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12-letter words containing f, o, e, i

  • fare-dodging — the practice of trying to travel on public transport without paying the fare
  • fashiousness — the quality of being fashious; troublesomeness
  • favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
  • feel no pain — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
  • feldspathoid — Also, feldspathoidal. of or relating to a group of minerals similar in chemical composition to certain feldspars except for a lower silica content.
  • felicitation — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
  • felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
  • fellow being — if you refer to someone as a fellow being, you are emphasizing that you and they are human beings and have things in common
  • fellowshiped — Simple past tense and past participle of fellowship.
  • feminisation — Alternative spelling of feminization.
  • feminization — The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.
  • fenestration — the design and disposition of windows and other exterior openings of a building.
  • fennoscandia — region in N Europe, including Scandinavia, Finland, and the part of NW Russia west of the White Sea
  • fermentation — the act or process of fermenting.
  • ferric oxide — a dark-red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, Fe 2 O 3 , occurring naturally, as hematite and rust, or synthesized: used chiefly as a pigment, as a mordant, as a coating for magnetic recording tape, and in the manufacture of polishing compounds.
  • ferrite core — a ferrite magnetic core used in a core memory.
  • ferrocyanide — a salt of ferrocyanic acid, as potassium ferrocyanide, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 .
  • ferrofluidic — Of or pertaining to a ferrofluid.
  • ferrokinesis — (parapsychology) The ability to mentally manipulate iron and other metals.
  • ferroniobium — An important alloy of iron and niobium.
  • ferrosilicon — a ferroalloy containing up to 95 percent silicon.
  • festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
  • fetoproteins — Plural form of fetoprotein.
  • fianchettoed — Simple past tense and past participle of fianchetto.
  • fiber optics — the branch of optics that deals with the transmission of light through transparent fibers, as in the form of pulses for the transmission of data or communications, or through fiber bundles for the transmission of images.
  • fiberization — the process or practice of breaking into fibres
  • fibre optics — optical fibre
  • fibrinogenic — producing fibrin.
  • fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
  • fictionalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of fictionalize.
  • fictionalize — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
  • 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 cornet — a commander of burgher troops called up in time of war or in an emergency, esp during the 19th century
  • field hockey — a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.
  • field ration — ration issued and authorized for troops in the field.
  • field sports — sports carried on in the open countryside, such as hunting, shooting, or fishing
  • field theory — a detailed mathematical description of the distribution and movement of matter under the influence of one or more fields.
  • field-holler — a cry employing falsetto, portamento, and sudden changes of pitch, used in African-American work songs, later integrated into the techniques of the blues
  • fifty-second — next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
  • file footage — film footage already on file; stock footage of crowds, cityscapes, football games, etc.
  • filet mignon — a small, tender round of steak cut from the thick end of a beef tenderloin.
  • final notice — last warning before legal action
  • find oneself — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
  • fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
  • fingerflower — purple foxglove.
  • fire balloon — a montgolfier.
  • fire company — a company of firefighters.
  • fire control — technical and sometimes automatic supervision of artillery or naval gunfire on a target, as for range, elevation, etc.
  • fire station — a building in which firefighting apparatus and usually fire department personnel are housed; firehouse.
  • fire support — support given by artillery and aircraft to infantry and armored vehicles.
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