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12-letter words containing n, o, r, t

  • fractionally — pertaining to fractions; comprising a part or the parts of a unit; constituting a fraction: fractional numbers.
  • fractionated — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionate.
  • fractionator — Chemistry. an apparatus for fractional distillation. Compare cracker (def 10).
  • frantz fanon — Frantz (Omar) [frants oh-mahr;; French frahnts aw-mar] /frænts ˈoʊ mɑr;; French frɑ̃ts ɔˈmar/ (Show IPA), 1925–61, West Indian psychiatrist and political theorist, born in Martinique; in Algeria after 1953.
  • freeing port — an opening in the bottom of a bulwark, for rapid drainage of a weather deck in heavy seas; scupper.
  • freight note — a document containing full particulars of goods shipped or for shipment
  • 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.
  • friction rub — the sound, heard through a stethoscope, made by the rubbing together of the two inflamed layers of pericardium in patients with pericarditis or of pleura in patients with pleurisy
  • friction saw — a high-speed circular saw, usually toothless, that is used for cutting metals by using frictional heat to melt the material adjacent to it.
  • frictionally — In terms of friction.
  • frictionless — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
  • friend-court — amicus curiae.
  • frighten off — scare away
  • front bottom — the female genitals
  • front burner — Informal. a condition or position of top priority: Put the project on the front burner and finish it as soon as possible.
  • front loader — a washing machine with a door at the front which opens one side of the drum into which washing is placed
  • front matter — all material in a book that precedes the text proper, as the title page, copyright page, table of contents, dedication, and preface.
  • front office — the executive or administrative office of a company, organization, etc.
  • front runner — a person who leads in any competition.
  • front-loaded — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
  • front-loader — a machine or appliance, as a washing machine, loaded and unloaded through an opening in the front (as distinguished from a top loader).
  • front-runner — In a competition or contest, the front-runner is the person who seems most likely to win it.
  • frontal bone — a broad membrane bone of the skull, forming the forehead and the upper portion of each orbit.
  • frontal lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the central sulcus.
  • frontbencher — (politics) one who sits on the front bench in a parliament. Typically the spokesmen for those who sit further back.
  • 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.
  • frontrunning — the practice by market makers of using advance information provided by their own investment analysts before it has been given to clients
  • 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).
  • frumentation — (in ancient Rome) a public donation of grain, often given to citizens during times of unease
  • frustrations — Plural form of frustration.
  • full frontal — showing the entire front: full-frontal nudity.
  • full-frontal — showing the entire front: full-frontal nudity.
  • funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
  • galvanometer — an instrument for detecting the existence of small electric currents and determining their strength.
  • galvanometry — the method or process of determining the strength of electric currents.
  • gastrocnemii — Plural form of gastrocnemius.
  • gastronomics — the cooking style typical of a region or country
  • gastronomies — Plural form of gastronomy.
  • gastronomist — a connoisseur of good food; gourmet; epicure.
  • gastrulation — the formation of a gastrula.
  • gelatiniform — Having the form of gelatin.
  • generation c — the people who create and publish material such as blogs, podcasts, videos, etc, on the internet
  • generation o — the youthful voters who supported Barack Obama in the 2008 US Presidential election
  • generation x — the generation born between about 1966 and 1980, especially in the U.S.
  • generation y — members of the generation of people born between the early 1980s and mid-1990s who are seen as being discerning consumers with a high disposable income
  • generation z — members of the generation of people born since the mid-1990s who are seen as confident users of new technology
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