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12-letter words containing f, e, r

  • first person — the grammatical person used by a speaker in statements referring to himself or herself (first person singular) or to a group including himself or herself (first person plural)
  • first reader — the elected official of a church or society who conducts the services and meetings and reads from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and the Scriptures.
  • first strike — the initial use of nuclear weapons in a conflict, in which the attacker tries to destroy the adversary's strategic nuclear forces.
  • first-degree — of or relating to the lowest or first in a series.
  • first-grader — a child in the first grade
  • first-strike — the initial use of nuclear weapons in a conflict, in which the attacker tries to destroy the adversary's strategic nuclear forces.
  • first-termer — a person serving his or her first term, as a member of the U.S. Congress.
  • firstnighter — a person who often or usually attends the theater, opera, etc., on opening night.
  • fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
  • fisherpeople — Plural form of fisherperson.
  • fisherperson — A fisherman or fisherwoman.
  • fishmonger's — a shop that sells fish
  • fitness room — a room with gym equipment in it
  • five fingers — any of certain species of potentilla having leaves of five leaflets, as Potentilla canadensis.
  • five hundred — a variety of euchre in which a joker and widow are included, the object being to score 500 points first.
  • fixed bridge — a partial denture that is secured permanently in the mouth by being cemented to the adjacent teeth or roots.
  • fixed charge — an expense that cannot be modified.
  • fixture list — a list of the games that a team is scheduled to play
  • flabbergasts — Plural form of flabbergast.
  • flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
  • flabelliform — Shaped like a fan; flabellate.
  • flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
  • flag carrier — an airline that is locally registered in a particular country
  • flag officer — a naval officer above the rank of captain, as a fleet admiral, admiral, vice-admiral, rear admiral, or commodore, who is entitled to display a flag indicating his or her rank.
  • flagellators — Plural form of flagellator.
  • flagellatory — relating to flagellation
  • flagelliform — long, slender, and flexible, like the lash of a whip.
  • flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
  • flameproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of flameproof.
  • flameproofer — any agent which renders something flameproof
  • flamethrower — a weapon, either mounted or portable, that sprays ignited incendiary fuel for some distance.
  • flammiferous — flame-producing
  • flannelboard — a flannel-covered surface to which other flannel pieces, as letters of the alphabet, numbers, etc., adhere merely by contact, used mainly in schools as a visual aid.
  • flash memory — Computers. a type of reprogrammable memory that retains information even with the power turned off.
  • flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
  • flash-freeze — quick-freeze.
  • flat battery — power cell that has run down
  • flat-earther — a person who adheres to the idea that the earth is flat.
  • 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.
  • flatterously — in a flatterous manner
  • flavoprotein — an enzyme, containing riboflavin and linked chemically with a protein, active in the oxidation of foods in animal cells.
  • flavorlessly — In a flavorless way.
  • flea-flicker — a deceptive offensive play in which the ball is passed or transferred laterally before or after a forward pass.
  • fleet prison — (formerly) a London prison, esp used for holding debtors
  • fleet street — a street in central London, England: location of many newspaper offices; often used figuratively to mean the entire British newspaper world.
  • flegenheimer — Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") 1902–35, U.S. gangster.
  • flesh colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person
  • fleur-de-lis — a heraldic device somewhat resembling three petals or floral segments of an iris tied by an encircling band.
  • fleur-de-lys — fleur-de-lis (defs 1, 2).
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