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12-letter words containing f, l, s

  • fasciculated — Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
  • fascinatedly — In a fascinated manner; with fascination.
  • fascioliasis — liver-rot.
  • fast-flowing — water: rapid
  • fast-selling — selling quickly and in large quantities
  • fastidiously — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
  • fatherliness — The property of being fatherly.
  • fathomlessly — In a fathomless manner.
  • fauxmosexual — (slang) A heterosexual person who affects homosexual characteristics.
  • fearlessness — without fear; bold or brave; intrepid.
  • fecklessness — The state of being feckless.
  • federal case — a matter that falls within the jurisdiction of a federal court or a federal law-enforcement agency.
  • federalistic — an advocate of federalism.
  • feel oneself — to perceive or examine by touch.
  • feldspathoid — Also, feldspathoidal. of or relating to a group of minerals similar in chemical composition to certain feldspars except for a lower silica content.
  • feldspathose — (mineralogy) Containing feldspar.
  • felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
  • felliniesque — referring to or reminiscent of the films of Federico Fellini
  • fellowshiped — Simple past tense and past participle of fellowship.
  • fergus falls — a city in W central Minnesota.
  • ferrel's law — the law that wind is deflected to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere, derived from the application of the Coriolis effect to air masses.
  • ferris wheel — an amusement ride consisting of a large upright wheel rotating on a fixed stand and having seats around its rim suspended freely so that they remain right side up as they revolve.
  • ferrosilicon — a ferroalloy containing up to 95 percent silicon.
  • festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
  • fibrinolysin — a proteolytic enzyme, formed in the blood from plasminogen, that causes the breakdown of the fibrin in blood clots.
  • fibrinolysis — the disintegration or dissolution of fibrin, especially by enzymatic action.
  • fibroblastic — a cell that contributes to the formation of connective tissue fibers.
  • fictionalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of fictionalize.
  • fictitiously — created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false: fictitious names.
  • fiddlesticks — anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say.
  • fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
  • field circus — A derogatory pun on "field service". The field service organisation of any hardware manufacturer, but especially DEC. There is an entire genre of jokes about DEC field circus engineers: Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer with a flat tire? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer who is out of gas? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. See Easter egging for additional insight on these jokes. There is also the "Field Circus Cheer" (from the plan file for DEC on MIT-AI): Maynard! Maynard! Don't mess with us! We're mean and we're tough! If you get us confused We'll screw up your stuff. (DEC's service HQ is located in Maynard, Massachusetts).
  • field sports — sports carried on in the open countryside, such as hunting, shooting, or fishing
  • file request — 1. The FidoNet equivalent of FTP, in which one BBS system automatically dials another and snarfs one or more files. Often abbreviated "FReq"; files are often announced as being "available for FReq" in the same way that files are announced as being "available for/by anonymous FTP" on the Internet. 2. The act of getting a copy of a file by using the File Request option of the BBS mailer.
  • file-sharing — File-sharing is a method of distributing computer files, for example files containing music, among a large number of users.
  • filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
  • filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
  • fillet steak — boneless cut of beef
  • fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
  • filter press — an apparatus used for filtration consisting of a set of frames covered with filter cloth on both sides, between which the liquid to be filtered is pumped
  • final clause — a clause expressing intention or purpose
  • finalisation — The act or process of finalising.
  • find oneself — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
  • finger lakes — group of long, narrow glacial lakes in WC N.Y.
  • fire marshal — an official heading a bureau for the prevention or investigation of fires.
  • firelighters — Plural form of firelighter.
  • firing glass — a drinking glass of the 18th century having a conical, rounded body on a thick stem and a heavy spreading foot.
  • first family — a family having the highest or one of the highest social ranks in a given place.
  • first of all — to start with
  • first school — A first school is a school for children aged between five and eight or nine.
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