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12-letter words containing f, e, n, t, o

  • fortepianist — the player of a fortepiano
  • fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • forty-niners — a person, especially a prospector, who went to California in 1849 during the gold rush.
  • forty-second — next after the forty-first; being the ordinal number for 42.
  • fosphenytoin — a prodrug that produces phenytoin and is taken to prevent or treat seizures.
  • fotheringhay — a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.
  • found object — a natural or manufactured object that is perceived as being aesthetically satisfying and exhibited as such.
  • foundationer — a person supported by funds from a foundation, or serving as a member of a foundation
  • foundry type — type cast in individual characters for setting by hand.
  • fountain pen — a pen with a refillable reservoir that provides a continuous supply of usually fluid ink to its point.
  • fountainhead — a fountain or spring from which a stream flows; the head or source of a stream.
  • fourteenthly — in (the) fourteenth place
  • fractionated — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionate.
  • freeing port — an opening in the bottom of a bulwark, for rapid drainage of a weather deck in heavy seas; scupper.
  • freight note — a document containing full particulars of goods shipped or for shipment
  • french toast — bread dipped in a batter of egg and milk and sautéed until brown, usually served with syrup or sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
  • frictionless — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
  • friend-court — amicus curiae.
  • frighten off — scare away
  • front burner — Informal. a condition or position of top priority: Put the project on the front burner and finish it as soon as possible.
  • front loader — a washing machine with a door at the front which opens one side of the drum into which washing is placed
  • front matter — all material in a book that precedes the text proper, as the title page, copyright page, table of contents, dedication, and preface.
  • front office — the executive or administrative office of a company, organization, etc.
  • front runner — a person who leads in any competition.
  • front-loaded — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
  • front-loader — a machine or appliance, as a washing machine, loaded and unloaded through an opening in the front (as distinguished from a top loader).
  • front-runner — In a competition or contest, the front-runner is the person who seems most likely to win it.
  • frontal bone — a broad membrane bone of the skull, forming the forehead and the upper portion of each orbit.
  • frontal lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the central sulcus.
  • frontbencher — (politics) one who sits on the front bench in a parliament. Typically the spokesmen for those who sit further back.
  • frontiersman — a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
  • frontiersmen — a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
  • frontispiece — an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
  • frontrunners — Plural form of frontrunner.
  • frozen stiff — feeling very cold
  • fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
  • frumentation — (in ancient Rome) a public donation of grain, often given to citizens during times of unease
  • fulton sheen — Fulton (John) 1895–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman, writer, and teacher.
  • function key — a key on a computer keyboard or terminal that, when pressed, alone or in combination with other keys, causes a specific computational or mechanical operation to be carried out.
  • functionable — functional (def 3).
  • functionless — Lacking a function.
  • fundusectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
  • fungus stone — the Canadian tuckahoe, Polyporus tuberaster, an irregularly spherical mass of fungus mycelium and earth, forming a pseudosclerotium.
  • gelatiniform — Having the form of gelatin.
  • genuflection — an act of bending the knee or touching it to the ground in reverence or worship.
  • gradeflation — grade inflation.
  • group of ten — the ten nations who met in Paris in 1961 to arrange the special drawing rights of the IMF: Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, UK, US, and West Germany
  • half section — a part that is cut off or separated.
  • half-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
  • herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
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