12-letter words containing i, s, r, a
- first estate — the first of the three estates: the clergy in France; the Lords Spiritual in England. Compare estate (def 5).
- first family — a family having the highest or one of the highest social ranks in a given place.
- first nation — any of the indigenous peoples or Indian communities of Canada, especially one formally recognized by the Canadian government.
- first of all — to start with
- first reader — the elected official of a church or society who conducts the services and meetings and reads from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and the Scriptures.
- first-grader — a child in the first grade
- fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
- fish farming — the job of rearing fish for commercial purposes
- fissirostral — having a broad, deeply cleft beak or bill, as the swallows and goatsuckers.
- flammiferous — flame-producing
- flash drying — Flash drying is a stage in a process to make something bigger, in which a paste-like feed is broken up and dried at the same time.
- flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
- flooring saw — a saw having a curved edge.
- florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
- florida moss — Spanish moss.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
- flying start — a start, as in sailboat racing, in which the entrants begin moving before reaching the starting line.
- foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
- 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.
- fore-topsail — a topsail set on a foremast on a ship.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- forensically — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
- forestalling — Present participle of forestall.
- forestaysail — a triangular sail set on a forestay; the innermost headsail of a vessel.
- foretopsails — Plural form of foretopsail.
- formularizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formularize.
- formulations — Plural form of formulation.
- fornications — Plural form of fornication.
- fornicatress — (obsolete) A woman guilty of fornication.
- fort madison — a city in SE Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- fort pulaski — Count Casimir [kaz-uh-meer] /ˈkæz əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1748–79, Polish patriot; general in the American Revolutionary army.
- fortepianist — the player of a fortepiano
- forward bias — a voltage applied to a circuit or device, esp a semiconductor device, in the direction that produces the larger current
- fracastorius — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 60 miles (97 km) in diameter.
- francescatti — Zino [zee-noh] /ˈzi noʊ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1991, French violinist.
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- frankenstein — a person who creates a monster or a destructive agency that cannot be controlled or that brings about the creator's ruin.
- frankincense — an aromatic gum resin from various Asian and African trees of the genus Boswellia, especially B. carteri, used chiefly for burning as incense in religious or ceremonial practices, in perfumery, and in pharmaceutical and fumigating preparations.
- fraternalism — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
- fraternising — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
- fraternities — Plural form of fraternity.
- freakishness — The characteristic or quality of being freakish.
- free skating — a freestyle competition with no required elements, in which skaters perform an original program of jumps, spins, sequences, etc., to music of their choice.
- freestanding — (of sculpture or architectural elements) unattached to a supporting unit or background; standing alone.
- freshmanship — the state of being a freshman; the period during which a student is considered to be a freshman
- fricasseeing — Present participle of fricassee.