12-letter words containing f, a, l, s, i
- grass family — the large plant family Gramineae (or Poaceae), characterized by mostly herbaceous but sometimes woody plants with hollow and jointed stems, narrow sheathing leaves, petalless flowers borne in spikelets, and fruit in the form of seedlike grain, and including bamboo, sugar cane, numerous grasses, and cereal grains such as barley, corn, oats, rice, rye, and wheat.
- gulf of siam — an arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina
- half section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- half-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
- half-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half-serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- halls of ivy — an institution of higher learning; university or college; the academic world.
- helium flash — the explosive burning of helium in the case of a star of low mass that occurs when the core is so dense that the matter has become degenerate. The burning causes a rapid rise in temperature until it is so high that the gas ceases to be degenerate, after which there is a rapid expansion
- iguaçú falls — a waterfall on the border between Brazil and Argentina, on the Iguaçú River: divided into hundreds of separate falls by forested rocky islands. Width: about 4 km (2.5 miles). Height: 82 m (269 ft)
- in spadefuls — in an extreme or emphatic way
- indefeasible — not defeasible; not to be annulled or made void; not forfeitable.
- indefeasibly — In an indefeasible manner.
- indefinables — Plural form of indefinable.
- infant class — (in England and Wales) a class at infant school for young schoolchildren between the ages of 5 and 7
- infiltrators — Plural form of infiltrator.
- inflamedness — The state or quality of being inflamed.
- inflammasome — (biochemistry) A multi-protein complex that is responsible for inflammatory rheumatic diseases via activation of caspases.
- inflationism — the policy or practice of inflation through expansion of currency or bank deposits.
- inflationist — an advocate of inflation through expansion of currency or bank deposits.
- influentials — Plural form of influential.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- infraclasses — Plural form of infraclass.
- insufferable — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufflation — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- isapi filter — (web) A replaceable DLL which the server calls whenever there is an HTTP request. When the filter is first loaded, it communicates to the server what sort of notifications will be accepted. After that, whenever a selected event occurs, the filter is called to process the event. Example applications of ISAPI filters include custom authentication schemes, compression, encryption, logging, traffic analysis or other request analyses.
- isoflavonoid — (organic chemistry) Any compound, isomeric with the flavonoids, derived from 3-phenyl-1,4-benzopyrone.
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- javelin fish — a fish of the genus Pomadasys of semitropical Australian seas with a long spine on its anal fin
- jawless fish — cyclostome.
- jaws of life — powerful shears used for cutting a vehicle open after a collision
- lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- latifundista — the owner of a latifundio in Latin America or Spain.
- law of sines — a law stating that the ratio of a side of a plane triangle to the sine of the opposite angle is the same for all three sides.
- life savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- lifestreamer — a person who provides an online record of his or her life, either by means of live video footage or via an online collection of social network updates, blogs, and photos
- lifting sail — a sail that when filled tends to raise the hull of a ship or boat (opposed to driving sail).
- little falls — a township in NE New Jersey.
- loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- macclesfield — a market town in NW England, in Cheshire: former centre of the silk industry; pharmaceuticals, services. Pop: 50 688 (2001)
- macrofossils — Plural form of macrofossil.
- malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
- malfunctions — Plural form of malfunction.
- manifoldness — (mathematics) multiplicity.
- mischanceful — unlucky