12-letter words containing o, n, e, s, f
- 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.
- foodlessness — Absence of food.
- footlessness — the state of being footless
- footsoreness — The characteristic of being footsore.
- for a season — for a while
- 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.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- foredestined — Simple past tense and past participle of foredestine.
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- forensically — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
- foreseeingly — by way of foreseeing
- foreshortens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshorten.
- forest green — Lincoln green.
- forestalling — Present participle of forestall.
- formlessness — The quality of being formless.
- fornicatress — (obsolete) A woman guilty of fornication.
- forsakenness — past participle of forsake.
- 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.
- 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.
- fourdriniers — Plural form of fourdrinier.
- fourfoldness — the quality of consisting of four parts
- 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.
- 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.
- frondiferous — Producing fronds.
- 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.
- galeniferous — Of a mineral or deposit that contains galena.
- give offense — to offend; anger, insult, etc.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- gonfaloniers — Plural form of gonfalonier.