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

  • federalistic — an advocate of federalism.
  • fenestration — the design and disposition of windows and other exterior openings of a building.
  • fergus falls — a city in W central Minnesota.
  • ferrel's law — the law that wind is deflected to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere, derived from the application of the Coriolis effect to air masses.
  • festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
  • 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.
  • first estate — the first of the three estates: the clergy in France; the Lords Spiritual in England. Compare estate (def 5).
  • 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
  • flabbergasts — Plural form of flabbergast.
  • flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
  • flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
  • flagellators — Plural form of flagellator.
  • flammiferous — flame-producing
  • flash memory — Computers. a type of reprogrammable memory that retains information even with the power turned off.
  • flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
  • flash-freeze — quick-freeze.
  • flatterously — in a flatterous manner
  • flavorlessly — In a flavorless way.
  • flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
  • floor sample — an appliance, piece of furniture, or other article of merchandise that has been used for display or demonstration and is usually offered at a reduced price.
  • floorwalkers — Plural form of floorwalker.
  • florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
  • flour shaker — a container, often with a perforated top, from which flour is shaken
  • flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
  • flutterballs — Plural form of flutterball.
  • flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
  • flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
  • foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
  • for a season — for a while
  • for instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
  • for starters — a person or thing that starts.
  • for-instance — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
  • forbearances — Plural form of forbearance.
  • fore-topmast — the spar or section of a pole mast serving as the topmast of a foremast on a ship.
  • fore-topsail — a topsail set on a foremast on a ship.
  • foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
  • forecastable — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
  • foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
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