12-letter words containing k, a, f, r
- forsakenness — past participle of forsake.
- fort jackson — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in N central South Carolina, NE of Columbia.
- fort kearney — a former fort in S Nebraska, near Kearney: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
- fort pulaski — Count Casimir [kaz-uh-meer] /ˈkæz əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1748–79, Polish patriot; general in the American Revolutionary army.
- fourses cake — a traditional English bread made with lard, dried fruit, and spices
- frank murphy — Frank, 1890–1949, U.S. statesman and jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1940–49.
- frank stella — Frank (Phillip) born 1936, U.S. painter.
- frankalmoign — a form of tenure by which religious bodies held lands, esp on condition of praying for the soul of the donor
- franked mail — official mail sent by members of Congress, the vice president, and other authorized officials. Compare frank1 (defs 6–9).
- frankenstein — a person who creates a monster or a destructive agency that cannot be controlled or that brings about the creator's ruin.
- frankfurters — Plural form of frankfurter.
- 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.
- 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.
- french chalk — a talc for marking lines on fabrics.
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- frying steak — a steak that is cooked by frying
- handkerchief — a small piece of linen, silk, or other fabric, usually square, and used especially for wiping one's nose, eyes, face, etc., or for decorative purposes.
- hauraki gulf — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, on the N coast of North Island, New Zealand.
- headkerchief — A kerchief worn on the head.
- heart of oak — a brave person
- infrakingdom — (taxonomy) A taxonomic category sometimes inserted below subkingdom.
- jesus freaks — a member of any of several fundamentalist groups of chiefly young people (Jesus people) originating in the early 1970s and emphasizing intense personal devotion to and study of Jesus Christ and His teachings.
- king-of-arms — a title of certain of the principal heralds of England and certain other kingdoms empowered by their sovereigns to grant armorial bearings.
- korsakoffian — relating to or suffering from Korsakoff's psychosis
- 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.
- left bracket — (character) "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
- lock forward — either of two players who make up the second line of the scrum and apply weight to the forwards in the front line
- looked-after — (of children) brought up by the state in institutions because their parents are dead or not able to care for them properly
- make friends — get to know people
- mark out for — to select for or note as selected for
- mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
- off the rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
- off-the-rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
- paring knife — a short-bladed kitchen knife for paring fruits and vegetables.
- parking fine — penalty fee for an offence
- peak traffic — traffic at the time it is most busy
- poodle-faker — a young man or newly commissioned officer who makes a point of socializing with women; ladies' man
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- prebreakfast — occurring before breakfast, of or pertaining to the period before breakfast
- reform flask — an English salt-glazed stoneware flask of the early 19th century formed as an effigy of one of the figures connected with the Reform Bill of 1832.
- richard korf — (person) A Professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Richard Korf received his B.S. from MIT in 1977, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1980 and 1983. From 1983 to 1985 he served as Herbert M. Singer Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Dr. Korf studies problem-solving, heuristic search and planning in artificial intelligence. He wrote "Learning to Solve Problems by Searching for Macro-Operators" (Pitman, 1985). He serves on the editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence, and the Journal of Applied Intelligence. Dr. Korf is the recipient of several awards and is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
- safe-breaker — a person who breaks open and robs safes
- safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
- sale of work — a sale of goods and handicrafts made by the members of a club, church congregation, etc, to raise money
- shelf talker — a cardboard, paper, or plastic advertisement of a product designed to be attached to a shelf on which the product is exhibited for sale.
- silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
- snake feeder — a dragonfly.
- stark effect — Physics. (often lowercase) the splitting into two or more components of the spectral lines of atoms in an electric field.
- strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.