12-letter words containing l, f, r, i, c
- flutter kick — a swimming kick in which the legs make rapid alternate up-and-down movements while the knees remain rigid, as in the crawl.
- folkloristic — the traditional beliefs, legends, customs, etc., of a people; lore of a people.
- forcibleness — The quality of being forcible.
- forensically — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
- formal logic — the branch of logic concerned exclusively with the principles of deductive reasoning and with the form rather than the content of propositions.
- fort collins — a city in N Colorado.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- fractionally — pertaining to fractions; comprising a part or the parts of a unit; constituting a fraction: fractional numbers.
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- francophilia — Alternative capitalization of Francophilia.
- frazil (ice) — tiny, round or pointed ice crystals formed in supercooled waters and prevented from coagulating by turbulence
- free radical — an atom or molecule that bears an unpaired electron and is extremely reactive, capable of engaging in rapid chain reactions that destabilize other molecules and generate many more free radicals: in the body, deactivated by antioxidants, uric acid, and certain enzyme activities.
- frenetically — In a frenetic manner.
- frictionally — In terms of friction.
- frictionless — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
- frolicsomely — In a frolicsome manner.
- full-service — offering or providing a wide range of services related to the basic line of business, as when a filling station changes tires or makes car repairs in addition to selling gasoline.
- furunculosis — the condition characterized by the presence of boils.
- horrifically — causing horror.
- hydrofluoric — of or derived from hydrofluoric acid.
- inartificial — Not artificial; natural; simple; artless.
- inflorescent — Of, pertaining to or causing inflorescence.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- informercial — infomercial.
- infraclasses — Plural form of infraclass.
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- interfluence — the action of flowing together or merging
- irreflection — lack of careful or long consideration
- irreflective — Without mental reflection.
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- kupfernickel — (archaic) cupronickel.
- lachrymiform — Shaped like a teardrop.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- leaf-climber — a plant that climbs by using leaves specialized as tendrils
- leif ericson — Leif [leef;; Icelandic leyv] /lif;; Icelandic leɪv/ (Show IPA), flourished a.d. c1000, Norse mariner: according to Icelandic saga, discoverer of Vinland (son of Eric the Red).
- line officer — a military or naval officer serving with combatant units or warships, as distinguished from a staff officer, supply officer, etc.
- loan officer — a bank employee who helps would-be borrowers get a loan
- logical form — the syntactic structure that may be shared by different expressions as abstracted from their content and articulated by the logical constants of a particular logical system, esp the structure of an argument by virtue of which it can be shown to be formally valid. Thus John is tall and thin, so John is tall has the same logical form as London is large and dirty, so London is large, namely P & Q, so P
- loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
- lumbriciform — resembling a lumbricus; wormlike
- macrofossils — Plural form of macrofossil.
- mercifulness — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
- mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
- microfibrils — Plural form of microfibril.
- microfilaria — the embryonic larva of the nematode parasite Filaria or of related genera, especially of those species that cause heartworm in dogs and elephantiasis in humans.
- microfilming — Present participle of microfilm.
- microfluidic — Of, pertaining to, or using microfluidics.
- microfossils — a fossil so small that it can be studied and identified only with a microscope.