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12-letter words containing f, i, l, a

  • black africa — Black Africa is the part of Africa to the south of the Sahara Desert.
  • black friday — the day after the US Thanksgiving Day in late November, regarded as the start of the Christmas shopping season
  • black-figure — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the 7th and 6th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by silhouetted figures painted in black slip on a red clay body, details incised into the design, and a two-dimensional structure of form and space.
  • blind flange — a disk for closing the end of a pipe, having holes for bolting it to a flange.
  • blue catfish — a large freshwater catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, that is a popular food fish in the states of the Mississippi River valley.
  • bluefin tuna — the largest tuna (Thunnus thynnus): it has bright red flesh and is important as a game and food fish
  • bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
  • buffalo bill — nickname of William Frederick Cody. 1846–1917, US showman who toured Europe and the US with his famous Wild West Show
  • buffalo bird — a cowbird, Molothrus ater, of North America.
  • buffalo fish — any of a genus (Ictiobus) of large, humpbacked, freshwater sucker fishes found in North America
  • bull mastiff — a large powerful breed of dog with a short usually fawn or brindle coat, developed by crossing the bulldog with the mastiff
  • burj khalifa — a slender tapering skyscraper in Dubai; completed in 2009; the world's tallest man-made structure, standing at 828m (2716 ft)
  • cafe au lait — coffee with milk
  • calorie-free — containing no calories
  • camouflaging — Present participle of camouflage.
  • candlefishes — Plural form of candlefish.
  • 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.
  • cardinalfish — any of the perchlike fishes of the family Apogonidae, many species of which are bright red with black markings.
  • cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
  • central-fire — center-fire.
  • chill factor — windchill factor
  • chinese leaf — the edible leaves of a Chinese cabbage
  • cigar flower — the common name for a small, shrubby plant, Cuphea ignea, of the loosestrife family, native to Mexico and Jamaica, grown as an ornamental and houseplant: named for its red tubular flowers that resemble cigars.
  • classifiable — to arrange or organize by classes; order according to class.
  • clerofascist — A cleric supporting fascism or advocating a synthesis of religion and fascism.
  • cliff-hanger — a melodramatic or adventure serial in which each installment ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment.
  • cliffhangers — Plural form of cliffhanger.
  • cliffhanging — Present participle of cliffhang.
  • coat of mail — a protective garment made of linked metal rings (mail) or of overlapping metal plates; hauberk
  • conferential — Of or pertaining to a conference.
  • confessional — A confessional is the small room in a church where Christians, especially Roman Catholics, go to confess their sins.
  • confidential — Information that is confidential is meant to be kept secret or private.
  • configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
  • conformality — (mathematics) The condition (of a map) of being conformal.
  • containerful — As much as a container can hold.
  • corticofugal — (of a nerve fiber) originating in and running from the cerebral cortex.
  • council flat — a flat built or owned by a local council
  • craniofacial — relating to both the cranium and the face
  • crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
  • crinkle leaf — a disease of plants, characterized by puckering, mottling, and distortion of the leaves, caused by any of several viruses.
  • crop failure — a failure of crops to yield sufficient food, etc, to maintain a community or to provide a surplus to sell
  • curvifoliate — having leaves curved or bent back
  • cut and fill — a process of localized gradation whereby material eroded from one place is deposited a short distance away.
  • cutlass fish — any compressed, ribbonlike fish of the genus Trichiurus, having daggerlike teeth.
  • cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
  • damselfishes — Plural form of damselfish.
  • dandrufflike — Resembling or characteristic of dandruff.
  • decalcifying — Present participle of decalcify.
  • declassified — to remove the classification from (information, a document, etc.) that restricts access in terms of secrecy, confidentiality, etc. Compare classification (def 5).
  • declassifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declassify.
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