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12-letter words containing f, e, i, s

  • field sports — sports carried on in the open countryside, such as hunting, shooting, or fishing
  • fiendishness — The quality of being fiendish.
  • 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.
  • fifth estate — any class or group in society other than the nobility, the clergy, the middle class, and the press.
  • fifty-second — next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
  • 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 request — 1. The FidoNet equivalent of FTP, in which one BBS system automatically dials another and snarfs one or more files. Often abbreviated "FReq"; files are often announced as being "available for FReq" in the same way that files are announced as being "available for/by anonymous FTP" on the Internet. 2. The act of getting a copy of a file by using the File Request option of the BBS mailer.
  • file-sharing — File-sharing is a method of distributing computer files, for example files containing music, among a large number of users.
  • filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
  • filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
  • fillet steak — boneless cut of beef
  • fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
  • filter press — an apparatus used for filtration consisting of a set of frames covered with filter cloth on both sides, between which the liquid to be filtered is pumped
  • final clause — a clause expressing intention or purpose
  • financescape — Figuratively, the financial landscape; financial markets.
  • find oneself — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
  • finder's fee — a fee paid to a finder or agent who initiates a business transaction, usually a percentage of the money earned.
  • fines herbes — a mixture of finely chopped herbs, used to flavour omelettes, salads, 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.
  • fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
  • fingerprints — Plural form of fingerprint.
  • fire marshal — an official heading a bureau for the prevention or investigation of fires.
  • fire service — The fire service is an organization which has the job of putting out fires.
  • fire setting — an ancient method of shattering rock by building a fire against it so as to cause it to split as a result of uneven internal stresses.
  • fire station — a building in which firefighting apparatus and usually fire department personnel are housed; firehouse.
  • fire support — support given by artillery and aircraft to infantry and armored vehicles.
  • firecrackers — Plural form of firecracker.
  • firefighters — Plural form of firefighter.
  • firelighters — Plural form of firelighter.
  • first degree — People who have gained a higher qualification after completing a basic university degree such as a BA or a BSc refer to that basic degree as their first degree.
  • first empire — the empire (1804–14) established in France by Napoleon Bonaparte.
  • first estate — the first of the three estates: the clergy in France; the Lords Spiritual in England. Compare estate (def 5).
  • first finger — the finger next to the thumb; index finger
  • first person — the grammatical person used by a speaker in statements referring to himself or herself (first person singular) or to a group including himself or herself (first person plural)
  • 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 strike — the initial use of nuclear weapons in a conflict, in which the attacker tries to destroy the adversary's strategic nuclear forces.
  • first-degree — of or relating to the lowest or first in a series.
  • first-grader — a child in the first grade
  • first-strike — the initial use of nuclear weapons in a conflict, in which the attacker tries to destroy the adversary's strategic nuclear forces.
  • first-termer — a person serving his or her first term, as a member of the U.S. Congress.
  • firstnighter — a person who often or usually attends the theater, opera, etc., on opening night.
  • fiscal agent — a person or organization serving as another's financial agent.
  • fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
  • fish-bellied — (of a beam or rail) having a convex underside.
  • fisherpeople — Plural form of fisherperson.
  • fisherperson — A fisherman or fisherwoman.
  • fisheye lens — a hemispherical plano-convex lens for photographing in a full 180° in all directions in front of the camera, creating a circular image having an increasing amount of distortion from the center to the periphery.
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