12-letter words containing f, e, r, t, i, l
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- fraternalism — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
- fraternality — Brotherliness.
- freightliner — a train for transporting containerized freight.
- frenetically — In a frenetic manner.
- frictionless — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
- frightenedly — thrown into a fright; afraid; scared; terrified: a frightened child cowering in the corner.
- fritillaries — Plural form of fritillary.
- fruitfulness — producing good results; beneficial; profitable: fruitful investigations.
- full trailer — a trailer supported entirely by its own wheels.
- gelatiniform — Having the form of gelatin.
- gradeflation — grade inflation.
- hostile fire — an unintentional fire, from which any resulting loss can be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to friendly fire).
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hyperinflate — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- in a flutter — agitated, flustered
- infiltrative — to filter into or through; permeate.
- inflorescent — Of, pertaining to or causing inflorescence.
- infrequently — happening or occurring at long intervals or rarely: infrequent visits.
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- interfemoral — situated between the thighs
- interfertile — able to interbreed.
- interfilling — a filling of materials, as brickwork between studs.
- interfluence — the action of flowing together or merging
- interfoliate — to interleave
- interfrontal — situated between the frontal bones
- interleafing — Present participle of interleaf.
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- irreflection — lack of careful or long consideration
- irreflective — Without mental reflection.
- isapi filter — (web) A replaceable DLL which the server calls whenever there is an HTTP request. When the filter is first loaded, it communicates to the server what sort of notifications will be accepted. After that, whenever a selected event occurs, the filter is called to process the event. Example applications of ISAPI filters include custom authentication schemes, compression, encryption, logging, traffic analysis or other request analyses.
- lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- left fielder — the player whose position is left field.
- left-brained — having the left brain dominant, therefore being more adept at logic, calculation, language, and other thought processes or skills usually associated with the left brain.
- life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
- life partner — one member of a monogamous relationship.
- 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.
- lifestreamer — a person who provides an online record of his or her life, either by means of live video footage or via an online collection of social network updates, blogs, and photos
- lighter fuel — the fuel used in a cigarette or cigar lighter
- 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)
- mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- mud filtrate — Mud filtrate is the liquid part of the mud which can pass through a medium and become separated from the mudcake.
- multifurcate — forked; branching.
- nitrate film — film stock using a base of cellulose nitrate: extremely flammable and tending to erode at a relatively early age.
- old favorite — If you refer to something as an old favorite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.