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

  • dreadfulness — The characteristic of being dreadful.
  • dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
  • drift netter — a person who uses a drift net in fishing.
  • duncan phyfe — of, relating to, or resembling the furniture made by Duncan Phyfe, especially the earlier pieces in the Sheraton and Directoire styles.
  • dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
  • dwarf planet — a spherical celestial body revolving about the sun, similar to a planet but not large enough to gravitationally clear its orbital region of most or all other celestial bodies. Pluto is a dwarf planet.
  • dye transfer — a photographic printing method by which a full-color image is produced by the printing of separate cyan, magenta, and yellow images from individual gelatin relief matrices.
  • dysfluencies — disfluency.
  • ebb and flow — tidal movement
  • eco-friendly — environmentally safe
  • edifications — Plural form of edification.
  • end effector — The end effector of an actuator is the part that comes into contact with the object being moved or controlled.
  • end of steel — a point up to which railway tracks have been laid
  • enfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of enfranchise.
  • extended bnf — Extended Backus-Naur Form
  • face down/up — If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
  • face-centred — (of a crystal) having a lattice point at the centre of each face of each unit cell as well as at the corners
  • facial index — Craniometry. the ratio of the breadth of a face to its height.
  • fainthearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
  • fair-skinned — having pale skin; pale-complexioned
  • 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.
  • far and near — at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point: We sailed far ahead of the fleet.
  • 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.
  • fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
  • 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.
  • fascinatedly — In a fascinated manner; with fascination.
  • fault-finder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
  • favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
  • 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
  • fer de lance — a large pit viper, Bothrops atrox, of tropical America.
  • fer-de-lance — a large pit viper, Bothrops atrox, of tropical America.
  • 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).
  • fernando póo — Bioko
  • 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.
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