12-letter words containing l, e, s, t
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
- fillet steak — boneless cut of beef
- fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
- filter press — an apparatus used for filtration consisting of a set of frames covered with filter cloth on both sides, between which the liquid to be filtered is pumped
- firelighters — Plural form of firelighter.
- fiscal agent — a person or organization serving as another's financial agent.
- fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
- fissipalmate — (of birds) having the toes lobed or partially webbed.
- fixture list — a list of the games that a team is scheduled to play
- flabbergasts — Plural form of flabbergast.
- flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
- flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
- flagellators — Plural form of flagellator.
- flageoletist — Someone who plays the flageolet.
- flame stitch — an ornamental stitch, used on bedspreads, upholstery fabrics, and the like, producing rows of ogees in various colors.
- flat-chested — If you describe a woman as flat-chested, you mean that she has small breasts.
- flatterously — in a flatterous manner
- fleet prison — (formerly) a London prison, esp used for holding debtors
- fleet street — a street in central London, England: location of many newspaper offices; often used figuratively to mean the entire British newspaper world.
- 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.
- flittermouse — bat2 (def 1).
- flour sifter — a container in which flour is sifted
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- fluid assets — assets that are in the form of cash or easily convertible into cash
- fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
- fluorimeters — Plural form of fluorimeter.
- fluorometers — Plural form of fluorometer.
- fluosilicate — a salt of fluosilicic acid.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- flutterballs — Plural form of flutterball.
- flux density — the magnetic, radiant, or electric flux per unit of cross-sectional area.
- fly the nest — When children fly the nest, they leave their parents' home to live on their own.
- folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
- folk society — an often small, homogeneous, and isolated community or society functioning chiefly through primary contacts and strongly attached to its traditional ways of living.
- foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
- foot soldier — an infantryman.
- footlessness — the state of being footless
- footsoldiers — Plural form of footsoldier.
- fore-topsail — a topsail set on a foremast on a ship.
- forecastable — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- foresightful — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
- forest floor — the above- ground layer of a forest made up of tree roots, soil and decaying matter
- forestalling — Present participle of forestall.
- forestaysail — a triangular sail set on a forestay; the innermost headsail of a vessel.
- foretopsails — Plural form of foretopsail.
- fortresslike — Resembling a fortress in shape or impregnability.
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.