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

  • fact-finding — a person who searches impartially for the facts or actualities of a subject or situation, especially one appointed to conduct an official investigation, as in a labor-management conflict.
  • fainthearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
  • fair-skinned — having pale skin; pale-complexioned
  • falling band — a large, flat collar, usually trimmed with lace, worn by men in the 17th century.
  • falling door — flap door (def 1).
  • false friend — a word or expression in one language that, because it resembles one in another language, is often wrongly taken to have the same meaning, for example, the French agenda which means diary, not agenda
  • false indigo — any of several North American shrubs belonging to the genus Amorpha, of the legume family, especially A. fruticosa, having compound leaves with pinnate leaflets and long, dense clusters of purplish flowers.
  • fancy diving — diving competition from a springboard into water, the contestants being judged chiefly by their grace and control in executing a specified series of dives in a prescribed manner.
  • far and wide — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
  • faradization — to stimulate or treat (muscles or nerves) with induced alternating electric current (distinguished from galvanize).
  • fare-dodging — the practice of trying to travel on public transport without paying the fare
  • farthingdale — (British, dated, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.
  • farthingland — a unit of land area, sometimes described as being equivalent to thirty acres
  • fascinatedly — In a fascinated manner; with fascination.
  • fault-finder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
  • faultfinding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
  • federalizing — Present participle of federalize.
  • feebleminded — lacking the normal mental powers.
  • feeding time — the regular time at which babies or animals are fed
  • feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
  • fence lizard — either of two spiny lizards, Sceloporus undulatus and S. occidentalis, of the U.S. and northern Mexico, often seen on fences.
  • fennoscandia — region in N Europe, including Scandinavia, Finland, and the part of NW Russia west of the White Sea
  • ferdinand ii — ("the Catholic") 1452–1516, founder of the Spanish monarchy 1506: king of Sicily 1468–1516, king of Aragon 1479–1516; as Ferdinand III, king of Naples 1504–16; as King Ferdinand V, joint sovereign (with Isabella I) of Castile 1474–1504.
  • ferdinand vi — 1713–59, king of Spain 1746–59 (son of Philip V).
  • 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 .
  • fianchettoed — Simple past tense and past participle of fianchetto.
  • fiber bundle — a flexible bundle of optical glass that transmits images.
  • fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
  • field centre — a research centre equipped for field studies, usually located in or near an area of scientific interest
  • field cornet — a commander of burgher troops called up in time of war or in an emergency, esp during the 19th century
  • field magnet — a magnet for producing a magnetic field, as in a particle accelerator or an electric motor.
  • field ration — ration issued and authorized for troops in the field.
  • fiendishness — The quality of being fiendish.
  • fifty-second — next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
  • final demand — the last in a series of requests for payment of money owed, which usually contains a threat of legal action if the demand is ignored
  • 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.
  • fine-grained — being of fine grain or texture, as certain types of wood, leather, etc.
  • fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
  • fire hydrant — a hydrant for use in extinguishing fires.
  • firing order — the sequence of ignition in the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine
  • firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
  • 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-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.
  • 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.
  • 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
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