12-letter words containing a, t, n, s, o
- extropianism — Belief in, or support for, the theory of extropy.
- fabrications — Plural form of fabrication.
- factionalism — of a faction or factions.
- factionalist — of a faction or factions.
- factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- fascinations — Plural form of fascination.
- fashionistas — Plural form of fashionista.
- fast fashion — the reproduction of highly fashionable clothes at high speed and low cost
- fast neutron — a neutron produced by nuclear fission that has lost little energy by collision; a neutron with a kinetic energy in excess of 0.1 MeV
- fast-flowing — water: rapid
- fast-growing — growing very quickly
- fastigiation — The quality of being fastigiate.
- favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
- feminisation — Alternative spelling of feminization.
- fenestration — the design and disposition of windows and other exterior openings of a building.
- fianarantsoa — a city in E central Madagascar.
- fictionalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of fictionalize.
- finalisation — The act or process of finalising.
- fire station — a building in which firefighting apparatus and usually fire department personnel are housed; firehouse.
- first nation — any of the indigenous peoples or Indian communities of Canada, especially one formally recognized by the Canadian government.
- fishing boat — vessel: for fishing
- five nations — (formerly) a confederacy of North American Indian peoples living mainly in and around present-day New York state, consisting of the Cayugas, Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, and Senecas
- flag station — a railroad station where trains stop only when a flag or other signal is displayed or when passengers are to be discharged.
- fluctuations — Plural form of fluctuation.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
- fomentations — Plural form of fomentation.
- 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.
- forestalling — Present participle of forestall.
- formulations — Plural form of formulation.
- fornications — Plural form of fornication.
- fornicatress — (obsolete) A woman guilty of fornication.
- 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
- 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.
- galanty show — pantomime shadow play
- galvanotaxis — movement of an organism or any of its parts in a particular direction in response to an electric current; electrotaxis.
- gammon steak — a thick cut of meat made from smoked or cured bacon or ham and often served with pineapple or fried egg
- gas constant — a constant, 8.314 joules per degree Kelvin, equal to the product of the pressure and the volume of one gram molecule of an ideal gas divided by the absolute temperature. Symbol: R.
- gas equation — an equation that equates the product of the pressure and the volume of one mole of a gas to the product of its thermodynamic temperature and the gas constant. The equation is exact for an ideal gas and is a good approximation for real gases at low pressures
- gasification — Action of gasifying.