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

  • 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 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.
  • field-holler — a cry employing falsetto, portamento, and sudden changes of pitch, used in African-American work songs, later integrated into the techniques of the blues
  • fifth-grader — a student in the fifth grade of the American education system
  • 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.
  • finder's fee — a fee paid to a finder or agent who initiates a business transaction, usually a percentage of the money earned.
  • fine-grained — being of fine grain or texture, as certain types of wood, leather, etc.
  • 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
  • five hundred — a variety of euchre in which a joker and widow are included, the object being to score 500 points first.
  • 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.
  • flat-grained — (of sawed lumber) having the annual rings at an angle of less than 45° with the broader surfaces.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • foreign body — object lodged where it does not belong
  • foreordained — to ordain or appoint beforehand.
  • foreordinate — foreordain.
  • forked chain — branched chain.
  • formularized — Simple past tense and past participle of formularize.
  • fort detrick — a military reservation in N Maryland, NW of Frederick.
  • fortified pa — a Māori hilltop dwelling with trenches and palisades for defensive occupation
  • forward dive — a dive from a position facing the water in which the diver jumps up from the springboard, rotating the body forward, and enters the water either headfirst or feetfirst.
  • forward line — the soldiers at the forward most position in an army force
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