12-letter words containing i, n, f, a, t, r
- inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
- inflationary — of, pertaining to, reflective of, or causing inflation: inflationary prices.
- informations — (legal) Plural form of information.
- infraduction — (medicine) The turning downward of a part, especially of the eye.
- infraorbital — (anatomy) Below the orbit (of the eye).
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- interfemoral — situated between the thighs
- interfoliate — to interleave
- interfrontal — situated between the frontal bones
- interleafing — Present participle of interleaf.
- intertraffic — traffic between two or more places or people
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- krafft-ebing — Richard [rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
- lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
- left-brained — having the left brain dominant, therefore being more adept at logic, calculation, language, and other thought processes or skills usually associated with the left brain.
- life partner — one member of a monogamous relationship.
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
- malformation — faulty or anomalous formation or structure, especially in a living body: malformation of the teeth.
- midafternoon — the part of the afternoon centering approximately on three o'clock; the period approximately halfway between noon and sunset.
- misfeaturing — distorting the features
- misformation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- narcotraffic — Traffic in narcotics.
- neoformation — a new and abnormal growth of tissue; tumor; neoplasm.
- nitrate film — film stock using a base of cellulose nitrate: extremely flammable and tending to erode at a relatively early age.
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- north africa — the northern part of Africa, especially the region north of the tropical rain forest and comprised of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and that part of Egypt west of the Gulf of Suez.
- north-facing — facing towards the north
- olfactronics — the measurement and analysis of smells through instruments
- over-inflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
- perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
- perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
- petrifaction — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
- placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
- pontificator — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- preferential — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
- prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
- prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
- preformation — previous formation.
- purification — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
- putrefaction — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- quarterfinal — of or relating to the contest or round preceding the semifinal one.
- radiant flux — the time rate of flow of radiant energy.
- ramification — the act or process of ramifying.
- rat-infested — (of a place or vessel) that has many rats
- ratification — the act of ratifying; confirmation; sanction.