12-letter words containing o, f, c, n, s
- discomfiting — to confuse and deject; disconcert: to be discomfited by a question.
- disconfirmed — Simple past tense and past participle of disconfirm.
- disinfection — to cleanse (rooms, wounds, clothing, etc.) of infection; destroy disease germs in.
- dysfunctions — Plural form of dysfunction.
- edifications — Plural form of edification.
- efflorescent — efflorescing; blossoming.
- efflorescing — Present participle of effloresce.
- enforcements — Plural form of enforcement.
- fabrications — Plural form of fabrication.
- factionalism — of a faction or factions.
- factionalist — of a faction or factions.
- factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- fascinations — Plural form of fascination.
- fashion icon — a person or thing that is very well known as being highly fashionable
- fennoscandia — region in N Europe, including Scandinavia, Finland, and the part of NW Russia west of the White Sea
- ferrosilicon — a ferroalloy containing up to 95 percent silicon.
- fictionalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of fictionalize.
- fifty-second — next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
- first cousin — cousin (def 1).
- fluctuations — Plural form of fluctuation.
- fluoresceine — Alternative spelling of fluorescein.
- fluorescence — the emission of radiation, especially of visible light, by a substance during exposure to external radiation, as light or x-rays. Compare phosphorescence (def 1).
- fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
- food science — the study of the nature of foods and the changes that occur in them naturally and as a result of handling and processing.
- 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.
- forbearances — Plural form of forbearance.
- forcefulness — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
- forcibleness — The quality of being forcible.
- forensically — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
- fornications — Plural form of fornication.
- fornicatress — (obsolete) A woman guilty of fornication.
- fort collins — a city in N Colorado.
- fort jackson — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in N central South Carolina, NE of Columbia.
- fort pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
- forty-second — next after the forty-first; being the ordinal number for 42.
- four-corners — a point in the SW U.S., at the intersection of 37° N latitude and 109° W longitude, where the boundaries of four states—Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico—meet: the only such point in the U.S.
- francophones — Plural form of francophone.
- french doors — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- french shore — either of two stretches of coastline inhabited mainly by Francophone Canadians: the W coast of Newfoundland and the SW coast of Nova Scotia between Yarmouth and Digby.
- 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 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.
- frictionless — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
- frondescence — the process or period of putting forth leaves, as a tree, plant, or the like.
- frontispiece — an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
- 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).
- functionless — Lacking a function.
- fundusectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
- furunculosis — the condition characterized by the presence of boils.
- gasification — Action of gasifying.