12-letter words containing f, t
- antidandruff — preventing or treating dandruff
- antifebriles — Plural form of antifebrile.
- antifeminine — opposed to or discriminating against women or feminine characteristics or behaviour
- antifeminism — the opposition to feminism
- antifeminist — a person, movement or action opposed to feminism
- antifriction — intended to reduce friction
- antireformer — One who opposes reform.
- apfelstrudel — apple strudel
- arba kanfoth — a rectangular piece of cloth with fringes at the four corners and a hole in the center for the head, worn under the clothes by Orthodox Jewish males.
- arfvedsonite — a type of hornblende with the composition Na3(Fe,Mg)4FeSi8O22(OH)2
- artificially — made by human skill; produced by humans (opposed to natural): artificial flowers.
- artsy-fartsy — pretentiously artistic, sophisticated, etc.
- artzybasheff — Boris Mikhailovich [bawr-is mi-kahy-luh-vich,, bor-;; Russian buh-ryees myi-khahy-luh-vyich] /ˈbɔr ɪs mɪˈkaɪ lə vɪtʃ,, ˈbɒr-;; Russian bʌˈryis myɪˈxaɪ lə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1899–1965, U.S. illustrator and writer, born in Russia.
- assuefaction — the condition of being or becoming familiar with or used to something
- astroturfing — a PR tactic used in politics and advertising in which actors are paid to display overt and apparently spontaneous grassroots support for a particular product, policy, or event
- at half-mast — If a flag is flying at half-mast, it is flying from the middle of the pole, not the top, to show respect and sorrow for someone who has just died.
- auger effect — the spontaneous emission of an electron instead of a photon by an excited ion as a result of a vacancy being filled in an inner electron shell
- austin friar — one of the Hermits of St. Augustine.
- autofellatio — Oral stimulation of one's own penis.
- baffle plate — a plate or mechanical device designed to restrain or regulate the flow of a fluid, the emission of light or sound, or the distribution of sound, esp in a loudspeaker or microphone
- baffle-plate — a plate used as a baffle.
- baha'í faith — a religious system founded in 1863 by Baha'ullah, based on Babism and emphasizing the value of all religions and the spiritual unity of all mankind
- bairnsfather — Bruce. 1888–1959, British cartoonist, born in India: best known for his cartoons of the war in the trenches during World War I
- bashkirtseff — Marie, original name Marya Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva. 1858–84, Russian painter and diarist who wrote in French, noted esp for her Journal (1887)
- basification — the process of making something alkaline
- bastard file — a file of the commercial grade of coarseness between coarse and second-cut.
- battery farm — a farm that uses batteries for raising poultry
- battery fire — the firing of a battery of weapons
- battlefields — Plural form of battlefield.
- battlefronts — Plural form of battlefront.
- beatifically — bestowing bliss, blessings, happiness, or the like: beatific peace.
- beaufort sea — part of the Arctic Ocean off the N coast of North America
- beautifulest — (dated) Most beautiful; more beautiful than anyone or anything else.
- beautifuller — (obsolete) Comparative form of beautiful.
- beef extract — a soluble paste of beef or beef blood extracts.
- beefheartian — of or recalling the music of Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, an avant-garde rock/blues band (1966–1982); incorporating strange rhythms, free jazz elements, bizarre lyrics, and growling vocals
- befuddlement — to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments: politicians befuddling the public with campaign promises.
- benefactress — a female benefactor
- beneficiated — to treat (ore) to make more suitable for smelting.
- benefit club — a club whose members enjoy certain benefits, such as reduced prices for travel or sporting events
- biflagellate — having two flagella
- bifunctional — having two functions
- bindle stiff — a hobo.
- birth defect — an inherited disease or condition that a baby is born with
- birth family — one's biological parents and siblings, as contrasted with one's adoptive family.
- birth father — a biological mother (birth mother) or biological father (birth father) a biological parent.
- bit of fluff — a girl or young woman
- bit of skirt — a girl or woman
- bit stuffing — (protocol) A protocol which guarantees the receiver of synchronous data can recover the sender's clock. When the data stream sent contains a large number of adjacent bits which cause no transition of the signal, the receiver cannot adjust its clock to maintain proper synchronised reception. To eliminate the possibility of such a pathological case, when a preset number of transitionless bits have been transmitted, a bit which does cause a transition is "stuffed" (transmitted) by the sender. The receiver follows the same protocol and removes the stuffed bit after the specified number of transitionless bits, but can use the stuffed bit to recover the sender's clock. The advantage of bit stuffing is that only a bit (not a byte) is inserted in the data stream, and that only when the content of the data stream fails to provide a timing signal to the receiver. Thus very nearly 100% of the bits transported are useful data. In contrast, asynchronous transmission of data "throws away" a start bit and one or more stop bits for each data byte sent.
- black forest — wooded mountain region in SW Germany