12-letter words containing f, i, n, o, t, s
- fast-growing — growing very quickly
- fastigiation — The quality of being fastigiate.
- favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
- feminisation — Alternative spelling of feminization.
- fenestration — the design and disposition of windows and other exterior openings of a building.
- fetoproteins — Plural form of fetoprotein.
- fianarantsoa — a city in E central Madagascar.
- fictionalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of fictionalize.
- fifty-second — next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
- finalisation — The act or process of finalising.
- fire station — a building in which firefighting apparatus and usually fire department personnel are housed; firehouse.
- first cousin — cousin (def 1).
- first nation — any of the indigenous peoples or Indian communities of Canada, especially one formally recognized by the Canadian government.
- 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)
- first violin — one of the principal group of violins in an orchestra
- fishing boat — vessel: for fishing
- fishing port — a town which has a lot of fishing boats
- 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
- flag station — a railroad station where trains stop only when a flag or other signal is displayed or when passengers are to be discharged.
- fleet prison — (formerly) a London prison, esp used for holding debtors
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- fluctuations — Plural form of fluctuation.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
- folsom point — a flint point characteristic of the Folsom tradition, typically leaf-shaped and fluted, with small basal extensions, and used on a projectile, as a spear, for hunting game.
- fomentations — Plural form of fomentation.
- footslogging — Present participle of footslog.
- for instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- for-instance — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- foredestined — Simple past tense and past participle of foredestine.
- forestalling — Present participle of forestall.
- formulations — Plural form of formulation.
- fornications — Plural form of fornication.
- fornicatress — (obsolete) A woman guilty of fornication.
- fort collins — a city in N Colorado.
- fort madison — a city in SE Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- fort pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
- fortepianist — the player of a fortepiano
- forty-niners — a person, especially a prospector, who went to California in 1849 during the gold rush.
- fosphenytoin — a prodrug that produces phenytoin and is taken to prevent or treat seizures.
- foul-tasting — having a very unpleasant taste
- friction saw — a high-speed circular saw, usually toothless, that is used for cutting metals by using frictional heat to melt the material adjacent to it.
- frictionless — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
- frontiersman — a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
- frontiersmen — a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
- frontispiece — an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
- frozen stiff — feeling very cold
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- frustrations — Plural form of frustration.