12-letter words containing f, r, e, t
- tank fighter — a boxer known for false shows of being knocked down or out in bouts the results of which have been prearranged.
- taper relief — (in Britain) a system of relief from capital gains tax under which the percentage of a chargeable gain considered taxable is reduced for each whole year (from April 1998) that the asset was held by the vendor
- target rifle — a rifle designed especially for shooting at targets.
- tax-deferred — noting or providing income that is not taxed until a later time.
- telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
- tender offer — a public offer to purchase stock of a corporation from its shareholders at a certain price within a stated time limit, often in an effort to win control of the company.
- 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.
- terrifically — extraordinarily great or intense: terrific speed.
- terrifyingly — to fill with terror or alarm; make greatly afraid.
- testificator — a person who witnesses
- the big four — a small powerful group, as of banks, companies, etc, esp the four largest banks in Britain (Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, and NatWest)
- the fair sex — women collectively
- the far east — the countries of E Asia, usually including China, Japan, North and South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines: sometimes extended to include all territories east of Afghanistan
- the far left — the more extreme supporters or advocates of social, political, or economic change, reform, or revolution designed to promote the greater freedom, power, welfare, or comfort of the common people
- the far west — the area of the United States west of the Great Plains
- the flickers — the cinema
- the frizzies — the condition of having frizzy hair
- the red flag — a socialist song, written by James Connell (1852–1929), Irish political activist, in 1889
- the-firebird — a ballet (1910) with music by Stravinsky.
- thereinafter — afterward in that document.
- third finger — the finger next to the little finger; ring finger.
- thoroughfare — a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
- thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
- tick trefoil — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Desmodium, of the legume family, having trifoliolate leaves and jointed pods with hooked hairs by which they adhere to objects.
- tickler file — a file consisting of memoranda, notices, electronic signals, or the like that serves to remind the user of matters that must be attended to.
- tie-off rail — trim rail.
- tin-fluoride — stannous fluoride.
- titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.
- to a frazzle — absolutely; completely (esp in the phrase burnt to a frazzle)
- to open fire — If you open fire on someone, you start shooting at them.
- to your feet — If you get or rise to your feet, you stand up.
- tongue graft — whip graft.
- torrefaction — to subject to fire or intense heat; parch, roast, or scorch.
- trace fossil — a fossilized track, trail, burrow, boring, or other structure in sedimentary rock that records the presence or behavior of the organism that made it.
- tracker fund — finance: type of savings account
- tractor feed — Computers. a mechanism for aligning and transporting paper for a printer by means of pins that catch in perforations along the edges of the paper.
- traffic cone — conical road markers
- trans female — a person who was born male but whose gender identity is female.
- transfection — the insertion into a cell of a bacterial plasmid that contains a foreign virus or genetic material.
- transfer box — A transfer box is a gear system that divides the power between the front and rear axles of a four-wheel drive system.
- transfer fee — a sum of money paid by one football club to another for a transferred player
- transfer rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
- transfer tax — a transaction fee imposed on the transfer of title to property
- transferable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- transference — the act or process of transferring.
- transfermium — having an atomic number greater than 100, the atomic number of fermium.
- transferring — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- treble staff — a staff, bearing a treble clef.
- tree of life — a tree in the Garden of Eden that yielded food giving everlasting life. Gen 2:9; 3:22.