12-letter words containing f, a, t, e
- faithfulness — strict or thorough in the performance of duty: a faithful worker.
- faits divers — brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational, lurid, etc.
- false arrest — arrest or detention of a person contrary to or unauthorized by law.
- false bottom — a horizontal partition above the actual bottom of a box, trunk, etc., especially one forming a secret compartment.
- falsehearted — Alternative spelling of false-hearted.
- family hotel — a hotel owned by a family in which family members work
- family style — a way of serving food, as in boardinghouses and some restaurants, in which the people at the table help themselves from large dishes passed around from hand to hand
- fantasticate — to make or render fantastic.
- farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
- farthingales — Plural form of farthingale.
- farthingdale — (British, dated, 13th-19th C.) A unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre.
- farthingless — without a farthing, having no money
- fasciculated — Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
- fascinatedly — In a fascinated manner; with fascination.
- fast neutron — a neutron produced by nuclear fission that has lost little energy by collision; a neutron with a kinetic energy in excess of 0.1 MeV
- fast reactor — a nuclear reactor using little or no moderator, fission being caused by fast neutrons
- fast-selling — selling quickly and in large quantities
- fast-tracker — of or relating to the fast track.
- father image — a person substituted in one's mind for one's father and often the object of emotions felt toward the father
- father's day — a day, usually the third Sunday in June, set aside in honor of fathers.
- fatherliness — The property of being fatherly.
- fathomlessly — In a fathomless manner.
- fatigue duty — any of the mainly domestic duties performed by military personnel, esp as a punishment
- fatigue life — the number of applications of a given stress to which a sample of metal can be subjected before failing.
- fatty tissue — tissue with excessive accumulation of fat
- fault-finder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
- fayetteville — a city in S North Carolina.
- feather palm — any palm having large pinnate or bipinnate leaves, as the date palm or royal palm.
- feather shot — fine bean shot.
- feather star — a free-swimming crinoid.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- featherbrain — a foolish or giddy person; scatterbrain.
- featherheads — Plural form of featherhead.
- featheriness — The state or quality of being feathery.
- featherlight — extremely light; light as a feather.
- feature film — full-length movie
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- febrifacient — producing fever.
- fed to death — bored or annoyed
- federalistic — an advocate of federalism.
- federatively — from a federative point of view
- feel cheated — If you feel cheated, you feel that you have been let down or treated unfairly.
- feet of clay — a weakness or hidden flaw in the character of a greatly admired or respected person: He was disillusioned to find that even Lincoln had feet of clay.
- feldspathoid — Also, feldspathoidal. of or relating to a group of minerals similar in chemical composition to certain feldspars except for a lower silica content.
- feldspathose — (mineralogy) Containing feldspar.
- felicitating — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
- felicitation — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
- feminisation — Alternative spelling of feminization.
- feminization — The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.