12-letter words containing n, o, e, t, s
- fleet prison — (formerly) a London prison, esp used for holding debtors
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
- fomentations — Plural form of fomentation.
- footlessness — the state of being footless
- footsoreness — The characteristic of being footsore.
- for instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- for-instance — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- foredestined — Simple past tense and past participle of foredestine.
- foreshortens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshorten.
- forest green — Lincoln green.
- forestalling — Present participle of forestall.
- fornicatress — (obsolete) A woman guilty of fornication.
- fort pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
- fortepianist — the player of a fortepiano
- forty-niners — a person, especially a prospector, who went to California in 1849 during the gold rush.
- forty-second — next after the forty-first; being the ordinal number for 42.
- fosphenytoin — a prodrug that produces phenytoin and is taken to prevent or treat seizures.
- french toast — bread dipped in a batter of egg and milk and sautéed until brown, usually served with syrup or sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
- frictionless — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
- frontiersman — a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
- frontiersmen — a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
- frontispiece — an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
- frontrunners — Plural form of frontrunner.
- frozen stiff — feeling very cold
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- fulton sheen — Fulton (John) 1895–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman, writer, and teacher.
- functionless — Lacking a function.
- fundusectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
- fungus stone — the Canadian tuckahoe, Polyporus tuberaster, an irregularly spherical mass of fungus mycelium and earth, forming a pseudosclerotium.
- gammon steak — a thick cut of meat made from smoked or cured bacon or ham and often served with pineapple or fried egg
- gas equation — an equation that equates the product of the pressure and the volume of one mole of a gas to the product of its thermodynamic temperature and the gas constant. The equation is exact for an ideal gas and is a good approximation for real gases at low pressures
- gastrocnemii — Plural form of gastrocnemius.
- gastronomies — Plural form of gastronomy.
- gelatigenous — (archaic) Producing or yielding gelatin.
- generosities — Plural form of generosity.
- gentilitious — relating to a gens
- gentleperson — a person of good family and position; gentleman or lady.
- geomagnetism — the earth's magnetic field and associated phenomena.
- geomagnetist — someone who studies, or is an expert in, geomagnetism
- geoscientist — a specialist in earth science.
- germinations — Plural form of germination.
- gerontogeous — belonging to the Old World.
- ghostwritten — Written by a ghostwriter.
- gila monster — a large, venomous lizard, Heloderma suspectum, of the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico, covered with beadlike scales of yellow, orange, and black.
- gnathostomes — Plural form of gnathostome.
- god's plenty — an abundant or overabundant quantity.
- golden aster — any North American, asterlike, composite plant of the genus Chrysopsis, having bright, golden-yellow flower heads, as C. mariana, of the eastern U.S.