12-letter words containing c, o, f, e
- forrest city — a city in E Arkansas.
- fort detrick — a military reservation in N Maryland, NW of Frederick.
- 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.
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- found object — a natural or manufactured object that is perceived as being aesthetically satisfying and exhibited as such.
- four-channel — Audio. quadraphonic.
- four-corners — a point in the SW U.S., at the intersection of 37° N latitude and 109° W longitude, where the boundaries of four states—Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico—meet: the only such point in the U.S.
- fourses cake — a traditional English bread made with lard, dried fruit, and spices
- fowl cholera — a specific, acute, diarrheal disease of fowls, especially chickens, caused by a bacterium, Pasteurella multocida.
- fractionated — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionate.
- francophones — Plural form of francophone.
- 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.
- 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 congo — former name of the People's Republic of the Congo.
- french doors — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- french shore — either of two stretches of coastline inhabited mainly by Francophone Canadians: the W coast of Newfoundland and the SW coast of Nova Scotia between Yarmouth and Digby.
- 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 union — a former association of France and its overseas territories, colonies, and protectorates as constituted in 1946: superseded by the French Community in 1958.
- fresco secco — the technique of painting in watercolors on dry plaster. Also called dry fresco, secco. Compare fresco (def 1).
- frictionless — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
- friend-court — amicus curiae.
- frog sticker — Slang. a knife, especially one carried as a weapon.
- frog-sticker — Slang. a knife, especially one carried as a weapon.
- frolicsomely — In a frolicsome manner.
- frondescence — the process or period of putting forth leaves, as a tree, plant, or the like.
- 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.
- fructiferous — fruit-bearing; producing fruit.
- 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).
- fudge factor — any variable component added to an experiment, plan, or the like that can be manipulated to allow leeway for error.
- fumariaceous — belonging to the plant family Fumariaceae.
- function key — a key on a computer keyboard or terminal that, when pressed, alone or in combination with other keys, causes a specific computational or mechanical operation to be carried out.
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- functionless — Lacking a function.
- fundusectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
- funnel cloud — a rapidly rotating funnel-shaped cloud extending downward from the base of a cumulonimbus cloud, which, if it touches the surface of the earth, is a tornado or waterspout.
- furfuraceous — of or containing bran.
- 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
- future shock — physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
- genuflection — an act of bending the knee or touching it to the ground in reverence or worship.
- gift voucher — gift certificate.
- give offence — to cause annoyance or displeasure to someone
- good offices — Someone's good offices are the help that they give to other people who are trying to achieve something.
- ground force — a military force that operates on the ground
- half section — a part that is cut off or separated.