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12-letter words containing f, r, a, c

  • laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
  • leaf-climber — a plant that climbs by using leaves specialized as tendrils
  • left bracket — (character)   "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
  • loan officer — a bank employee who helps would-be borrowers get a loan
  • lock forward — either of two players who make up the second line of the scrum and apply weight to the forwards in the front line
  • logical form — the syntactic structure that may be shared by different expressions as abstracted from their content and articulated by the logical constants of a particular logical system, esp the structure of an argument by virtue of which it can be shown to be formally valid. Thus John is tall and thin, so John is tall has the same logical form as London is large and dirty, so London is large, namely P & Q, so P
  • loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
  • lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
  • macrofossils — Plural form of macrofossil.
  • malefactress — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
  • manufactural — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • manufacturer — a person, group, or company that owns or runs a manufacturing plant.
  • manufactures — Plural form of manufacture.
  • mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
  • microfilaria — the embryonic larva of the nematode parasite Filaria or of related genera, especially of those species that cause heartworm in dogs and elephantiasis in humans.
  • microfinance — (finance) Finance that is provided to unemployed or low-income people or groups.
  • modificatory — modifying.
  • mother craft — a spaceship providing facilities and supplies for a number of smaller craft, or for astronauts
  • multifractal — (mathematics) Describing a system that is fractal in multiple ways.
  • multifurcate — forked; branching.
  • narcotraffic — Traffic in narcotics.
  • no match for — If one person or thing is no match for another, they are unable to compete successfully with the other person or thing.
  • noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
  • nonolfactory — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
  • north africa — the northern part of Africa, especially the region north of the tropical rain forest and comprised of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and that part of Egypt west of the Gulf of Suez.
  • north-facing — facing towards the north
  • nuclear fuel — Physics. fissile or fertile material that undergoes fission in a nuclear reactor.
  • nuclear-free — A nuclear-free place is a place where nuclear energy or nuclear weapons are forbidden.
  • off the rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
  • off-the-rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
  • office party — a party or informal social gathering for all the employees in a particular organization or department
  • olfactometer — a device for estimating the keenness of the sense of smell.
  • olfactometry — The study and measurement of smells.
  • olfactronics — the measurement and analysis of smells through instruments
  • organic farm — a farm where organic methods are used for agriculture and animal husbandry
  • out of reach — beyond arm's length
  • overclassify — to classify to excess
  • oxford comma — a comma between the final items in a list, often preceding the word 'and' or 'or', such as the final comma in the list newspapers, magazines, and books
  • pacific rose — a large variety of eating apple from New Zealand, with sweet flesh
  • parcel shelf — flat storage panel in a vehicle
  • pasch flower — pasqueflower
  • past perfect — pluperfect.
  • peak traffic — traffic at the time it is most busy
  • pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
  • pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
  • perfect game — a baseball game in which the same player pitches throughout the full game without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base by a base hit, base on balls, error, or any other means. Compare no-hitter.
  • perfect ream — a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
  • perfect year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
  • perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
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