12-letter words containing s, e, r, d
- finder's fee — a fee paid to a finder or agent who initiates a business transaction, usually a percentage of the money earned.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- first degree — People who have gained a higher qualification after completing a basic university degree such as a BA or a BSc refer to that basic degree as their first degree.
- first reader — the elected official of a church or society who conducts the services and meetings and reads from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and the Scriptures.
- first-degree — of or relating to the lowest or first in a series.
- first-grader — a child in the first grade
- flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
- flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
- fleur-de-lis — a heraldic device somewhat resembling three petals or floral segments of an iris tied by an encircling band.
- fleur-de-lys — fleur-de-lis (defs 1, 2).
- flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
- flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
- florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
- fluoroscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoroscope.
- food service — the preparation, delivery, serving, etc., of ready-to-eat foods: The cafeteria employs over 20 people in food service.
- foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
- foot soldier — an infantryman.
- footsoldiers — Plural form of footsoldier.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- foredestined — Simple past tense and past participle of foredestine.
- foreshadowed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshadow.
- foreshadower — One who or that which foreshadows.
- formal dress — clothing for elegant or solemn occasions
- forty-second — next after the forty-first; being the ordinal number for 42.
- forward sale — the sale of something that is to be delivered and paid for at a later date
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- fourdriniers — Plural form of fourdrinier.
- fourfoldness — the quality of consisting of four parts
- freestanding — (of sculpture or architectural elements) unattached to a supporting unit or background; standing alone.
- french doors — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- french sudan — former name of Mali.
- friendliness — characteristic of or befitting a friend; showing friendship: a friendly greeting.
- frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
- frondescence — the process or period of putting forth leaves, as a tree, plant, or the like.
- frondiferous — Producing fronds.
- frustratedly — In a frustrated manner.
- fused quartz — glass made entirely from quartz: a form of silica glass.
- gallbladders — Plural form of gallbladder.
- gangsterland — an area controlled by gangsters
- garden cress — a peppergrass, Lepidium sativum, used as a salad vegetable.
- garden snail — Zoology
- garden state — New Jersey (used as a nickname).
- gas cylinder — container for storing gas
- gas-operated — (of a firearm) using some of the exhaust gases to operate the action.
- gastrodermal — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- gastrodermis — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- gendarmeries — Plural form of gendarmerie.
- geopressured — subject to geostatic pressure.
- gerrymanders — Plural form of gerrymander.
- gersdorffite — a mineral, sulfide-arsenide of nickel, NiAsS, occurring in metallic, light-gray cubes.