space in a ship but fails to occupy it fully.
- decaffeinate — to remove all or part of the caffeine from (coffee, tea, etc)
- decalcifying — Present participle of decalcify.
- deck officer — a ship's officer who is part of the deck crew
- declassified — to remove the classification from (information, a document, etc.) that restricts access in terms of secrecy, confidentiality, etc. Compare classification (def 5).
- declassifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declassify.
- deconflicted — Simple past tense and past participle of deconflict.
- defectionist — a person who is in favour of lapsing, backsliding, or defection
- defederalize — to shift the functions or powers of (an agency, service, etc.) from the jurisdiction of the federal government to that of state or local government: to defederalize construction loans.
- defibrillate — to stop fibrillation of (the heart), as by the use of electric current
- deficiencies — the state of being deficient; lack; incompleteness; insufficiency.
- definability — The quality of being definable.
- definiteness — clearly defined or determined; not vague or general; fixed; precise; exact: a definite quantity; definite directions.
- definitional — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
- definitively — most reliable or complete, as of a text, author, criticism, study, or the like: the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson.
- deflagrating — Present participle of deflagrate.
- deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
- deflationary — A deflationary economic policy or measure is one that is intended to or likely to cause deflation.
- deflectional — of or relating to deflection
- deformalized — Simple past tense and past participle of deformalize.
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
- dehumidified — Simple past tense and past participle of dehumidify.
- dehumidifier — A dehumidifier is a machine that is used to reduce the amount of moisture in the air.
- dehumidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dehumidify.
- deidentified — Simple past tense and past participle of deidentify.