12-letter words containing f, o, r
- hyperfiction — nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.
- hyperflexion — Anatomy. the act of bending a limb. the position that a limb assumes when it is bent.
- 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.
- imperfection — an imperfect detail; flaw: a law full of imperfections.
- imperforable — not able to be perforated
- imperforated — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
- imperforates — Plural form of imperforate.
- in charge of — having responsibility for
- in course of — in the process of
- in danger of — liable to
- in favour of — If one thing is rejected in favour of another, the second thing is done or chosen instead of the first.
- in good form — fit, healthy
- in honour of — If something is arranged in honour of a particular event, it is arranged in order to celebrate that event.
- in memory of — to commemorate
- in search of — looking for, seeking
- in so far as — to the extent that
- in your face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- in-your-face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- inconformity — lack of conformity; failure or refusal to conform; nonconformity.
- infiltration — the act or process of infiltrating.
- infiltrators — Plural form of infiltrator.
- inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
- inflationary — of, pertaining to, reflective of, or causing inflation: inflationary prices.
- inflorescent — Of, pertaining to or causing inflorescence.
- infographics — Plural form of infographic.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- informations — (legal) Plural form of information.
- informercial — infomercial.
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- infraduction — (medicine) The turning downward of a part, especially of the eye.
- infrakingdom — (taxonomy) A taxonomic category sometimes inserted below subkingdom.
- infraorbital — (anatomy) Below the orbit (of the eye).
- inter-office — functioning or communicating between the offices of a company or organization; within a company: an interoffice memo.
- interfemoral — situated between the thighs
- interfoliate — to interleave
- interfrontal — situated between the frontal bones
- irish coffee — a mixture of hot coffee and Irish whiskey, sweetened and topped with whipped cream.
- iron foundry — ironworks, forgery
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- irreflection — lack of careful or long consideration
- irreformable — insusceptible to reforming influences; incorrigible.
- irreformably — in an irreformable manner
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- jaffa orange — a sweet, almost seedless variety of orange grown principally in Israel.
- jeffersonian — pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
- jeffersonite — (mineralogy) A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
- jugal furrow — (in certain insects) the crease, between the anal and jugal veins, along which the wing folds.
- juiz de fora — a city in SE Brazil, N of Rio de Janeiro.
- jury foreman — a member of a jury in a court of law who is chosen by the other members to act as spokesperson for the jury