12-letter words containing f, a, i, r
- featherbrain — a foolish or giddy person; scatterbrain.
- featheriness — The state or quality of being feathery.
- featherlight — extremely light; light as a feather.
- feature film — full-length movie
- febrifacient — producing fever.
- federalistic — an advocate of federalism.
- federalizing — Present participle of federalize.
- federatively — from a federative point of view
- fence lizard — either of two spiny lizards, Sceloporus undulatus and S. occidentalis, of the U.S. and northern Mexico, often seen on fences.
- fenestration — the design and disposition of windows and other exterior openings of a building.
- fenfluramine — a sympathomimetic substance, C 12 H 16 F 3 N, formerly used mainly as an anorectic in the treatment of obesity but withdrawn from the market in 1997 because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
- ferdinand ii — ("the Catholic") 1452–1516, founder of the Spanish monarchy 1506: king of Sicily 1468–1516, king of Aragon 1479–1516; as Ferdinand III, king of Naples 1504–16; as King Ferdinand V, joint sovereign (with Isabella I) of Castile 1474–1504.
- ferdinand vi — 1713–59, king of Spain 1746–59 (son of Philip V).
- fermat prime — (mathematics) A prime number of the form 2^2^n + 1. Any prime number of the form 2^n+1 must be a Fermat prime. Fermat conjectured in a letter to someone or other that all numbers 2^2^n+1 are prime, having noticed that this is true for n=0,1,2,3,4. No further Fermat primes are known; several have been factorised, and several more have been proved composite without finding explicit factorisations.
- fermentation — the act or process of fermenting.
- fermentative — tending to produce or undergo fermentation.
- ferricyanide — a salt of ferricyanic acid, as potassium ferricyanide, K 3 Fe(CN) 6 .
- ferrocyanide — a salt of ferrocyanic acid, as potassium ferrocyanide, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 .
- fertilizable — Capable of being fertilized.
- ferulic acid — a compound, C 10 H 10 O 4 , found in small amounts in lants, that occurs in two isomers, one a yellow oily liquid and the other crystalline.
- festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
- 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.
- fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- fibroblastic — a cell that contributes to the formation of connective tissue fibers.
- fibromatosis — (pathology) The presence of multiple fibromas.
- fibromyalgia — a syndrome characterized by fatigue and chronic pain in the muscles and in tissues surrounding the joints.
- fibrosarcoma — a sarcoma derived from fibroblast cells, often able to generate collagen.
- fiddler crab — any small, burrowing crab of the genus Uca, characterized by one greatly enlarged claw in the male.
- 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.
- field ration — ration issued and authorized for troops in the field.
- 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.
- fifth-grader — a student in the fifth grade of the American education system
- fig marigold — any of various plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, having showy flowers of white, yellow, or pink.
- figurability — the quality of being figurable
- figuratively — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- 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 manager — a program that organizes and arranges files in a computer
- file-sharing — File-sharing is a method of distributing computer files, for example files containing music, among a large number of users.
- filler metal — metal supplied in the form of a welding rod, sometimes flux coated, melted by an arc or a flame into a joint between components to be joined
- film library — a collection of films, motion pictures, videodiscs, videocassettes, and any other materials stored on film.
- filter paper — porous paper used in filtering.
- filtrability — the quality or extent of being filtrable
- fine-grained — being of fine grain or texture, as certain types of wood, leather, etc.
- 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.