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12-letter words containing a, f, e, r

  • 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.
  • east african — of or relating to East Africa or its inhabitants
  • effiguration — a detailed and elaborate description of something
  • enfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of enfranchise.
  • enfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enfranchise.
  • entrance fee — cost of admission
  • exfiltration — (military) The process of exiting an area (usually behind enemy lines or in enemy territory).
  • 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 nerve — either one of the seventh pair of cranial nerves composed of motor fibers that control muscles of the face except those used in chewing.
  • factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
  • factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
  • fainthearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
  • fair-skinned — having pale skin; pale-complexioned
  • fair-weather — used in or intended for fair weather only.
  • fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
  • faith healer — healing effected through prayer or religious faith; divine healing.
  • faith-healer — healing effected through prayer or religious faith; divine healing.
  • faits divers — brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational, lurid, etc.
  • fall webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
  • false aralia — any of several Polynesian shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Dizygotheca, of the ginseng family, having palmately compound, mottled leaves and often grown as a houseplant.
  • false arrest — arrest or detention of a person contrary to or unauthorized by law.
  • false cirrus — a type of thick cirrus cloud spreading from the top of a cumulonimbus cloud
  • false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
  • 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
  • falsehearted — Alternative spelling of false-hearted.
  • familiarised — Simple past tense and past participle of familiarise.
  • familiarized — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
  • familiarizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of familiarize.
  • familiarness — commonly or generally known or seen: a familiar sight.
  • 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.
  • far-reaching — extending far in influence, effect, etc.: the far-reaching effect of his speech.
  • faraday cage — an enclosure constructed of grounded wire mesh or parallel wires that shields sensitive electrical instruments from electrostatic interference.
  • farcicalness — The property of being farcical.
  • 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
  • farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
  • farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
  • farthingales — Plural form of farthingale.
  • farthingdale — (British, dated, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.
  • farthingless — without a farthing, having no money
  • fast neutron — a neutron produced by nuclear fission that has lost little energy by collision; a neutron with a kinetic energy in excess of 0.1 MeV
  • fast reactor — a nuclear reactor using little or no moderator, fission being caused by fast neutrons
  • fast-tracker — of or relating to the fast track.
  • father image — a person substituted in one's mind for one's father and often the object of emotions felt toward the father
  • father's day — a day, usually the third Sunday in June, set aside in honor of fathers.
  • fatherliness — The property of being fatherly.
  • fault-finder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
  • favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
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