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12-letter words containing f, r, e, s, l

  • familiarizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of familiarize.
  • familiarness — commonly or generally known or seen: a familiar sight.
  • farcicalness — The property of being farcical.
  • farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
  • farthingales — Plural form of farthingale.
  • farthingless — without a farthing, having no money
  • fatherliness — The property of being fatherly.
  • fearlessness — without fear; bold or brave; intrepid.
  • federal case — a matter that falls within the jurisdiction of a federal court or a federal law-enforcement agency.
  • federalistic — an advocate of federalism.
  • fergus falls — a city in W central Minnesota.
  • ferrel's law — the law that wind is deflected to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere, derived from the application of the Coriolis effect to air masses.
  • ferris wheel — an amusement ride consisting of a large upright wheel rotating on a fixed stand and having seats around its rim suspended freely so that they remain right side up as they revolve.
  • ferrosilicon — a ferroalloy containing up to 95 percent silicon.
  • festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
  • fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
  • field circus — A derogatory pun on "field service". The field service organisation of any hardware manufacturer, but especially DEC. There is an entire genre of jokes about DEC field circus engineers: Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer with a flat tire? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. Q: How can you recognise a DEC field circus engineer who is out of gas? A: He's changing one tire at a time to see which one is flat. See Easter egging for additional insight on these jokes. There is also the "Field Circus Cheer" (from the plan file for DEC on MIT-AI): Maynard! Maynard! Don't mess with us! We're mean and we're tough! If you get us confused We'll screw up your stuff. (DEC's service HQ is located in Maynard, Massachusetts).
  • field sports — sports carried on in the open countryside, such as hunting, shooting, or fishing
  • file request — 1. The FidoNet equivalent of FTP, in which one BBS system automatically dials another and snarfs one or more files. Often abbreviated "FReq"; files are often announced as being "available for FReq" in the same way that files are announced as being "available for/by anonymous FTP" on the Internet. 2. The act of getting a copy of a file by using the File Request option of the BBS mailer.
  • file-sharing — File-sharing is a method of distributing computer files, for example files containing music, among a large number of users.
  • filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
  • filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
  • fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
  • filter press — an apparatus used for filtration consisting of a set of frames covered with filter cloth on both sides, between which the liquid to be filtered is pumped
  • finger lakes — group of long, narrow glacial lakes in WC N.Y.
  • fire marshal — an official heading a bureau for the prevention or investigation of fires.
  • firelighters — Plural form of firelighter.
  • fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
  • fisherpeople — Plural form of fisherperson.
  • fixture list — a list of the games that a team is scheduled to play
  • flabbergasts — Plural form of flabbergast.
  • flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
  • flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
  • flagellators — Plural form of flagellator.
  • flammiferous — flame-producing
  • flash memory — Computers. a type of reprogrammable memory that retains information even with the power turned off.
  • flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
  • flash-freeze — quick-freeze.
  • flatterously — in a flatterous manner
  • flavorlessly — In a flavorless way.
  • fleet prison — (formerly) a London prison, esp used for holding debtors
  • fleet street — a street in central London, England: location of many newspaper offices; often used figuratively to mean the entire British newspaper world.
  • flesh colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person
  • fleur-de-lis — a heraldic device somewhat resembling three petals or floral segments of an iris tied by an encircling band.
  • fleur-de-lys — fleur-de-lis (defs 1, 2).
  • flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
  • flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
  • flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
  • flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
  • flittermouse — bat2 (def 1).
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