12-letter words containing f, e, r, o, t
- gersdorffite — a mineral, sulfide-arsenide of nickel, NiAsS, occurring in metallic, light-gray cubes.
- gift voucher — gift certificate.
- goofy-footer — a surfboard rider or snowboarder who stands with the right foot forward instead of the left foot forward
- 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 brother — brother (def 2).
- half-brother — brother (def 2).
- head for sth — If you a have a head for something, you can deal with it easily. For example, if you have a head for figures, you can do arithmetic easily, and if you have a head for heights, you can climb to a great height without feeling afraid.
- headforemost — headfirst (def 1).
- heart of oak — a brave person
- herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
- heterografts — Plural form of heterograft.
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
- hit the roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
- hostile fire — an unintentional fire, from which any resulting loss can be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to friendly fire).
- housefathers — Plural form of housefather.
- 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.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hyperfiction — nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.
- imperfection — an imperfect detail; flaw: a law full of imperfections.
- imperforated — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
- imperforates — Plural form of imperforate.
- inflorescent — Of, pertaining to or causing inflorescence.
- inter-office — functioning or communicating between the offices of a company or organization; within a company: an interoffice memo.
- interfemoral — situated between the thighs
- interfoliate — to interleave
- interfrontal — situated between the frontal bones
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- irreflection — lack of careful or long consideration
- jeffersonite — (mineralogy) A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
- large-format — of or relating to a camera with an image area of 5 inches by 4 inches or more
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
- life support — equipment to sustain a patient's life
- life-support — of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.
- looked-after — (of children) brought up by the state in institutions because their parents are dead or not able to care for them properly
- loosestrifes — Plural form of loosestrife.
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
- mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
- memory farts — (jargon, humour) The flatulent sounds that some MS-DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory at boot time.
- midafternoon — the part of the afternoon centering approximately on three o'clock; the period approximately halfway between noon and sunset.
- mifepristone — an antigestational drug, C 29 H 35 NO 2 , that prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall by blocking the action of progesterone.
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree
- moire effect — the appearance, when two regularly spaced sets of lines are superimposed, of a new set of lines (moiré pattern) passing through the points where the original lines cross at small angles.
- mother craft — a spaceship providing facilities and supplies for a number of smaller craft, or for astronauts
- motherfucker — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- neoformation — a new and abnormal growth of tissue; tumor; neoplasm.
- neutron flux — the rate of flow of neutrons through a specified area