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

  • relief angle — The relief angle is the angle between a cutting tool and the workpiece it has just cut.
  • renfrewshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
  • resiniferous — yielding resin.
  • retroflexion — a bending backward.
  • ring of fire — the linear zone of seismic and volcanic activity that coincides in general with the margins of the Pacific Plate.
  • risk-benefit — involving studies, testing, etc., to establish whether the benefits, as of a course of medical treatment, outweigh the risks involved: to arrive at a risk-benefit ratio.
  • roofing felt — a type of tar paper made from glass fibre or polyester fleece impregnated with bituminous material, produced in roll form, and used in roof construction
  • running fire — a rapid discharge of firearms in succession by a line of soldiers
  • safe surfing — the practice of using security measures to protect one's computer while surfing the internet
  • safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
  • saffron rice — a dish made from white rice and flavoured with the spice saffron
  • sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • seleniferous — containing or yielding selenium.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-driving — (of a machine) operating without the guidance of a human.
  • self-insurer — one insured under self-insurance.
  • self-priming — the powder or other material used to ignite a charge.
  • self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
  • self-raising — a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocent.
  • self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
  • self-reliant — relying on oneself or on one's own powers, resources, etc.
  • self-serving — preoccupied with one's own interests, often disregarding the truth or the interests, well-being, etc., of others.
  • seminiferous — Anatomy. conveying or containing semen.
  • sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
  • serpentiform — shaped like a snake.
  • shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
  • sorbefacient — inducing absorption
  • spearfishing — any of several fishes of the genus Tetrapturus, resembling the sailfish but having the first dorsal fin much less developed: inhabiting all seas, but rare.
  • spring fever — a listless, lazy, or restless feeling commonly associated with the beginning of spring.
  • stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
  • sulfarsenide — any compound containing an arsenide and a sulfide.
  • swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
  • tank fighter — a boxer known for false shows of being knocked down or out in bouts the results of which have been prearranged.
  • terraforming — to alter the environment of (a celestial body) in order to make capable of supporting terrestrial life forms.
  • terrifyingly — to fill with terror or alarm; make greatly afraid.
  • thereinafter — afterward in that document.
  • third finger — the finger next to the little finger; ring finger.
  • tin-fluoride — stannous fluoride.
  • titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.
  • to open fire — If you open fire on someone, you start shooting at them.
  • torrefaction — to subject to fire or intense heat; parch, roast, or scorch.
  • traffic cone — conical road markers
  • transfection — the insertion into a cell of a bacterial plasmid that contains a foreign virus or genetic material.
  • transfermium — having an atomic number greater than 100, the atomic number of fermium.
  • transferring — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • trefoil knot — a knot having the form of a trefoil.
  • trench knife — a short knife for stabbing, sometimes equipped with brass knuckles as a guard, used in modern warfare in hand-to-hand combat.
  • trypaflavine — acriflavine hydrochloride.
  • twenty-first — next after the twentieth; being the ordinal number for 21.
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