12-letter words containing l, o, a, f
- ease oneself — to urinate or defecate
- east suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk county, in E England.
- ebb and flow — tidal movement
- exfiltration — (military) The process of exiting an area (usually behind enemy lines or in enemy territory).
- exsufflation — (obsolete) A blast from beneath.
- fabulousness — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- facilitation — the act or process of facilitating.
- facilitators — Plural form of facilitator.
- facilitatory — That serves to facilitate.
- fact of life — any aspect of human existence that must be acknowledged or regarded as unalterable: Old age is a fact of life.
- factionalism — of a faction or factions.
- factionalist — of a faction or factions.
- factionalize — (especially of a political party or other organized group) split or divide into factions.
- factitiously — In a factitious manner.
- factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
- factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
- faith school — a school that provides a general education within a framework of a specific religious belief
- fall back on — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fall down on — to fail or be unsuccessful in (a job, etc.)
- fall forward — (communications) A feature of a modem protocol where two modems which fall back to a lower speed because of data corruption can later return to the higher speed if the connection improves.
- fall foul of — to come into conflict with
- fall in love — become infatuated
- fall through — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fall webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
- fallaciously — In a fallacious manner, erroneously, illogically.
- falling door — flap door (def 1).
- false bottom — a horizontal partition above the actual bottom of a box, trunk, etc., especially one forming a secret compartment.
- false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
- false indigo — any of several North American shrubs belonging to the genus Amorpha, of the legume family, especially A. fruticosa, having compound leaves with pinnate leaflets and long, dense clusters of purplish flowers.
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- family hotel — a hotel owned by a family in which family members work
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- fascioliasis — liver-rot.
- fast-flowing — water: rapid
- fastidiously — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- fathomlessly — In a fathomless manner.
- fauxmosexual — (slang) A heterosexual person who affects homosexual characteristics.
- favorability — The quality or degree of being viewed favorably.
- feel no pain — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- feet of clay — a weakness or hidden flaw in the character of a greatly admired or respected person: He was disillusioned to find that even Lincoln had feet of clay.
- feldspathoid — Also, feldspathoidal. of or relating to a group of minerals similar in chemical composition to certain feldspars except for a lower silica content.
- feldspathose — (mineralogy) Containing feldspar.
- felicitation — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
- festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
- fibrillation — the formation of fibrils.
- fibroblastic — a cell that contributes to the formation of connective tissue fibers.
- fibromyalgia — a syndrome characterized by fatigue and chronic pain in the muscles and in tissues surrounding the joints.
- fictionalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of fictionalize.
- fictionality — State or quality of being fictional.
- fictionalize — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.