12-letter words containing n, o, f, a, r
- confraternal — a lay brotherhood devoted to some purpose, especially to religious or charitable service.
- containerful — As much as a container can hold.
- content farm — a website that exploits the way search engines retrieve and rank pages by incorporating popular search terms and topics in its content, often with little attention to the originality, appropriateness, or quality of the subject matter, in order to elevate the ranking of its articles in online search results and attract advertisers.
- copperfasten — (transitive, historical) To protect the timbers [of a ship] with plates of copper secured with copper nails or bolts.
- coral fungus — any of a group of brightly colored fungi having erect, branching fruiting bodies that resemble coral.
- cosurfactant — a surfactant that acts in addition to another surfactant, further reducing the surface tension of a liquid
- counter-fact — a conditional statement the first clause of which expresses something contrary to fact, as “If I had known.”.
- countershaft — an intermediate shaft that is driven by, but rotates in the opposite direction to, a main shaft, esp in a gear train
- craftsperson — an artisan
- craniofacial — relating to both the cranium and the face
- crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
- currant loaf — a loaf-shaped fruit cake containing currants
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- dame fortune — the personification of fortune as a woman
- dancing frog — (programming, humour) A bug or glitch that only occurs for a particular user; never when the user tries to show it to anyone else. The term is derived from a Warner Brothers cartoon in which a man discovers a frog which can sing and dance; he believes this will make his fortune but the frog never performs in front of anyone else.
- deflagration — Deflagration is an explosion in which the speed of burning is lower than the speed of sound in the surroundings.
- deflationary — A deflationary economic policy or measure is one that is intended to or likely to cause deflation.
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
- dibenzofuran — an organic compound (C12H8O) composed of two benzene rings fused to a central furan ring
- draftsperson — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, especially in an architectural or engineering firm.
- drift anchor — a sea anchor or drag.
- dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
- effiguration — a detailed and elaborate description of something
- exfiltration — (military) The process of exiting an area (usually behind enemy lines or in enemy territory).
- fabrications — Plural form of fabrication.
- fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
- falling door — flap door (def 1).
- faradization — to stimulate or treat (muscles or nerves) with induced alternating electric current (distinguished from galvanize).
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- fare-dodging — the practice of trying to travel on public transport without paying the fare
- fast neutron — a neutron produced by nuclear fission that has lost little energy by collision; a neutron with a kinetic energy in excess of 0.1 MeV
- fast-growing — growing very quickly
- fata morgana — Meteorology. a mirage consisting of multiple images, as of cliffs and buildings, that are distorted and magnified to resemble elaborate castles, often seen near the Straits of Messina.
- favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
- favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
- fearsomeness — causing fear: a fearsome noise.
- fenestration — the design and disposition of windows and other exterior openings of a building.
- fermentation — the act or process of fermenting.
- fernando póo — Bioko
- ferrocyanide — a salt of ferrocyanic acid, as potassium ferrocyanide, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 .
- fianarantsoa — a city in E central Madagascar.
- fiberization — the process or practice of breaking into fibres
- fibrillation — the formation of fibrils.
- fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- field ration — ration issued and authorized for troops in the field.
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- finno-ugrian — pertaining to the Finns and the Ugrians.
- fire balloon — a montgolfier.
- fire company — a company of firefighters.