12-letter words containing a, t, f, i, r, s
- first nation — any of the indigenous peoples or Indian communities of Canada, especially one formally recognized by the Canadian government.
- first of all — to start with
- first reader — the elected official of a church or society who conducts the services and meetings and reads from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and the Scriptures.
- first-grader — a child in the first grade
- fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
- fissirostral — having a broad, deeply cleft beak or bill, as the swallows and goatsuckers.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- flying start — a start, as in sailboat racing, in which the entrants begin moving before reaching the starting line.
- foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
- for instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- for-instance — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- fore-topsail — a topsail set on a foremast on a ship.
- forestalling — Present participle of forestall.
- forestaysail — a triangular sail set on a forestay; the innermost headsail of a vessel.
- foretopsails — Plural form of foretopsail.
- formulations — Plural form of formulation.
- fornications — Plural form of fornication.
- fornicatress — (obsolete) A woman guilty of fornication.
- fort madison — a city in SE Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- fort pulaski — Count Casimir [kaz-uh-meer] /ˈkæz əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1748–79, Polish patriot; general in the American Revolutionary army.
- fortepianist — the player of a fortepiano
- fracastorius — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 60 miles (97 km) in diameter.
- francescatti — Zino [zee-noh] /ˈzi noʊ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1991, French violinist.
- frankenstein — a person who creates a monster or a destructive agency that cannot be controlled or that brings about the creator's ruin.
- fraternalism — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
- fraternising — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
- fraternities — Plural form of fraternity.
- free skating — a freestyle competition with no required elements, in which skaters perform an original program of jumps, spins, sequences, etc., to music of their choice.
- freestanding — (of sculpture or architectural elements) unattached to a supporting unit or background; standing alone.
- 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.
- frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
- fritillaries — Plural form of fritillary.
- 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).
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- frustrations — Plural form of frustration.
- frying steak — a steak that is cooked by frying
- imperforates — Plural form of imperforate.
- infiltrators — Plural form of infiltrator.
- informations — (legal) Plural form of information.
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- isapi filter — (web) A replaceable DLL which the server calls whenever there is an HTTP request. When the filter is first loaded, it communicates to the server what sort of notifications will be accepted. After that, whenever a selected event occurs, the filter is called to process the event. Example applications of ISAPI filters include custom authentication schemes, compression, encryption, logging, traffic analysis or other request analyses.
- lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- lifestreamer — a person who provides an online record of his or her life, either by means of live video footage or via an online collection of social network updates, blogs, and photos
- misfeaturing — distorting the features
- misformation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- multifarious — having many different parts, elements, forms, etc.
- mutessarifat — a province governed by a mutessarif