12-letter words containing i, d, y
- ferricyanide — a salt of ferricyanic acid, as potassium ferricyanide, K 3 Fe(CN) 6 .
- ferrocyanide — a salt of ferrocyanic acid, as potassium ferrocyanide, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 .
- ferry bridge — transporter bridge.
- field hockey — a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.
- field theory — a detailed mathematical description of the distribution and movement of matter under the influence of one or more fields.
- fifty-second — next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
- fire hydrant — a hydrant for use in extinguishing fires.
- 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
- flash drying — Flash drying is a stage in a process to make something bigger, in which a paste-like feed is broken up and dried at the same time.
- floppy drive — disk drive
- florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
- 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 squad — a trained, mobile group of police officers, business executives, labor officials, or the like, capable of performing specialized tasks whenever or wherever sent, often for use in emergencies.
- flying wedge — a fast-moving group of law-enforcement officers in a compact, wedge-shaped formation that can infiltrate crowds or protect someone effectively.
- food pyramid — successive levels of predation in a food chain represented schematically as a pyramid because upper levels normally consist of decreasing numbers of larger predators.
- food stylist — a person whose job is to arrange food in an attractive way for professional photographs or broadcasts.
- food subsidy — a financial aid supplied by a government, as to industry, farmers, or consumers, in order to make low-cost food available to the poor
- forbiddingly — In a forbidding manner.
- forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
- foreign body — object lodged where it does not belong
- fowl typhoid — a septicemic disease of fowl, especially chickens, caused by the bacterium Salmonella gallinarum and marked by fever, loss of appetite, thirst, anemic pallor of the skin of the head, and prostration.
- freight yard — a place on a rail network where freight trains are made up or broken up
- frightenedly — thrown into a fright; afraid; scared; terrified: a frightened child cowering in the corner.
- fungicidally — in a fungicidal manner
- furry friend — a pet, esp a cat or a dog
- gas cylinder — container for storing gas
- gas dynamics — the study of the dynamic properties of gases and their thermal effects.
- gay-friendly — welcoming to gay people
- geodetically — pertaining to geodesy.
- giddy-headed — giddy (def 1).
- gingerbready — Resembling or characteristic of gingerbread.
- glycerinated — to impregnate with glycerin.
- glycerolipid — (organic chemistry) Any lipid based on glycerol.
- glycopeptide — any of a group of complex proteins, as mucin, containing a carbohydrate combined with a simple protein.
- glycosidases — Plural form of glycosidase.
- go-away bird — a common name for a grey-plumaged lourie of the genus Corythaixoides
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
- gradeability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- graft hybrid — a hybrid plant that is produced by grafting and that exhibits characters of both the stock and the scion.
- gravity feed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- gravity wind — a light wind directed downslope, occurring at night because of the cooling and densification of the air near the ground.
- gray catbird — any of several American or Australian birds having catlike cries, especially Dumetella carolinensis (gray catbird) of North America.
- grindability — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
- gynodioecism — the condition of having flowers that are only female in one example of a plant and flowers that have stamens and pistils in another example of a plant of the same species
- gypsy driver — the driver of a gypsy cab
- haemodynamic — Alternative spelling of hemodynamic.
- half holiday — a holiday limited to half a working day or half an academic day.
- half-holiday — a holiday limited to half a working day or half an academic day.