12-letter words containing i, n, f, r, e
- finger paint — paint children apply with fingers
- finger tight — made as tight as possible by hand
- finger-paint — a jellylike paint, used chiefly by children in painting, usually with their fingers.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- fingerflower — purple foxglove.
- fingerprints — Plural form of fingerprint.
- fire balloon — a montgolfier.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- fire control — technical and sometimes automatic supervision of artillery or naval gunfire on a target, as for range, elevation, etc.
- fire curtain — safety curtain.
- fire hydrant — a hydrant for use in extinguishing fires.
- fire setting — an ancient method of shattering rock by building a fire against it so as to cause it to split as a result of uneven internal stresses.
- fire station — a building in which firefighting apparatus and usually fire department personnel are housed; firehouse.
- fire walking — a religious rite in which people walk barefoot over white-hot ashes, stones, etc
- firefighting — a person who fights destructive fires.
- fireproofing — the act or process of rendering fireproof.
- firing order — the sequence of ignition in the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine
- firing range — range (def 5).
- first finger — the finger next to the thumb; index finger
- first person — the grammatical person used by a speaker in statements referring to himself or herself (first person singular) or to a group including himself or herself (first person plural)
- firstnighter — a person who often or usually attends the theater, opera, etc., on opening night.
- fisherperson — A fisherman or fisherwoman.
- fishmonger's — a shop that sells fish
- fitness room — a room with gym equipment in it
- five fingers — any of certain species of potentilla having leaves of five leaflets, as Potentilla canadensis.
- five hundred — a variety of euchre in which a joker and widow are included, the object being to score 500 points first.
- flat-grained — (of sawed lumber) having the annual rings at an angle of less than 45° with the broader surfaces.
- flatteringly — In a flattering manner.
- flavoprotein — an enzyme, containing riboflavin and linked chemically with a protein, active in the oxidation of foods in animal cells.
- fleet prison — (formerly) a London prison, esp used for holding debtors
- flegenheimer — Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") 1902–35, U.S. gangster.
- flickeringly — In a flickering manner.
- flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
- flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
- flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- fluoresceine — Alternative spelling of fluorescein.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
- fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- flyfishermen — Plural form of flyfisherman.
- flying lemur — either of two lemurlike mammals, Cynocephalus variegatus, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, or C. volans, of the Philippines, having broad folds of skin on both sides of the body to aid in gliding from tree to tree: now rare.
- flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
- foetoprotein — Alternative spelling of fetoprotein.
- folding rule — a rule composed of light strips of wood joined by rivets so as to be foldable, all the opening and closing parts being in parallel planes.
- for instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- for-instance — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- foraminifera — any chiefly marine protozoan of the sarcodinian order Foraminifera, typically having a linear, spiral, or concentric shell perforated by small holes or pores through which pseudopodia extend.