12-letter words containing f, a, i, r, n, t
- exfiltration — (military) The process of exiting an area (usually behind enemy lines or in enemy territory).
- fabrications — Plural form of fabrication.
- fainthearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
- fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
- falling star — an incandescent meteor; a shooting star.
- faradization — to stimulate or treat (muscles or nerves) with induced alternating electric current (distinguished from galvanize).
- farthingales — Plural form of farthingale.
- farthingdale — (British, dated, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.
- farthingland — a unit of land area, sometimes described as being equivalent to thirty acres
- farthingless — without a farthing, having no money
- fast-growing — growing very quickly
- fatherliness — The property of being fatherly.
- fault-finder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
- featherbrain — a foolish or giddy person; scatterbrain.
- featheriness — The state or quality of being feathery.
- febrifacient — producing fever.
- fenestration — the design and disposition of windows and other exterior openings of a building.
- fermentation — the act or process of fermenting.
- fermentative — tending to produce or undergo fermentation.
- fianarantsoa — a city in E central Madagascar.
- fiberization — the process or practice of breaking into fibres
- fibrillating — Present participle of fibrillate.
- fibrillation — the formation of fibrils.
- field ration — ration issued and authorized for troops in the field.
- finger paint — paint children apply with fingers
- finger-paint — a jellylike paint, used chiefly by children in painting, usually with their fingers.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- fire curtain — safety curtain.
- fire hydrant — a hydrant for use in extinguishing fires.
- fire station — a building in which firefighting apparatus and usually fire department personnel are housed; firehouse.
- firing party — a military detachment detailed to fire a salute at a funeral
- first nation — any of the indigenous peoples or Indian communities of Canada, especially one formally recognized by the Canadian government.
- flat-grained — (of sawed lumber) having the annual rings at an angle of less than 45° with the broader surfaces.
- flatteringly — In a flattering manner.
- flavoprotein — an enzyme, containing riboflavin and linked chemically with a protein, active in the oxidation of foods in animal cells.
- floating rib — one member of the two lowest pairs of ribs, which are attached neither to the sternum nor to the cartilages of other ribs.
- flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
- fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
- fluoridation — the addition of fluorides to the public water supply to reduce the incidence of tooth decay.
- fluorinating — Present participle of fluorinate.
- fluorination — (chemistry) The introduction of fluorine into a compound by means of a chemical reaction.
- 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.
- footdragging — the act or practice of acting with deliberate slowness
- 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.
- foraging ant — any of several ants, as army ants, that forage as part of a large group.
- foreordinate — foreordain.
- forestalling — Present participle of forestall.