12-letter words containing f, a, i, r
- city fathers — You can refer to the members of a city council or city's government as the city fathers.
- clerofascist — A cleric supporting fascism or advocating a synthesis of religion and fascism.
- cliff-hanger — a melodramatic or adventure serial in which each installment ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment.
- cliffhangers — Plural form of cliffhanger.
- conferential — Of or pertaining to a conference.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- configurated — to give a configuration, form, or design to.
- configurator — an item of software that enables or assists in the configuration of a product
- confirmation — the act of confirming
- confirmative — serving to confirm; corroborative.
- confirmatory — confirming or tending to confirm
- confiscatory — involving confiscation
- conformality — (mathematics) The condition (of a map) of being conformal.
- conformation — the general shape or outline of an object; configuration
- conformative — (nonstandard) Tending to conform; conforming.
- containerful — As much as a container can hold.
- corticofugal — (of a nerve fiber) originating in and running from the cerebral cortex.
- craftmanship — Alternative form of craftsmanship.
- craniofacial — relating to both the cranium and the face
- crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
- crinkle leaf — a disease of plants, characterized by puckering, mottling, and distortion of the leaves, caused by any of several viruses.
- crop failure — a failure of crops to yield sufficient food, etc, to maintain a community or to provide a surplus to sell
- curvifoliate — having leaves curved or bent back
- cut a figure — to attract attention
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- dairy farmer — a farmer who has a herd producing milk
- dancing frog — (programming, humour) A bug or glitch that only occurs for a particular user; never when the user tries to show it to anyone else. The term is derived from a Warner Brothers cartoon in which a man discovers a frog which can sing and dance; he believes this will make his fortune but the frog never performs in front of anyone else.
- dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
- dead fingers — a disease of users of pneumatic drills, characterized by anaesthesia of the fingertips and cyanosis
- dead freight — an amount owed by a contractor who charters space in a ship but fails to occupy it fully.
- defederalize — to shift the functions or powers of (an agency, service, etc.) from the jurisdiction of the federal government to that of state or local government: to defederalize construction loans.
- defibrillate — to stop fibrillation of (the heart), as by the use of electric current
- deflagrating — Present participle of deflagrate.
- deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
- deflationary — A deflationary economic policy or measure is one that is intended to or likely to cause deflation.
- deformalized — Simple past tense and past participle of deformalize.
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
- dibenzofuran — an organic compound (C12H8O) composed of two benzene rings fused to a central furan ring
- differentiae — Plural form of differentia.
- differential — of or relating to difference or diversity.
- diffrangible — capable of being diffracted
- disfranchise — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- disqualifier — One who, or that which, disqualifies.
- disregardful — neglectful; careless.
- draft animal — an animal used for pulling heavy loads.
- drift anchor — a sea anchor or drag.
- east african — of or relating to East Africa or its inhabitants
- effiguration — a detailed and elaborate description of something