12-letter words containing f, a, v, i
- a devil of a — Devil can be used to emphasize what you think about someone or something. For example, if you say that someone is a devil of a nuisance, you mean that they are very annoying. If you say that something is a devil of a problem, you mean that it is a very difficult problem.
- affirmatives — Plural form of affirmative.
- afflictively — in a distressing, troublesome, or afflictive manner
- agave family — the plant family Agavaceae, characterized by herbaceous or woody plants having rhizomes, a basal cluster of toothed, sword-shaped leaves, and a tall, dense spike of flowers, including the agave, century plant, dracaena, sansevieria, sisal, and yucca.
- alluvial fan — a fan-shaped accumulation of silt, sand, gravel, and boulders deposited by fast-flowing mountain rivers when they reach flatter land
- archive file — a single computer file that contains one or more files that have been compressed
- arfvedsonite — a type of hornblende with the composition Na3(Fe,Mg)4FeSi8O22(OH)2
- average life — the average time that an unstable particle or nucleus survives before it decays.
- axis of evil — North Korea, Iraq, and Iran when considered together as a perceived threat to world stability
- bioflavonoid — any of a group of biologically active flavone compounds that may help maintain the blood's capillary walls, reducing the likelihood of hemorrhaging: widely found in plants, esp. citrus fruits
- boniface vii — antipope a.d. 974, 984–985.
- carving fork — a large, two-tined fork with a metal guard to protect the hand, used to hold meat in place as it is being carved
- confirmative — serving to confirm; corroborative.
- conformative — (nonstandard) Tending to conform; conforming.
- curvifoliate — having leaves curved or bent back
- facial nerve — either one of the seventh pair of cranial nerves composed of motor fibers that control muscles of the face except those used in chewing.
- facilitative — to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
- faits divers — brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational, lurid, etc.
- fall in love — become infatuated
- false gavial — a SE Asian crocodile, Tomistoma schlegeli, similar to but smaller than the gavial
- family leave — a leave of absence from work in order to have or take care of a baby or to care for an ailing family member.
- fan vaulting — a system of fan vaults.
- fancy diving — diving competition from a springboard into water, the contestants being judged chiefly by their grace and control in executing a specified series of dives in a prescribed manner.
- favorability — The quality or degree of being viewed favorably.
- 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.
- federatively — from a federative point of view
- ferdinand vi — 1713–59, king of Spain 1746–59 (son of Philip V).
- fermentative — tending to produce or undergo fermentation.
- festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
- 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.
- five nations — (formerly) a confederacy of North American Indian peoples living mainly in and around present-day New York state, consisting of the Cayugas, Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, and Senecas
- five-and-ten — Also called five-and-ten-cent store [fahyv-uh n-ten-sent] /ˈfaɪv ənˈtɛnˌsɛnt/ (Show IPA), five-and-dime [fahyv-uh n-dahym] /ˈfaɪv ənˈdaɪm/ (Show IPA), dime store, ten-cent store. a store offering a wide assortment of inexpensive items, formerly costing five or ten cents, for personal and household use.
- flavoprotein — an enzyme, containing riboflavin and linked chemically with a protein, active in the oxidation of foods in animal cells.
- fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
- forward dive — a dive from a position facing the water in which the diver jumps up from the springboard, rotating the body forward, and enters the water either headfirst or feetfirst.
- gravity feed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- halls of ivy — an institution of higher learning; university or college; the academic world.
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- in favour of — If one thing is rejected in favour of another, the second thing is done or chosen instead of the first.
- infiltrative — to filter into or through; permeate.
- isoflavonoid — (organic chemistry) Any compound, isomeric with the flavonoids, derived from 3-phenyl-1,4-benzopyrone.
- javelin fish — a fish of the genus Pomadasys of semitropical Australian seas with a long spine on its anal fin
- life savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- live in fear — You can use expressions such as to live in fear and to live in terror to indicate that someone is always thinking about an unpleasant or frightening event, because they think that it might happen.
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
- mauvaise foi — (in the philosophy of Sartre) the expression usually rendered as bad faith
- modificative — (grammar) That which modifies or qualifies, as a word or clause.
- neoflavonoid — (organic chemistry) Any compound, isomeric with the flavonoids, derived from 4-phenyl-1,2-benzopyrone.
- nonaffective — of, caused by, or expressing emotion or feeling; emotional.
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