12-letter words containing a, l, i, f, o, r
- goliath frog — the largest living frog, Rana goliath, which occurs in the Congo region of Africa and can grow to a length of 30 centimetres
- gonfaloniers — Plural form of gonfalonier.
- gourd family — the plant family Cucurbitaceae, characterized by tendril-bearing vines, either trailing or climbing and having alternate, palmately lobed leaves, often large yellow or greenish flowers, and many-seeded, fleshy fruit with a hard rind, and including the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, and squash.
- gradeflation — grade inflation.
- gulf of riga — a large deep bay on the Baltic Sea
- half serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- half-serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- hexafluoride — a fluoride containing six atoms of fluorine.
- horrifically — causing horror.
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- imperforable — not able to be perforated
- infiltration — the act or process of infiltrating.
- infiltrators — Plural form of infiltrator.
- inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
- inflationary — of, pertaining to, reflective of, or causing inflation: inflationary prices.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- informercial — infomercial.
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- infraorbital — (anatomy) Below the orbit (of the eye).
- interfemoral — situated between the thighs
- interfoliate — to interleave
- interfrontal — situated between the frontal bones
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- irreformable — insusceptible to reforming influences; incorrigible.
- irreformably — in an irreformable manner
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- lachrymiform — Shaped like a teardrop.
- laminar flow — the flow of a viscous fluid in which particles of the fluid move in parallel layers, each of which has a constant velocity but is in motion relative to its neighboring layers.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- leapfrogging — Present participle of leapfrog.
- ligulifloral — having strap-shaped flowers
- loan officer — a bank employee who helps would-be borrowers get a loan
- logical form — the syntactic structure that may be shared by different expressions as abstracted from their content and articulated by the logical constants of a particular logical system, esp the structure of an argument by virtue of which it can be shown to be formally valid. Thus John is tall and thin, so John is tall has the same logical form as London is large and dirty, so London is large, namely P & Q, so P
- loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- macrofossils — Plural form of macrofossil.
- malformation — faulty or anomalous formation or structure, especially in a living body: malformation of the teeth.
- microfilaria — the embryonic larva of the nematode parasite Filaria or of related genera, especially of those species that cause heartworm in dogs and elephantiasis in humans.
- multifarious — having many different parts, elements, forms, etc.
- myofibrillar — Of or pertaining to myofibrils.
- nonformalism — Absence of, or a belief system that is the opposite of, formalism.
- off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
- oil platform — An oil platform is a structure that is used when getting oil from the ground under the sea.
- old favorite — If you refer to something as an old favorite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
- olfactronics — the measurement and analysis of smells through instruments
- over-inflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- over-qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- overfamiliar — commonly or generally known or seen: a familiar sight.