12-letter words containing f, l, i, e, r
- gradeflation — grade inflation.
- grand finale — the concluding portion of a performance or entertainment, as a musical show, rodeo, etc., usually spectacular and involving most or all of the prior participants.
- grape family — the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.
- griseofulvin — an antibiotic, C 17 H 17 ClO 6 , obtained from a species of Penicillium, used in the treatment of ringworm and other fungous infections of the skin.
- half serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- half-serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- hard feeling — resentment; ill will
- haulage firm — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- heffelfinger — William Walter ("Pudge") 1867–1954, U.S. football player.
- hexafluoride — a fluoride containing six atoms of fluorine.
- high profile — a deliberately conspicuous manner of living or operating.
- high-profile — prominent publicly
- hostile fire — an unintentional fire, from which any resulting loss can be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to friendly fire).
- huddersfield — a town in West Yorkshire, in N central England.
- hydrosulfide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hyperflexion — Anatomy. the act of bending a limb. the position that a limb assumes when it is bent.
- hyperinflate — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- ill-informed — lacking adequate or proper knowledge or information, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects: The public is ill-informed of the danger.
- imperforable — not able to be perforated
- in a flutter — agitated, flustered
- infiltrative — to filter into or through; permeate.
- inflorescent — Of, pertaining to or causing inflorescence.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- informercial — infomercial.
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- infraclasses — Plural form of infraclass.
- infrequently — happening or occurring at long intervals or rarely: infrequent visits.
- insufferable — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- interfemoral — situated between the thighs
- interfertile — able to interbreed.
- interfilling — a filling of materials, as brickwork between studs.
- interfluence — the action of flowing together or merging
- interfoliate — to interleave
- interfrontal — situated between the frontal bones
- interleafing — Present participle of interleaf.
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- irreflection — lack of careful or long consideration
- irreflective — Without mental reflection.
- irreformable — insusceptible to reforming influences; incorrigible.
- irreformably — in an irreformable manner
- irrefragable — not to be disputed or contested.
- irrefragably — In an irrefragable state or condition.
- isapi filter — (web) A replaceable DLL which the server calls whenever there is an HTTP request. When the filter is first loaded, it communicates to the server what sort of notifications will be accepted. After that, whenever a selected event occurs, the filter is called to process the event. Example applications of ISAPI filters include custom authentication schemes, compression, encryption, logging, traffic analysis or other request analyses.
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- kupfernickel — (archaic) cupronickel.
- lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.