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12-letter words containing f, e, r, a, n, t

  • draftsperson — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, especially in an architectural or engineering firm.
  • dwarf planet — a spherical celestial body revolving about the sun, similar to a planet but not large enough to gravitationally clear its orbital region of most or all other celestial bodies. Pluto is a dwarf planet.
  • dye transfer — a photographic printing method by which a full-color image is produced by the printing of separate cyan, magenta, and yellow images from individual gelatin relief matrices.
  • east african — of or relating to East Africa or its inhabitants
  • effiguration — a detailed and elaborate description of something
  • entrance fee — cost of admission
  • exfiltration — (military) The process of exiting an area (usually behind enemy lines or in enemy territory).
  • face-centred — (of a crystal) having a lattice point at the centre of each face of each unit cell as well as at the corners
  • fainthearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
  • fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
  • fiberization — the process or practice of breaking into fibres
  • field ration — ration issued and authorized for troops in the field.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • flow pattern — The flow pattern is the way in which fluids move through a reactor.
  • fluoranthene — (organic compound) A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of a benzene ring attached to each of the rings of a naphthalene molecule; it is carcinogenic, and is a product of incomplete combustion.
  • flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
  • for instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
  • for-instance — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
  • fore and aft — situated at or toward the front, as compared with something else.
  • fore-and-aft — located along or parallel to a line from the stem to the stern.
  • foreordinate — foreordain.
  • forestalling — Present participle of forestall.
  • foretriangle — the triangular area formed by the deck, foremast, and headstay of a sailing vessel
  • fornicatress — (obsolete) A woman guilty of fornication.
  • fort kearney — a former fort in S Nebraska, near Kearney: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
  • fortepianist — the player of a fortepiano
  • fotheringhay — a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.
  • foundationer — a person supported by funds from a foundation, or serving as a member of a foundation
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