12-letter words containing l, f, r
- file manager — a program that organizes and arranges files in a computer
- file request — 1. The FidoNet equivalent of FTP, in which one BBS system automatically dials another and snarfs one or more files. Often abbreviated "FReq"; files are often announced as being "available for FReq" in the same way that files are announced as being "available for/by anonymous FTP" on the Internet. 2. The act of getting a copy of a file by using the File Request option of the BBS mailer.
- file-sharing — File-sharing is a method of distributing computer files, for example files containing music, among a large number of users.
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
- filing clerk — an employee who maintains office files
- filler metal — metal supplied in the form of a welding rod, sometimes flux coated, melted by an arc or a flame into a joint between components to be joined
- fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
- film library — a collection of films, motion pictures, videodiscs, videocassettes, and any other materials stored on film.
- filter paper — porous paper used in filtering.
- 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
- filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
- filtrability — the quality or extent of being filtrable
- finger lakes — group of long, narrow glacial lakes in WC N.Y.
- fingerflower — purple foxglove.
- fire balloon — a montgolfier.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- fire control — technical and sometimes automatic supervision of artillery or naval gunfire on a target, as for range, elevation, etc.
- fire marshal — an official heading a bureau for the prevention or investigation of fires.
- fire walking — a religious rite in which people walk barefoot over white-hot ashes, stones, etc
- firelighters — Plural form of firelighter.
- firing glass — a drinking glass of the 18th century having a conical, rounded body on a thick stem and a heavy spreading foot.
- first family — a family having the highest or one of the highest social ranks in a given place.
- first of all — to start with
- first school — A first school is a school for children aged between five and eight or nine.
- first violin — one of the principal group of violins in an orchestra
- fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
- fisherpeople — Plural form of fisherperson.
- fissirostral — having a broad, deeply cleft beak or bill, as the swallows and goatsuckers.
- 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.
- flabelliform — Shaped like a fan; flabellate.
- flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
- flag carrier — an airline that is locally registered in a particular country
- flag officer — a naval officer above the rank of captain, as a fleet admiral, admiral, vice-admiral, rear admiral, or commodore, who is entitled to display a flag indicating his or her rank.
- flagellators — Plural form of flagellator.
- flagellatory — relating to flagellation
- flagelliform — long, slender, and flexible, like the lash of a whip.
- flaky pastry — variety of puff pastry
- flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
- flameproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of flameproof.
- flameproofer — any agent which renders something flameproof
- flamethrower — a weapon, either mounted or portable, that sprays ignited incendiary fuel for some distance.
- flammiferous — flame-producing
- flannelboard — a flannel-covered surface to which other flannel pieces, as letters of the alphabet, numbers, etc., adhere merely by contact, used mainly in schools as a visual aid.
- 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.
- flash memory — Computers. a type of reprogrammable memory that retains information even with the power turned off.
- flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
- flash-freeze — quick-freeze.