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12-letter words containing l, o, e, f

  • festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
  • fictionalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of fictionalize.
  • fictionalize — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
  • fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
  • field cornet — a commander of burgher troops called up in time of war or in an emergency, esp during the 19th century
  • field hockey — a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.
  • field ration — ration issued and authorized for troops in the field.
  • field sports — sports carried on in the open countryside, such as hunting, shooting, or fishing
  • field theory — a detailed mathematical description of the distribution and movement of matter under the influence of one or more fields.
  • field-holler — a cry employing falsetto, portamento, and sudden changes of pitch, used in African-American work songs, later integrated into the techniques of the blues
  • file footage — film footage already on file; stock footage of crowds, cityscapes, football games, etc.
  • filet mignon — a small, tender round of steak cut from the thick end of a beef tenderloin.
  • final notice — last warning before legal action
  • find oneself — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
  • fingerflower — purple foxglove.
  • fire balloon — a montgolfier.
  • fire control — technical and sometimes automatic supervision of artillery or naval gunfire on a target, as for range, elevation, etc.
  • fisherpeople — Plural form of fisherperson.
  • fishing pole — a long, slender rod of wood or other material with a line and hook fastened to one end for use in catching fish.
  • flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
  • flabelliform — Shaped like a fan; flabellate.
  • 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.
  • flagellation — the act or process of flagellating.
  • flagellators — Plural form of flagellator.
  • flagellatory — relating to flagellation
  • flagelliform — long, slender, and flexible, like the lash of a whip.
  • flageoletist — Someone who plays the flageolet.
  • 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.
  • flannelmouth — a person whose speech is thick, slow, or halting.
  • 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
  • flatterously — in a flatterous manner
  • flavoprotein — an enzyme, containing riboflavin and linked chemically with a protein, active in the oxidation of foods in animal cells.
  • flavorlessly — In a flavorless way.
  • fleet prison — (formerly) a London prison, esp used for holding debtors
  • fleet-footed — able to run fast.
  • flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
  • flesh colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person
  • flexuousness — The state or condition of being flexuous.
  • flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
  • flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
  • flip-flopped — shod in flip-flops; wearing flip-flops
  • flip-flopper — a person who makes a complete change of policy, opinion, etc
  • flittermouse — bat2 (def 1).
  • float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
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