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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.
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