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12-letter words containing f, o, r

  • facilitators — Plural form of facilitator.
  • facilitatory — That serves to facilitate.
  • factor group — quotient group.
  • factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
  • factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
  • factory acts — laws relating to factories
  • factory farm — a farm in which animals are bred and fattened using modern industrial methods
  • factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
  • factory work — work in a factory
  • fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
  • fall forward — (communications)   A feature of a modem protocol where two modems which fall back to a lower speed because of data corruption can later return to the higher speed if the connection improves.
  • fall through — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
  • fall webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
  • falling door — flap door (def 1).
  • false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
  • family court — court of domestic relations.
  • faradization — to stimulate or treat (muscles or nerves) with induced alternating electric current (distinguished from galvanize).
  • fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
  • fare-dodging — the practice of trying to travel on public transport without paying the fare
  • farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
  • farm to fork — noting or relating to fresh, locally sourced food sold to local consumers or restaurants: farm-to-table meats and seasonal vegetables.
  • farm-to-fork — noting or relating to fresh, locally sourced food sold to local consumers or restaurants: farm-to-table meats and seasonal vegetables.
  • fascia-board — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
  • fast forward — advance rapidly through
  • fast neutron — a neutron produced by nuclear fission that has lost little energy by collision; a neutron with a kinetic energy in excess of 0.1 MeV
  • fast reactor — a nuclear reactor using little or no moderator, fission being caused by fast neutrons
  • fast-forward — a function of an audio or video recorder or player, as a cassette deck or DVR, that allows the content to be advanced rapidly.
  • fast-growing — growing very quickly
  • fata morgana — Meteorology. a mirage consisting of multiple images, as of cliffs and buildings, that are distorted and magnified to resemble elaborate castles, often seen near the Straits of Messina.
  • favorability — The quality or degree of being viewed favorably.
  • favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
  • favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
  • fearsomeness — causing fear: a fearsome noise.
  • feather shot — fine bean shot.
  • featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
  • feed-forward — A multi-layer perceptron network in which the outputs from all neurons (see McCulloch-Pitts) go to following but not preceding layers, so there are no feedback loops.
  • fenestration — the design and disposition of windows and other exterior openings of a building.
  • fennelflower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Nigella, of the buttercup family, especially N. sativa, the seeds of which are used, especially in the East, as a condiment and medicine.
  • fermentation — the act or process of fermenting.
  • fernando póo — Bioko
  • 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.
  • fianarantsoa — a city in E central Madagascar.
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