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12-letter words containing f, e, t, o

  • face-to-face — with the fronts or faces toward each other, especially when close together.
  • fact of life — any aspect of human existence that must be acknowledged or regarded as unalterable: Old age is a fact of life.
  • factionalize — (especially of a political party or other organized group) split or divide into factions.
  • factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
  • factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
  • factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
  • false bottom — a horizontal partition above the actual bottom of a box, trunk, etc., especially one forming a secret compartment.
  • family hotel — a hotel owned by a family in which family members work
  • fast neutron — a neutron produced by nuclear fission that has lost little energy by collision; a neutron with a kinetic energy in excess of 0.1 MeV
  • fast reactor — a nuclear reactor using little or no moderator, fission being caused by fast neutrons
  • fathomlessly — In a fathomless manner.
  • favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
  • feather shot — fine bean shot.
  • featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
  • fed to death — bored or annoyed
  • feet of clay — a weakness or hidden flaw in the character of a greatly admired or respected person: He was disillusioned to find that even Lincoln had feet of clay.
  • feldspathoid — Also, feldspathoidal. of or relating to a group of minerals similar in chemical composition to certain feldspars except for a lower silica content.
  • feldspathose — (mineralogy) Containing feldspar.
  • felicitation — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
  • felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
  • feminisation — Alternative spelling of feminization.
  • feminization — The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.
  • fenestration — the design and disposition of windows and other exterior openings of a building.
  • fermentation — the act or process of fermenting.
  • ferrite core — a ferrite magnetic core used in a core memory.
  • festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
  • fetoproteins — Plural form of fetoprotein.
  • fianchettoed — Simple past tense and past participle of fianchetto.
  • fiber optics — the branch of optics that deals with the transmission of light through transparent fibers, as in the form of pulses for the transmission of data or communications, or through fiber bundles for the transmission of images.
  • fiberization — the process or practice of breaking into fibres
  • fibre optics — optical fibre
  • fictionalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of fictionalize.
  • fictionalize — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
  • fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
  • field cornet — a commander of burgher troops called up in time of war or in an emergency, esp during the 19th century
  • field ration — ration issued and authorized for troops in the field.
  • field sports — sports carried on in the open countryside, such as hunting, shooting, or fishing
  • field theory — a detailed mathematical description of the distribution and movement of matter under the influence of one or more fields.
  • fifty-second — next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
  • file footage — film footage already on file; stock footage of crowds, cityscapes, football games, etc.
  • filet mignon — a small, tender round of steak cut from the thick end of a beef tenderloin.
  • final notice — last warning before legal action
  • fire control — technical and sometimes automatic supervision of artillery or naval gunfire on a target, as for range, elevation, etc.
  • fire station — a building in which firefighting apparatus and usually fire department personnel are housed; firehouse.
  • fire support — support given by artillery and aircraft to infantry and armored vehicles.
  • 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)
  • fissicostate — having divided or separated ribs
  • fitness room — a room with gym equipment in it
  • five nations — (formerly) a confederacy of North American Indian peoples living mainly in and around present-day New York state, consisting of the Cayugas, Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, and Senecas
  • flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
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