12-letter words containing f, a, r, e, s, t
- freestanding — (of sculpture or architectural elements) unattached to a supporting unit or background; standing alone.
- french toast — bread dipped in a batter of egg and milk and sautéed until brown, usually served with syrup or sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
- frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
- fritillaries — Plural form of fritillary.
- frontiersman — a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- frustratedly — In a frustrated manner.
- frying steak — a steak that is cooked by frying
- fused quartz — glass made entirely from quartz: a form of silica glass.
- gracefullest — Superlative form of graceful.
- grandfathers — Plural form of grandfather.
- gratefulness — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
- half-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- head for sth — If you a have a head for something, you can deal with it easily. For example, if you have a head for figures, you can do arithmetic easily, and if you have a head for heights, you can climb to a great height without feeling afraid.
- headforemost — headfirst (def 1).
- heartfulness — The state or quality of being heartful.
- heterografts — Plural form of heterograft.
- housefathers — Plural form of housefather.
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- imperforates — Plural form of imperforate.
- 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.
- 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.
- leaf mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- 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
- malefactress — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
- manufactures — Plural form of manufacture.
- memory farts — (jargon, humour) The flatulent sounds that some MS-DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory at boot time.
- misfeaturing — distorting the features
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- mutessarifat — a province governed by a mutessarif
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- offset paper — paper used in a printing method in which the impression is made onto an intermediate surface, such as a rubber blanket, which transfers it to the paper
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- past perfect — pluperfect.
- perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- postfracture — taking place after a fracture
- prebreakfast — occurring before breakfast, of or pertaining to the period before breakfast
- professorate — the office or the period of service of a professor.
- protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
- quarterstaff — a former English weapon consisting of a stout pole 6 to 8 feet (1.8 to 2.4 meters) long, tipped with iron.
- rabbitfishes — Plural form of rabbitfish.
- rat-infested — (of a place or vessel) that has many rats
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- refresh rate — (hardware) (Or "vertical refresh rate", "vertical scan rate") The maximum number of frames that can be displayed on a monitor in a second, expressed in Hertz. The scan rate is controlled by the vertical sync signal generated by the video controller, ordering the monitor to position the electron gun at the upper left corner of the raster, ready to paint another frame. It is limited by the monitor's maximum horizontal scan rate and the resolution, since higher resolution means more scan lines. Increasing the refresh rate decreases flickering, reducing eye strain, but few people notice any change above 60-72 Hz.
- safety razor — a razor with a guard to prevent the blade from cutting the skin.
- salutiferous — salutary.