12-letter words containing f, i, t, y
- federatively — from a federative point of view
- felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
- fibrinolytic — the disintegration or dissolution of fibrin, especially by enzymatic action.
- fictionality — State or quality of being fictional.
- fictitiously — created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false: fictitious names.
- field theory — a detailed mathematical description of the distribution and movement of matter under the influence of one or more fields.
- fifty-eighth — next after the fifty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 58.
- fifty-fourth — next after the fifty-third; being the ordinal number for 54.
- fifty-second — next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
- fight shy of — bashful; retiring.
- figurability — the quality of being figurable
- figuratively — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- filial piety — (in Confucianism) the important virtue and primary duty of respect, obedience, and care for one's parents and elderly family members.
- filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
- filtrability — the quality or extent of being filtrable
- fippenny bit — the Spanish half real, the value of which was about six cents.
- fire hydrant — a hydrant for use in extinguishing fires.
- firing party — a military detachment detailed to fire a salute at a funeral
- first family — a family having the highest or one of the highest social ranks in a given place.
- firth of tay — the estuary of the River Tay on the North Sea coast of Scotland. Length: 40 km (25 miles)
- fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
- 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
- flagitiously — In a flagitious manner.
- flammability — easily set on fire; combustible; inflammable.
- flatteringly — In a flattering manner.
- flightworthy — being in proper physical or mechanical condition for safe flight; airworthy: a flightworthy spacecraft.
- floatability — capable of floating; that can be floated.
- flux density — the magnetic, radiant, or electric flux per unit of cross-sectional area.
- fly-by-light — aircraft control through systems operated by optical fibres rather than mechanical rods
- fly-by-night — not reliable or responsible, especially in business; untrustworthy: a fly-by-night operation.
- 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.
- 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.
- food stylist — a person whose job is to arrange food in an attractive way for professional photographs or broadcasts.
- forestaysail — a triangular sail set on a forestay; the innermost headsail of a vessel.
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- forrest city — a city in E Arkansas.
- forthrightly — In a forthright manner.
- fortuitously — In a fortuitous manner.
- forty-eighth — next after the forty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 48.
- 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.
- fotheringhay — a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.
- fowl typhoid — a septicemic disease of fowl, especially chickens, caused by the bacterium Salmonella gallinarum and marked by fever, loss of appetite, thirst, anemic pallor of the skin of the head, and prostration.
- foxtail lily — eremurus
- fractionally — pertaining to fractions; comprising a part or the parts of a unit; constituting a fraction: fractional numbers.
- frangibility — The state or quality of being frangible.
- fraternality — Brotherliness.
- freight yard — a place on a rail network where freight trains are made up or broken up
- frenetically — In a frenetic manner.