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12-letter words containing f, r, e, a, n

  • placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
  • preferential — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
  • prefinancing — financing arranged in advance
  • prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
  • prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
  • preformation — previous formation.
  • professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
  • profile plan — a diagrammatic fore-and-aft elevation of the hull of a vessel, showing bow and buttock lines, stations, water lines, diagonals, decks, bulwarks, etc.
  • proofreading — correction of text
  • putrefaction — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
  • quarterfinal — of or relating to the contest or round preceding the semifinal one.
  • raman effect — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
  • range finder — any of various instruments for determining the distance from the observer to a particular object, as for sighting a gun or adjusting the focus of a camera.
  • rangefinding — the act or process of determining the distance of an object from the observer
  • rat-infested — (of a place or vessel) that has many rats
  • red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
  • reflationary — economy: relating to reflation
  • reflex angle — an angle greater than 180° and less than 360°.
  • reformatting — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
  • refoundation — an act of refounding
  • relief angle — The relief angle is the angle between a cutting tool and the workpiece it has just cut.
  • roman a clef — a novel that represents historical events and characters under the guise of fiction.
  • roman-fleuve — saga (def 3).
  • run-of-paper — R.O.P.
  • safe surfing — the practice of using security measures to protect one's computer while surfing the internet
  • safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
  • saffron rice — a dish made from white rice and flavoured with the spice saffron
  • san fernando — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
  • sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-raising — a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocent.
  • self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
  • self-reliant — relying on oneself or on one's own powers, resources, etc.
  • self-renewal — the act of renewing.
  • sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
  • snake feeder — a dragonfly.
  • soft chancre — chancroid.
  • soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
  • sorbefacient — inducing absorption
  • spearfishing — any of several fishes of the genus Tetrapturus, resembling the sailfish but having the first dorsal fin much less developed: inhabiting all seas, but rare.
  • stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
  • stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
  • sulfarsenide — any compound containing an arsenide and a sulfide.
  • sulfonylurea — any of a group of oral drugs, as tolbutamide, that stimulate the pancreas to secrete more insulin, used to treat diabetes
  • superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
  • tank fighter — a boxer known for false shows of being knocked down or out in bouts the results of which have been prearranged.
  • ternary form — a musical form in three sections, with the third usually an exact repetition of the first.
  • terraforming — to alter the environment of (a celestial body) in order to make capable of supporting terrestrial life forms.
  • thereinafter — afterward in that document.
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