12-letter words containing r, a, d, o
- fare-dodging — the practice of trying to travel on public transport without paying the fare
- farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
- fascia-board — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
- fast forward — advance rapidly through
- fast-forward — a function of an audio or video recorder or player, as a cassette deck or DVR, that allows the content to be advanced rapidly.
- favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
- feed-forward — A multi-layer perceptron network in which the outputs from all neurons (see McCulloch-Pitts) go to following but not preceding layers, so there are no feedback loops.
- fernando póo — Bioko
- ferrocyanide — a salt of ferrocyanic acid, as potassium ferrocyanide, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 .
- fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
- field ration — ration issued and authorized for troops in the field.
- fig marigold — any of various plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, having showy flowers of white, yellow, or pink.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- flameproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of flameproof.
- 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.
- flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
- flashforward — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
- float around — A rumour or idea that is floating around is often heard or talked about.
- 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.
- floor leader — the majority leader or minority leader in either the Senate or the House of Representatives.
- floor trader — a member of a stock or commodity exchange who executes orders on the floor of the exchange for his or her own account.
- florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
- florida moss — Spanish moss.
- florida room — a sunroom.
- fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
- fluoridation — the addition of fluorides to the public water supply to reduce the incidence of tooth decay.
- flutterboard — a kickboard.
- food allergy — an allergy to a specific type of food
- 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.
- foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
- footdragging — the act or practice of acting with deliberate slowness
- for a wonder — to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
- forced march — any march that is longer than troops are accustomed to and maintained at a faster pace than usual, generally undertaken for a particular objective under emergency conditions.
- forced-draft — using a flow of air or air forced through a pipe or system of pipes by fans or blowers: a forced-draft central heating system.
- fore and aft — situated at or toward the front, as compared with something else.
- fore-and-aft — located along or parallel to a line from the stem to the stern.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- foregathered — Simple past tense and past participle of foregather.
- forehandedly — Prudently, with thrift and foresight.
- foreordained — to ordain or appoint beforehand.
- foreordinate — foreordain.
- foreshadowed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshadow.
- foreshadower — One who or that which foreshadows.
- forked chain — branched chain.
- formal dress — clothing for elegant or solemn occasions
- formaldehyde — a colorless, toxic, potentially carcinogenic, water-soluble gas, CH 2 O, having a suffocating odor, usually derived from methyl alcohol by oxidation: used chiefly in aqueous solution, as a disinfectant and preservative, and in the manufacture of various resins and plastics.
- formularized — Simple past tense and past participle of formularize.
- fort madison — a city in SE Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- fortified pa — a Māori hilltop dwelling with trenches and palisades for defensive occupation