12-letter words containing a, n, e, o, f
- forked chain — branched chain.
- fornicatress — (obsolete) A woman guilty of fornication.
- forsakenness — past participle of forsake.
- fort kearney — a former fort in S Nebraska, near Kearney: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
- fortepianist — the player of a fortepiano
- forward line — the soldiers at the forward most position in an army force
- fotheringhay — a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.
- foundationer — a person supported by funds from a foundation, or serving as a member of a foundation
- fountain pen — a pen with a refillable reservoir that provides a continuous supply of usually fluid ink to its point.
- fountainhead — a fountain or spring from which a stream flows; the head or source of a stream.
- four-channel — Audio. quadraphonic.
- fractionated — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionate.
- francophones — Plural form of francophone.
- free balloon — a balloon, often equipped to carry passengers, that drifts with air currents and whose ascent and descent are controlled by the release of ballast and buoyant gas.
- free coinage — the unrestricted coinage of bullion or of a specified metal, as silver, into money for any person bringing it to the mint, either with or without charge for minting.
- free company — a band of free companions.
- free on rail — (of a consignment of goods) delivered to a railway station and loaded onto a train without charge to the buyer
- french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- 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.
- from day one — from the very beginning
- front loader — a washing machine with a door at the front which opens one side of the drum into which washing is placed
- front matter — all material in a book that precedes the text proper, as the title page, copyright page, table of contents, dedication, and preface.
- front-loaded — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
- front-loader — a machine or appliance, as a washing machine, loaded and unloaded through an opening in the front (as distinguished from a top loader).
- frontal bone — a broad membrane bone of the skull, forming the forehead and the upper portion of each orbit.
- frontal lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the central sulcus.
- 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).
- frumentation — (in ancient Rome) a public donation of grain, often given to citizens during times of unease
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- funeral home — an establishment where the dead are prepared for burial or cremation, where the body may be viewed, and where funeral services are sometimes held.
- furazolidone — a nitrofuran, C 8 H 7 N 3 O 5 , that is used in the treatment of giardiasis, and bacterial gastroenteritis and dysentery.
- furnace room — a room containing a furnace or an enclosed chamber for producing heat, often on the bottom floor of the building that it heats
- galeniferous — Of a mineral or deposit that contains galena.
- gelatiniform — Having the form of gelatin.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- gonfaloniers — Plural form of gonfalonier.
- gradeflation — grade inflation.
- gulf of aden — a waterway in the Arabian sea between Yemen and Somalia and connecting with the Red Sea
- half a dozen — six
- half section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half-drowned — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- half-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- have none of — If you say that someone will have none of something, or is having none of something, you mean that they refuse to accept it.
- henceforward — from now on; from this point forward.
- herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
- hexaflexagon — A hexagonal flexagon.
- 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.
- hua guo feng — 1921–2008, Chinese Communist statesman; prime minister of China 1976–80
- huffman code — Huffman coding