12-letter words containing a, f, o, n, s
- fort jackson — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in N central South Carolina, NE of Columbia.
- fort madison — a city in SE Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- fortepianist — the player of a fortepiano
- fortran-plus — Fortran for the DAP parallel machine, implements many Fortran 90 features.
- foul-tasting — having a very unpleasant taste
- foundry sand — silica-based sand mixed with clay, oil, etc, to improve its cohesive strength, used in moulding
- francophones — Plural form of francophone.
- french toast — bread dipped in a batter of egg and milk and sautéed until brown, usually served with syrup or sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
- friction saw — a high-speed circular saw, usually toothless, that is used for cutting metals by using frictional heat to melt the material adjacent to it.
- frontiersman — a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- frustrations — Plural form of frustration.
- fulminations — Plural form of fulmination.
- galeniferous — Of a mineral or deposit that contains galena.
- gasification — Action of gasifying.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- gonfaloniers — Plural form of gonfalonier.
- ground staff — The people who are paid to maintain a sports ground are called the ground staff.
- gut of canso — Canso (def 2).
- half section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- high fashion — haute couture.
- hofmannsthal — Hugo von [hoo-goh fuh n] /ˈhu goʊ fən/ (Show IPA), 1874–1929, Austrian poet, playwright, and librettist.
- hohenstaufen — a member of the royal family that ruled in Germany from 1138 to 1208 and from 1215 to 1254, and in Sicily from 1194 to 1266.
- in search of — looking for, seeking
- in so far as — to the extent that
- infamousness — The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
- infatuations — Plural form of infatuation.
- infestations — Plural form of infestation.
- infiltrators — Plural form of infiltrator.
- inflammasome — (biochemistry) A multi-protein complex that is responsible for inflammatory rheumatic diseases via activation of caspases.
- inflationism — the policy or practice of inflation through expansion of currency or bank deposits.
- inflationist — an advocate of inflation through expansion of currency or bank deposits.
- infographics — Plural form of infographic.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- informations — (legal) Plural form of information.
- insufflation — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- isoflavonoid — (organic chemistry) Any compound, isomeric with the flavonoids, derived from 3-phenyl-1,4-benzopyrone.
- jeffersonian — pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
- juventa fons — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed through a telescope.
- king-of-arms — a title of certain of the principal heralds of England and certain other kingdoms empowered by their sovereigns to grant armorial bearings.
- korsakoffian — relating to or suffering from Korsakoff's psychosis
- law of sines — a law stating that the ratio of a side of a plane triangle to the sine of the opposite angle is the same for all three sides.
- loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
- loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
- malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
- malfunctions — Plural form of malfunction.
- man of straw — straw man.
- manifoldness — (mathematics) multiplicity.