12-letter words containing f, a, r
- 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.
- finger paint — paint children apply with fingers
- finger-paint — a jellylike paint, used chiefly by children in painting, usually with their fingers.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- finno-ugrian — pertaining to the Finns and the Ugrians.
- fire balloon — a montgolfier.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- fire brigade — a group of firefighters, especially as formed temporarily or called upon to assist a fire department in an emergency.
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- fire curtain — safety curtain.
- fire hydrant — a hydrant for use in extinguishing fires.
- 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.
- fire walking — a religious rite in which people walk barefoot over white-hot ashes, stones, etc
- fire watcher — a person who watches for fires, esp those caused by aerial bombardment
- fire-damaged — damaged by fire or in a fire
- firebreather — A performer who creates fireballs by breathing a fine mist of fuel over an open flame.
- firecrackers — Plural form of firecracker.
- firing glass — a drinking glass of the 18th century having a conical, rounded body on a thick stem and a heavy spreading foot.
- firing party — a military detachment detailed to fire a salute at a funeral
- firing range — range (def 5).
- firing squad — a military detachment assigned to execute a condemned person by shooting.
- first estate — the first of the three estates: the clergy in France; the Lords Spiritual in England. Compare estate (def 5).
- first family — a family having the highest or one of the highest social ranks in a given place.
- first nation — any of the indigenous peoples or Indian communities of Canada, especially one formally recognized by the Canadian government.
- first of all — to start with
- 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
- firth of tay — the estuary of the River Tay on the North Sea coast of Scotland. Length: 40 km (25 miles)
- fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
- fish farming — the job of rearing fish for commercial purposes
- fissirostral — having a broad, deeply cleft beak or bill, as the swallows and goatsuckers.
- fixed charge — an expense that cannot be modified.
- flabbergasts — Plural form of flabbergast.
- flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
- flabelliform — Shaped like a fan; flabellate.
- flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.