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12-letter words containing f, a, r, n, e, t

  • iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
  • krafft-ebing — Richard [rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
  • 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.
  • left-brained — having the left brain dominant, therefore being more adept at logic, calculation, language, and other thought processes or skills usually associated with the left brain.
  • life partner — one member of a monogamous relationship.
  • lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
  • manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • manufacturer — a person, group, or company that owns or runs a manufacturing plant.
  • manufactures — Plural form of manufacture.
  • midafternoon — the part of the afternoon centering approximately on three o'clock; the period approximately halfway between noon and sunset.
  • misfeaturing — distorting the features
  • misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
  • neoformation — a new and abnormal growth of tissue; tumor; neoplasm.
  • nitrate film — film stock using a base of cellulose nitrate: extremely flammable and tending to erode at a relatively early age.
  • noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
  • nonfederated — not federated
  • over-inflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
  • overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
  • overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
  • patent flour — a fine grade of flour, consisting chiefly of the inner part of the endosperm.
  • pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
  • perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
  • perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
  • petrifaction — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • preferential — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
  • prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
  • prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
  • preformation — previous formation.
  • putrefaction — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
  • quarterfinal — of or relating to the contest or round preceding the semifinal one.
  • raman effect — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
  • rat-infested — (of a place or vessel) that has many rats
  • reflationary — economy: relating to reflation
  • reformatting — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
  • refoundation — an act of refounding
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • self-reliant — relying on oneself or on one's own powers, resources, etc.
  • sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
  • soft chancre — chancroid.
  • sorbefacient — inducing absorption
  • stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
  • stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
  • superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
  • tank fighter — a boxer known for false shows of being knocked down or out in bouts the results of which have been prearranged.
  • ternary form — a musical form in three sections, with the third usually an exact repetition of the first.
  • terraforming — to alter the environment of (a celestial body) in order to make capable of supporting terrestrial life forms.
  • thereinafter — afterward in that document.
  • thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
  • titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.
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