12-letter words containing f, i, s, t
- fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
- fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
- fishing boat — vessel: for fishing
- fishing port — a town which has a lot of fishing boats
- fissicostate — having divided or separated ribs
- fissipalmate — (of birds) having the toes lobed or partially webbed.
- fissirostral — having a broad, deeply cleft beak or bill, as the swallows and goatsuckers.
- fitness room — a room with gym equipment in it
- fitness test — a test to see how fit someone is
- fitted sheet — a sheet with ends that are elasticated and shaped to fit tightly over a mattress
- 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
- fixed assets — any long-term asset, as a building, tract of land, or patent.
- fixed system — a system of solmization which assigns the names ut (or do), re, mi, fa, sol, la, si (or ti) to the degrees of the major scale of C
- fixture list — a list of the games that a team is scheduled to play
- flabagasting — Present participle of flabagast.
- flag station — a railroad station where trains stop only when a flag or other signal is displayed or when passengers are to be discharged.
- flageoletist — Someone who plays the flageolet.
- flagitiously — In a flagitious manner.
- flame stitch — an ornamental stitch, used on bedspreads, upholstery fabrics, and the like, producing rows of ogees in various colors.
- fleet prison — (formerly) a London prison, esp used for holding debtors
- fleetingness — passing swiftly; vanishing quickly; transient; transitory: fleeting beauty; a fleeting glance.
- flesh-eating — habitually eating flesh; carnivorous
- flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
- flight strip — Aeronautics. a strip of cleared land used as an emergency runway for aircraft. runway.
- flittermouse — bat2 (def 1).
- float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
- flour sifter — a container in which flour is sifted
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- fluctuations — Plural form of fluctuation.
- fluid assets — assets that are in the form of cash or easily convertible into cash
- fluorimeters — Plural form of fluorimeter.
- fluosilicate — a salt of fluosilicic acid.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- flux density — the magnetic, radiant, or electric flux per unit of cross-sectional area.
- flying start — a start, as in sailboat racing, in which the entrants begin moving before reaching the starting line.
- flying visit — A flying visit is a visit that only lasts a very short time.
- foam plastic — a kind of light cellular plastic made by creating bubbles of gas in the liquid material and solidifying it: often used as an insulator
- folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
- folk society — an often small, homogeneous, and isolated community or society functioning chiefly through primary contacts and strongly attached to its traditional ways of living.
- folkloristic — the traditional beliefs, legends, customs, etc., of a people; lore of a people.
- folliculitis — inflammation of hair follicles.
- 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.
- food fascist — a person who shows extreme, intolerant views in relation to food
- food stylist — a person whose job is to arrange food in an attractive way for professional photographs or broadcasts.
- foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
- foot soldier — an infantryman.
- footslogging — Present participle of footslog.
- footsoldiers — Plural form of footsoldier.
- for instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.