12-letter words containing f, r, e, a, n
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- fire balloon — a montgolfier.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- fire curtain — safety curtain.
- fire hydrant — a hydrant for use in extinguishing fires.
- fire station — a building in which firefighting apparatus and usually fire department personnel are housed; firehouse.
- fire walking — a religious rite in which people walk barefoot over white-hot ashes, stones, etc
- firing range — range (def 5).
- flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
- flannelboard — a flannel-covered surface to which other flannel pieces, as letters of the alphabet, numbers, etc., adhere merely by contact, used mainly in schools as a visual aid.
- flat-grained — (of sawed lumber) having the annual rings at an angle of less than 45° with the broader surfaces.
- flatteringly — In a flattering manner.
- flavoprotein — an enzyme, containing riboflavin and linked chemically with a protein, active in the oxidation of foods in animal cells.
- flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
- floor-manage — to act as or in the manner of a floor manager.
- flow pattern — The flow pattern is the way in which fluids move through a reactor.
- fluoranthene — (organic compound) A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of a benzene ring attached to each of the rings of a naphthalene molecule; it is carcinogenic, and is a product of incomplete combustion.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
- fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
- for a change — contrary to the norm
- for a season — for a while
- for a wonder — to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
- 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.
- foraminifera — any chiefly marine protozoan of the sarcodinian order Foraminifera, typically having a linear, spiral, or concentric shell perforated by small holes or pores through which pseudopodia extend.
- forbearances — Plural form of forbearance.
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- fore and aft — situated at or toward the front, as compared with something else.
- fore-and-aft — located along or parallel to a line from the stem to the stern.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- forebearance — Misspelling of forbearance.
- forehandedly — Prudently, with thrift and foresight.
- foreign-flag — (of a vessel or aircraft) having a registry under a nationality other than one's own: rivalry between U.S.-flag freighters and foreign-flag ships.
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- forensically — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
- foreordained — to ordain or appoint beforehand.
- foreordinate — foreordain.
- forestalling — Present participle of forestall.
- foretriangle — the triangular area formed by the deck, foremast, and headstay of a sailing vessel
- forked chain — branched chain.
- fornicatress — (obsolete) A woman guilty of fornication.
- forsakenness — past participle of forsake.
- fort kearney — a former fort in S Nebraska, near Kearney: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
- fortepianist — the player of a fortepiano
- forward line — the soldiers at the forward most position in an army force
- fotheringhay — a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.