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12-letter words containing f, e, r

  • break of day — dawn; daybreak.
  • breed of cat — type; sort; variety: The new airplane is a completely different breed of cat from any that has been designed before.
  • brickfielder — a hot wind in parts of Australia, originally applied to a wind which blew over Sydney carrying dust from the neighbouring Brickfields sand hills
  • bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
  • broken-field — of or having to do with running in which the ball carrier zigzags so as to go past defenders and avoid being tackled by them
  • brush flower — a flower or inflorescence with numerous long stamens, usually pollinated by birds or bats
  • buckler fern — any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris, such as D. dilatata (broad buckler fern): family Polypodiaceae
  • buffalo robe — a carriage robe or rug made of the skin of the bison, dressed with the hair on
  • buffaloberry — any shrub of the genus Shepherdia native to North America
  • buffel grass — grass used for pasture in Africa, India, and Australia
  • buffer force — a force separating two opposing sides
  • buffer state — A buffer state is a peaceful country situated between two or more larger hostile countries.
  • buffer stock — a stock of a commodity built up by a government or trade organization with the object of using it to stabilize prices
  • bullet-proof — Something that is bullet-proof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
  • butter knife — a knife, often with a curved tip, used for picking up butter at a table
  • buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
  • by reason of — If one thing happens by reason of another, it happens because of it.
  • by virtue of — on account of or by reason of
  • c beautifier — (cb) A Unix tool for reformatting C source code.
  • cafe curtain — a short curtain suspended directly downward from a series of rings sliding on a horizontal rod so as to cover the lower and sometimes upper portions of a window.
  • calorie-free — containing no calories
  • cam follower — the slider or roller in contact with the cam that transmits the movement dictated by the cam profile
  • campodeiform — resembling insects of the genus Campodea
  • cape-froward — Cape, a cape in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: southernmost point of mainland South America.
  • caper family — the plant family Capparidaceae (or Capparaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having alternate, simple, or palmate leaves, irregular flowers with four petals, and fruit in the form of elongated capsules or berries, including the caper and cleome.
  • carbon fiber — a very strong, lightweight synthetic fiber used in protective clothing, spacecraft components, racing shells, etc.
  • carbon fibre — a black silky thread of pure carbon made by heating and stretching textile fibres and used because of its lightness and strength at high temperatures for reinforcing resins, ceramics, and metals, esp in turbine blades and for fishing rods
  • carefreeness — without anxiety or worry.
  • carrier-free — (of a radioactive isotope) capable of functioning as a tracer without the use of a carrier.
  • cattleduffer — a cattle thief.
  • cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
  • cefoperazone — A cephalosporin antibiotic.
  • center field — the middle area of the outfield
  • central-fire — center-fire.
  • centrifugate — the denser of the centrifuged materials.
  • centrifuging — an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
  • certificated — A certificated person has been awarded a certificate to prove that they have achieved a certain level or standard.
  • certificates — Plural form of certificate.
  • chaetiferous — having bristles
  • chaff-cutter — a machine used to chop up hay and straw to make it into chaff for feeding to cattle
  • change front — to redeploy (a force in the field) so that its main weight of weapons points in another direction
  • channel surf — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
  • channel-surf — to switch TV channels repeatedly using a remote-control device, usually so as to sample brief segments of programs
  • characterful — If you describe something as characterful, you mean that it is pleasant and interesting.
  • chauffeuring — Present participle of chauffeur.
  • cheerfulness — full of cheer; in good spirits: a cheerful person.
  • chesterfield — a man's knee-length overcoat, usually with a fly front to conceal the buttons and having a velvet collar
  • chicago fire — a three-day fire in Chicago, Ill., in 1871 that largely destroyed the city and took several hundred lives.
  • chief priest — the highest ranking among a number of priests
  • chiffonniere — a worktable of the 18th century, having several tiers of shallow drawers.
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