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12-letter words containing f, i, e, r, s

  • interdiffuse — (of two or more fluids) to diffuse mutually
  • irish coffee — a mixture of hot coffee and Irish whiskey, sweetened and topped with whipped cream.
  • iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
  • 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.
  • jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
  • jeffersonian — pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
  • jeffersonite — (mineralogy) A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
  • kentish fire — prolonged clapping by an audience, especially in unison, indicating impatience or disapproval.
  • 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.
  • leif ericson — Leif [leef;; Icelandic leyv] /lif;; Icelandic leɪv/ (Show IPA), flourished a.d. c1000, Norse mariner: according to Icelandic saga, discoverer of Vinland (son of Eric the Red).
  • 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.
  • 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
  • loosestrifes — Plural form of loosestrife.
  • loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
  • lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
  • luminiferous — producing light: the luminiferous properties of a gas.
  • make friends — get to know people
  • mercifulness — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
  • microforceps — (surgery) A very small forceps.
  • 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.
  • mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
  • misconfigure — Configure (a system or part of it) incorrectly.
  • misfeaturing — distorting the features
  • misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
  • misinference — Incorrect inference.
  • misreference — to reference (an academic work, a publication, etc) inaccurately or incorrectly
  • mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree
  • moschiferous — giving off or producing musk
  • muscle fiber — one of the structural cells of a muscle.
  • muscle fibre — any of the numerous elongated contractile cells that make up striated muscle
  • mutessarifat — a province governed by a mutessarif
  • neckerchiefs — Plural form of neckerchief.
  • neurofibrils — Plural form of neurofibril.
  • ninety-first — next after the ninetieth; being the ordinal number for 91.
  • noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
  • off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
  • office hours — hours when a business is open
  • ostrich fern — a tall North American fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, with large mature leaves that resemble ostrich plumes, a popular landscaping plant whose curled new leaves, called fiddleheads, are eaten as a vegetable.
  • overclassify — to classify to excess
  • overfineness — excessive fineness
  • overfinished — having an excessively polished finish
  • overflourish — to flourish excessively
  • oversimplify — make too simple
  • overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
  • pacific rose — a large variety of eating apple from New Zealand, with sweet flesh
  • pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
  • perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
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