12-letter words containing a, f, e, n
- finger-paint — a jellylike paint, used chiefly by children in painting, usually with their fingers.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- fire balloon — a montgolfier.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- fire curtain — safety curtain.
- fire hydrant — a hydrant for use in extinguishing fires.
- fire station — a building in which firefighting apparatus and usually fire department personnel are housed; firehouse.
- fire walking — a religious rite in which people walk barefoot over white-hot ashes, stones, etc
- firing range — range (def 5).
- fiscal agent — a person or organization serving as another's financial agent.
- five nations — (formerly) a confederacy of North American Indian peoples living mainly in and around present-day New York state, consisting of the Cayugas, Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, and Senecas
- 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.
- flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
- flagellating — Present participle of flagellate.
- flagellation — the act or process of flagellating.
- flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
- flannel cake — griddlecake; pancake.
- flannel-leaf — the common mullein, Verbascum thapsus.
- 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.
- flannelmouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
- flat-grained — (of sawed lumber) having the annual rings at an angle of less than 45° with the broader surfaces.
- flatteringly — In a flattering manner.
- flavoprotein — an enzyme, containing riboflavin and linked chemically with a protein, active in the oxidation of foods in animal cells.
- flawlessness — having no defects or faults, especially none that diminish the value of something: a flawless Ming Dynasty vase.
- flesh-eating — habitually eating flesh; carnivorous
- flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
- floor-manage — to act as or in the manner of a floor manager.
- flow pattern — The flow pattern is the way in which fluids move through a reactor.
- fluoranthene — (organic compound) A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of a benzene ring attached to each of the rings of a naphthalene molecule; it is carcinogenic, and is a product of incomplete combustion.
- fluphenazine — a potent tranquilizer, C 22 H 26 F 3 N 3 OS, derived from phenothiazine and used in various forms for the management of certain neurological or psychotic disorders and for short-term treatment of acute anxiety.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
- flux linkage — the product of the magnetic flux and the number of turns in a given coil.
- fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
- focal length — the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane. Symbol: f.
- folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
- fomentations — Plural form of fomentation.
- footplateman — a member of a locomotive crew who stands on the footplate to operate the controls
- for a change — contrary to the norm
- for a season — for a while
- for a wonder — to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
- for instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- for-instance — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- foraminifera — any chiefly marine protozoan of the sarcodinian order Foraminifera, typically having a linear, spiral, or concentric shell perforated by small holes or pores through which pseudopodia extend.
- forbearances — Plural form of forbearance.
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- fore and aft — situated at or toward the front, as compared with something else.