12-letter words containing c, e, n, t, r, f
- face-centred — (of a crystal) having a lattice point at the centre of each face of each unit cell as well as at the corners
- fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
- febrifacient — producing fever.
- fence-sitter — a person who remains neutral or undecided in a controversy.
- feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
- field centre — a research centre equipped for field studies, usually located in or near an area of scientific interest
- field cornet — a commander of burgher troops called up in time of war or in an emergency, esp during the 19th century
- fire control — technical and sometimes automatic supervision of artillery or naval gunfire on a target, as for range, elevation, etc.
- fire curtain — safety curtain.
- fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
- food counter — a counter in a shop, bar, cafeteria, etc where food is sold or served
- 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.
- forced entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
- fornicatress — (obsolete) A woman guilty of fornication.
- fort mchenry — a town in NE Illinois.
- fort pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- forty-second — next after the forty-first; being the ordinal number for 42.
- fractionated — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionate.
- franc-tireur — a sharpshooter in the French army.
- francescatti — Zino [zee-noh] /ˈzi noʊ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1991, French violinist.
- free-cutting — (of a metal alloy) having good machinability: free-cutting steel.
- french pleat — curtain, draperies
- french sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and an augmented fourth between the root and the augmented sixth
- french stick — a long straight notched stick loaf
- 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.
- french twist — French roll.
- french-style — French-cut.
- frenetically — In a frenetic manner.
- frictionless — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
- friend-court — amicus curiae.
- front office — the executive or administrative office of a company, organization, etc.
- frontbencher — (politics) one who sits on the front bench in a parliament. Typically the spokesmen for those who sit further back.
- frontispiece — an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
- 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).
- gentle craft — the sport of angling or fishing (usually preceded by the).
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- handicrafter — One who engages in handicrafts.
- hyperfiction — nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.
- imperfection — an imperfect detail; flaw: a law full of imperfections.
- inflorescent — Of, pertaining to or causing inflorescence.
- inter-office — functioning or communicating between the offices of a company or organization; within a company: an interoffice memo.
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- interference — an act, fact, or instance of interfering.
- interfluence — the action of flowing together or merging
- intertraffic — traffic between two or more places or people
- irreflection — lack of careful or long consideration
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
- manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.