12-letter words containing f, e, n, t, a
- fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
- faithfulness — strict or thorough in the performance of duty: a faithful worker.
- fantasticate — to make or render fantastic.
- 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
- 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-selling — selling quickly and in large quantities
- fatherliness — The property of being fatherly.
- 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.
- featherbrain — a foolish or giddy person; scatterbrain.
- featheriness — The state or quality of being feathery.
- febrifacient — producing fever.
- 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.
- fenestration — the design and disposition of windows and other exterior openings of a building.
- fermentation — the act or process of fermenting.
- fermentative — tending to produce or undergo fermentation.
- fete galante — fête champêtre.
- feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
- fianchettoed — Simple past tense and past participle of fianchetto.
- fiberization — the process or practice of breaking into fibres
- fictionalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of fictionalize.
- fictionalize — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
- field magnet — a magnet for producing a magnetic field, as in a particle accelerator or an electric motor.
- field ration — ration issued and authorized for troops in the field.
- file cabinet — A file cabinet is a piece of office furniture, usually made of metal, which has drawers in which files are kept.
- final notice — last warning before legal action
- finger paint — paint children apply with fingers
- finger-paint — a jellylike paint, used chiefly by children in painting, usually with their fingers.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- fire curtain — safety curtain.
- fire hydrant — a hydrant for use in extinguishing fires.
- fire station — a building in which firefighting apparatus and usually fire department personnel are housed; firehouse.
- fiscal agent — a person or organization serving as another's financial agent.
- 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.
- flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
- flagellating — Present participle of flagellate.
- flagellation — the act or process of flagellating.
- flannelmouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
- flat-grained — (of sawed lumber) having the annual rings at an angle of less than 45° with the broader surfaces.
- flatteringly — In a flattering manner.
- flavoprotein — an enzyme, containing riboflavin and linked chemically with a protein, active in the oxidation of foods in animal cells.
- flesh-eating — habitually eating flesh; carnivorous
- flow pattern — The flow pattern is the way in which fluids move through a reactor.