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12-letter words containing f, a, i, r, s

  • fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
  • fair-skinned — having pale skin; pale-complexioned
  • fairy lights — Fairy lights are small, coloured electric lights that are hung up as decorations, for example on a Christmas tree.
  • fairy shrimp — any member of the crustacean order Anostraca, characterized by an elongate trunk with more than 20 segments and the absence of a carapace, typically found swimming ventral side up in fresh water.
  • faits divers — brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational, lurid, etc.
  • falling star — an incandescent meteor; a shooting star.
  • false aralia — any of several Polynesian shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Dizygotheca, of the ginseng family, having palmately compound, mottled leaves and often grown as a houseplant.
  • false cirrus — a type of thick cirrus cloud spreading from the top of a cumulonimbus cloud
  • false friend — a word or expression in one language that, because it resembles one in another language, is often wrongly taken to have the same meaning, for example, the French agenda which means diary, not agenda
  • familiarised — Simple past tense and past participle of familiarise.
  • familiarizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of familiarize.
  • familiarness — commonly or generally known or seen: a familiar sight.
  • farcicalness — The property of being farcical.
  • farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
  • farthingales — Plural form of farthingale.
  • farthingless — without a farthing, having no money
  • fascia-board — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
  • fascicularly — in a fascicular manner
  • fast-growing — growing very quickly
  • fatherliness — The property of being fatherly.
  • favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
  • featheriness — The state or quality of being feathery.
  • federalistic — an advocate of federalism.
  • fenestration — the design and disposition of windows and other exterior openings of a building.
  • festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
  • fianarantsoa — a city in E central Madagascar.
  • fibroblastic — a cell that contributes to the formation of connective tissue fibers.
  • fibromatosis — (pathology) The presence of multiple fibromas.
  • fibrosarcoma — a sarcoma derived from fibroblast cells, often able to generate collagen.
  • fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
  • fieri facias — a writ commanding a sheriff to levy and sell as much of a debtor's property as is necessary to satisfy a creditor's claim against the debtor. Abbreviation: FI. FA., fi. fa.
  • figure skate — a shoe skate used in figure skating, especially one having a blade shorter than that of a racing skate, usually not extending beyond the toe or heel, and with notches or sawteeth on the curved forward edge.
  • figure-skate — to take part in figure skating
  • figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
  • file-sharing — File-sharing is a method of distributing computer files, for example files containing music, among a large number of users.
  • finger grass — any of various grasses of the genus Chloris, having several narrow spikes in a terminal cluster.
  • finger lakes — group of long, narrow glacial lakes in WC N.Y.
  • fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
  • fire marshal — an official heading a bureau for the prevention or investigation of fires.
  • fire station — a building in which firefighting apparatus and usually fire department personnel are housed; firehouse.
  • firecrackers — Plural form of firecracker.
  • firing glass — a drinking glass of the 18th century having a conical, rounded body on a thick stem and a heavy spreading foot.
  • firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
  • first estate — the first of the three estates: the clergy in France; the Lords Spiritual in England. Compare estate (def 5).
  • first family — a family having the highest or one of the highest social ranks in a given place.
  • 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
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