12-letter words containing f, e, r, o, l
- fourfoldness — the quality of consisting of four parts
- fourteenthly — in (the) fourteenth place
- fowl cholera — a specific, acute, diarrheal disease of fowls, especially chickens, caused by a bacterium, Pasteurella multocida.
- fox squirrel — any of several North American arboreal squirrels varying in color and of an exceptionally large size.
- free balloon — a balloon, often equipped to carry passengers, that drifts with air currents and whose ascent and descent are controlled by the release of ballast and buoyant gas.
- free on rail — (of a consignment of goods) delivered to a railway station and loaded onto a train without charge to the buyer
- free-for-all — a fight, argument, contest, etc., open to everyone and usually without rules.
- freezer foil — a type of tinfoil used to wrap food that is to be frozen
- frictionless — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
- frolicsomely — In a frolicsome manner.
- front loader — a washing machine with a door at the front which opens one side of the drum into which washing is placed
- 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).
- 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.
- fuel poverty — the state of being unable to afford to heat one's home adequately
- full powered — (of a vessel) relying on engines for propulsion without assistance from sails.
- funeral home — an establishment where the dead are prepared for burial or cremation, where the body may be viewed, and where funeral services are sometimes held.
- furazolidone — a nitrofuran, C 8 H 7 N 3 O 5 , that is used in the treatment of giardiasis, and bacterial gastroenteritis and dysentery.
- galeniferous — Of a mineral or deposit that contains galena.
- galley proof — a proof, originally one set from type in a galley, taken before the material has been made up into pages and usually printed as a single column of type with wide margins for marking corrections.
- gambrel roof — a gable roof, each side of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one. Compare mansard (def 1).
- gelatiniform — Having the form of gelatin.
- gillyflowers — Plural form of gillyflower.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- globeflowers — Plural form of globeflower.
- gonfaloniers — Plural form of gonfalonier.
- gradeflation — grade inflation.
- griseofulvin — an antibiotic, C 17 H 17 ClO 6 , obtained from a species of Penicillium, used in the treatment of ringworm and other fungous infections of the skin.
- half brother — brother (def 2).
- half serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- half-brother — brother (def 2).
- half-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- half-drowned — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- half-serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- hexafluoride — a fluoride containing six atoms of fluorine.
- high profile — a deliberately conspicuous manner of living or operating.
- high-profile — prominent publicly
- hollow-forge — to produce (a tube or vessel) by trepanning a hole in a forging and expanding it with further forging on a mandrel.
- hostile fire — an unintentional fire, from which any resulting loss can be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to friendly fire).
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrosulfide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hyperflexion — Anatomy. the act of bending a limb. the position that a limb assumes when it is bent.
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- ill-informed — lacking adequate or proper knowledge or information, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects: The public is ill-informed of the danger.
- imperforable — not able to be perforated
- inflorescent — Of, pertaining to or causing inflorescence.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- informercial — infomercial.