12-letter words containing a, r, e, f, y
- formaldehyde — a colorless, toxic, potentially carcinogenic, water-soluble gas, CH 2 O, having a suffocating odor, usually derived from methyl alcohol by oxidation: used chiefly in aqueous solution, as a disinfectant and preservative, and in the manufacture of various resins and plastics.
- fort kearney — a former fort in S Nebraska, near Kearney: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
- fotheringhay — a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.
- fragmentally — fragmentary.
- fraternality — Brotherliness.
- fraudulently — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- free company — a band of free companions.
- freezer tray — a shallow container used to hold food that is to be frozen
- freight yard — a place on a rail network where freight trains are made up or broken up
- frenetically — In a frenetic manner.
- fribble away — to use wastefully
- fritter away — to squander or disperse piecemeal; waste little by little (usually followed by away): to fritter away one's money; to fritter away an afternoon.
- from day one — from the very beginning
- frustratedly — In a frustrated manner.
- frying steak — a steak that is cooked by frying
- funeral pyre — bonfire for cremation
- funny papers — funny1 (def 7b).
- galley proof — a proof, originally one set from type in a galley, taken before the material has been made up into pages and usually printed as a single column of type with wide margins for marking corrections.
- gay-friendly — welcoming to gay people
- grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
- gravity feed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- hobby farmer — a person who runs a farm as a hobby rather than a means of making a living
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hyperinflate — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- hypersurface — a mathematical object that generalizes the concept of surface from three-dimensional Euclidean space to hyperspace.
- in your face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- in-your-face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- irreformably — in an irreformable manner
- irrefragably — In an irrefragable state or condition.
- jury foreman — a member of a jury in a court of law who is chosen by the other members to act as spokesperson for the jury
- mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
- memory farts — (jargon, humour) The flatulent sounds that some MS-DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory at boot time.
- office party — a party or informal social gathering for all the employees in a particular organization or department
- olfactometry — The study and measurement of smells.
- 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
- parsley fern — a small bright green tufted European fern, Cryptogramma crispa, that grows on acid scree and rock in uplands
- penny loafer — a loafer with a slot on the vamp that can hold a coin, usually a penny.
- perfect year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
- quarry-faced — rock-faced.
- reflationary — economy: relating to reflation
- refractivity — the power to refract.
- safety razor — a razor with a guard to prevent the blade from cutting the skin.
- sea crayfish — spiny lobster.
- self-mastery — self-control.
- streamer fly — an artificial fly having a wing or wings extending beyond the crook of the fishhook.
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu