12-letter words containing f, r, a, n, c
- conflagrator — (rare) One who starts a fire.
- conformality — (mathematics) The condition (of a map) of being conformal.
- conformation — the general shape or outline of an object; configuration
- conformative — (nonstandard) Tending to conform; conforming.
- confraternal — a lay brotherhood devoted to some purpose, especially to religious or charitable service.
- containerful — As much as a container can hold.
- content farm — a website that exploits the way search engines retrieve and rank pages by incorporating popular search terms and topics in its content, often with little attention to the originality, appropriateness, or quality of the subject matter, in order to elevate the ranking of its articles in online search results and attract advertisers.
- copperfasten — (transitive, historical) To protect the timbers [of a ship] with plates of copper secured with copper nails or bolts.
- coral fungus — any of a group of brightly colored fungi having erect, branching fruiting bodies that resemble coral.
- cosurfactant — a surfactant that acts in addition to another surfactant, further reducing the surface tension of a liquid
- counter-fact — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
- countershaft — an intermediate shaft that is driven by, but rotates in the opposite direction to, a main shaft, esp in a gear train
- craft centre — a large shop that sells craftwork
- craftmanship — Alternative form of craftsmanship.
- craftsperson — an artisan
- craniofacial — relating to both the cranium and the face
- crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
- crinkle leaf — a disease of plants, characterized by puckering, mottling, and distortion of the leaves, caused by any of several viruses.
- currant loaf — a loaf-shaped fruit cake containing currants
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- dancing frog — (programming, humour) A bug or glitch that only occurs for a particular user; never when the user tries to show it to anyone else. The term is derived from a Warner Brothers cartoon in which a man discovers a frog which can sing and dance; he believes this will make his fortune but the frog never performs in front of anyone else.
- disfranchise — to deprive (a person) of a right of citizenship, as of the right to vote.
- drift anchor — a sea anchor or drag.
- dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
- east african — of or relating to East Africa or its inhabitants
- enfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of enfranchise.
- enfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enfranchise.
- entrance fee — cost of admission
- fabrications — Plural form of fabrication.
- face-centred — (of a crystal) having a lattice point at the centre of each face of each unit cell as well as at the corners
- facial nerve — either one of the seventh pair of cranial nerves composed of motor fibers that control muscles of the face except those used in chewing.
- fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
- far-reaching — extending far in influence, effect, etc.: the far-reaching effect of his speech.
- farcicalness — The property of being farcical.
- febrifacient — producing fever.
- fence lizard — either of two spiny lizards, Sceloporus undulatus and S. occidentalis, of the U.S. and northern Mexico, often seen on fences.
- fer de lance — a large pit viper, Bothrops atrox, of tropical America.
- fer-de-lance — a large pit viper, Bothrops atrox, of tropical America.
- ferricyanide — a salt of ferricyanic acid, as potassium ferricyanide, K 3 Fe(CN) 6 .
- ferrocyanide — a salt of ferrocyanic acid, as potassium ferrocyanide, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 .
- feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- fire curtain — safety curtain.
- flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
- flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
- fluorocarbon — any of a class of compounds produced by substituting fluorine for hydrogen in a hydrocarbon, and characterized by great chemical stability: used chiefly as a lubricant, refrigerant, fire extinguishing agent, and in industrial and other applications in which chemical, electrical, flame, and heat resistance is essential; banned as an aerosol propellant in the U.S. because of concern about ozone layer depletion.
- for a change — contrary to the norm
- for instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- for-instance — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- forbearances — Plural form of forbearance.