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12-letter words containing i, s, t

  • first empire — the empire (1804–14) established in France by Napoleon Bonaparte.
  • 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 finger — the finger next to the thumb; index finger
  • first fruits — The first fruits of a project or activity are the earliest results or profits.
  • 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 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)
  • 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 school — A first school is a school for children aged between five and eight or nine.
  • first strike — the initial use of nuclear weapons in a conflict, in which the attacker tries to destroy the adversary's strategic nuclear forces.
  • first string — composed of regular members, participants, etc. (distinguished from substitute): the first-string team.
  • first violin — one of the principal group of violins in an orchestra
  • first-degree — of or relating to the lowest or first in a series.
  • first-grader — a child in the first grade
  • first-strike — the initial use of nuclear weapons in a conflict, in which the attacker tries to destroy the adversary's strategic nuclear forces.
  • first-string — composed of regular members, participants, etc. (distinguished from substitute): the first-string team.
  • first-termer — a person serving his or her first term, as a member of the U.S. Congress.
  • firstnighter — a person who often or usually attends the theater, opera, etc., on opening night.
  • fiscal agent — a person or organization serving as another's financial agent.
  • fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
  • fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
  • fishing boat — vessel: for fishing
  • fishing port — a town which has a lot of fishing boats
  • fissicostate — having divided or separated ribs
  • fissipalmate — (of birds) having the toes lobed or partially webbed.
  • fissirostral — having a broad, deeply cleft beak or bill, as the swallows and goatsuckers.
  • fitness room — a room with gym equipment in it
  • fitness test — a test to see how fit someone is
  • fitted sheet — a sheet with ends that are elasticated and shaped to fit tightly over a mattress
  • five nations — (formerly) a confederacy of North American Indian peoples living mainly in and around present-day New York state, consisting of the Cayugas, Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, and Senecas
  • fixed assets — any long-term asset, as a building, tract of land, or patent.
  • fixed system — a system of solmization which assigns the names ut (or do), re, mi, fa, sol, la, si (or ti) to the degrees of the major scale of C
  • fixture list — a list of the games that a team is scheduled to play
  • flabagasting — Present participle of flabagast.
  • flag station — a railroad station where trains stop only when a flag or other signal is displayed or when passengers are to be discharged.
  • flageoletist — Someone who plays the flageolet.
  • flagitiously — In a flagitious manner.
  • flame stitch — an ornamental stitch, used on bedspreads, upholstery fabrics, and the like, producing rows of ogees in various colors.
  • fleet prison — (formerly) a London prison, esp used for holding debtors
  • fleetingness — passing swiftly; vanishing quickly; transient; transitory: fleeting beauty; a fleeting glance.
  • flesh-eating — habitually eating flesh; carnivorous
  • flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
  • flight strip — Aeronautics. a strip of cleared land used as an emergency runway for aircraft. runway.
  • flittermouse — bat2 (def 1).
  • float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
  • flour sifter — a container in which flour is sifted
  • flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
  • fluctuations — Plural form of fluctuation.
  • fluid assets — assets that are in the form of cash or easily convertible into cash
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