12-letter words containing f, e, r, a, c
- in your face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- in-your-face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- informercial — infomercial.
- infraclasses — Plural form of infraclass.
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- intertraffic — traffic between two or more places or people
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- jet aircraft — A jet aircraft is an aircraft that is powered by one or more jet engines.
- labour force — The labour force consists of all the people who are able to work in a country or area, or all the people who work for a particular company.
- laffer curve — a relationship postulated between tax rates and tax receipts indicating that rates above a certain level actually produce less revenue because they discourage taxable endeavors and vice versa.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- leaf-climber — a plant that climbs by using leaves specialized as tendrils
- left bracket — (character) "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
- loan officer — a bank employee who helps would-be borrowers get a loan
- loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
- malefactress — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
- manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- manufacturer — a person, group, or company that owns or runs a manufacturing plant.
- manufactures — Plural form of manufacture.
- mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
- microfinance — (finance) Finance that is provided to unemployed or low-income people or groups.
- mother craft — a spaceship providing facilities and supplies for a number of smaller craft, or for astronauts
- multifurcate — forked; branching.
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- nuclear fuel — Physics. fissile or fertile material that undergoes fission in a nuclear reactor.
- nuclear-free — A nuclear-free place is a place where nuclear energy or nuclear weapons are forbidden.
- off the rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
- off-the-rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
- office party — a party or informal social gathering for all the employees in a particular organization or department
- olfactometer — a device for estimating the keenness of the sense of smell.
- olfactometry — The study and measurement of smells.
- out of reach — beyond arm's length
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- pacific rose — a large variety of eating apple from New Zealand, with sweet flesh
- parcel shelf — flat storage panel in a vehicle
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- past perfect — pluperfect.
- peak traffic — traffic at the time it is most busy
- pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
- pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
- perfect game — a baseball game in which the same player pitches throughout the full game without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base by a base hit, base on balls, error, or any other means. Compare no-hitter.
- perfect ream — a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- perfect year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
- perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
- petrifaction — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
- petrifactive — having the ability to turn substances into stone
- placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
- postfracture — taking place after a fracture