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12-letter words containing l, o, n, d

  • english bond — a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers
  • fall down on — to fail or be unsuccessful in (a job, etc.)
  • falling door — flap door (def 1).
  • 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.
  • fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
  • 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.
  • find oneself — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
  • flannelboard — a flannel-covered surface to which other flannel pieces, as letters of the alphabet, numbers, etc., adhere merely by contact, used mainly in schools as a visual aid.
  • flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
  • flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
  • float around — A rumour or idea that is floating around is often heard or talked about.
  • fluidization — The act or process of fluidizing.
  • fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
  • fluoridation — the addition of fluorides to the public water supply to reduce the incidence of tooth decay.
  • folding door — a door with hinged sections that can be folded flat against one another when opened.
  • 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
  • folinic acid — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 20 H 23 N 7 O 7 , produced by fermentation or derived from folic acid, used in medicine in the treatment of certain anemias.
  • foodlessness — Absence of food.
  • foot-poundal — a foot-pound-second unit of work or energy equal to the work done by a force of one poundal when its point of application moves through a distance of one foot in the direction of the force. Abbreviation: ft-pdl.
  • forbiddingly — In a forbidding manner.
  • forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
  • forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
  • forehandedly — Prudently, with thrift and foresight.
  • forward line — the soldiers at the forward most position in an army force
  • foundational — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
  • fourfoldness — the quality of consisting of four parts
  • front loader — a washing machine with a door at the front which opens one side of the drum into which washing is placed
  • front-loaded — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
  • front-loader — a machine or appliance, as a washing machine, loaded and unloaded through an opening in the front (as distinguished from a top loader).
  • funnel cloud — a rapidly rotating funnel-shaped cloud extending downward from the base of a cumulonimbus cloud, which, if it touches the surface of the earth, is a tornado or waterspout.
  • furazolidone — a nitrofuran, C 8 H 7 N 3 O 5 , that is used in the treatment of giardiasis, and bacterial gastroenteritis and dysentery.
  • gable window — a window in or under a gable.
  • ganglionated — gangliate.
  • gangliosides — Plural form of ganglioside.
  • genetic load — the extent to which a population deviates from the theoretically fittest genetic constitution.
  • get involved — play a part
  • gideon bible — a Bible purchased by members of a Christian organization (Gideons International) and placed in a hotel room, hospital ward, etc
  • gladiatorian — (dated) Of or relating to gladiators or to combat in general; gladiatorial.
  • gladsomeness — (archaic) gladness.
  • glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
  • global index — (filename extension)   (gid) The filename extension of a Windows 95 "global index" file. .gid files are created by the help browser internal to Windows 95 (also available for other Windows versions) for WinHelp files (hlp), as well as for storing user preferences, such as window position.
  • glutaredoxin — (enzyme) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.
  • glyndebourne — an estate in SE England, in East Sussex: site of a famous annual festival of opera founded in 1934 by John Christie
  • god's plenty — an abundant or overabundant quantity.
  • godwin's law — (humour)   "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely recognised codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
  • gold digging — the work of digging for gold.
  • gold farming — the practice of selling virtual assets gained in a computer game for real money
  • gold filling — a small amount of gold that a dentist puts in a hole in a tooth to prevent further decay
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