12-letter words containing f, r, e, s
- mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree
- moschiferous — giving off or producing musk
- mournfulness — The property of being mournful.
- murfreesboro — a city in central Tennessee: battle of Stone River (or Murfreesboro) 1862.
- muscle fiber — one of the structural cells of a muscle.
- muscle fibre — any of the numerous elongated contractile cells that make up striated muscle
- mutessarifat — a province governed by a mutessarif
- neckerchiefs — Plural form of neckerchief.
- nefud desert — a desert in N Saudi Arabia: areas of reddish sand. About 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km).
- neurofibrils — Plural form of neurofibril.
- ninety-first — next after the ninetieth; being the ordinal number for 91.
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- of few words — taciturn, who rarely speaks
- off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
- office hours — hours when a business is open
- offset paper — paper used in a printing method in which the impression is made onto an intermediate surface, such as a rubber blanket, which transfers it to the paper
- offset press — a printing press used in the offset process, whereby a printing the impression is made onto an intermediate surface, such as a rubber blanket, which transfers it to the paper
- ostrich fern — a tall North American fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, with large mature leaves that resemble ostrich plumes, a popular landscaping plant whose curled new leaves, called fiddleheads, are eaten as a vegetable.
- over-stuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- overfineness — excessive fineness
- overfinished — having an excessively polished finish
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- overfocussed — too focussed
- overfondness — excessive affection
- overfullness — The state of being excessively or abnormally full.
- oversimplify — make too simple
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- pacific rose — a large variety of eating apple from New Zealand, with sweet flesh
- parcel shelf — flat storage panel in a vehicle
- parsley fern — a small bright green tufted European fern, Cryptogramma crispa, that grows on acid scree and rock in uplands
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
- past perfect — pluperfect.
- pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
- perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- personifying — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- pfund series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- postfracture — taking place after a fracture
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
- prebreakfast — occurring before breakfast, of or pertaining to the period before breakfast
- prespecified — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- press office — a section of a government department or other organization responsible for dealing with the press
- pressed felt — Pressed felt is a material made from compressed fibers and used as a filter.