12-letter words containing r, i, l, e, t, s
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- fluorimeters — Plural form of fluorimeter.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
- foot soldier — an infantryman.
- footsoldiers — Plural form of footsoldier.
- fore-topsail — a topsail set on a foremast on a ship.
- foresightful — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
- forestalling — Present participle of forestall.
- forestaysail — a triangular sail set on a forestay; the innermost headsail of a vessel.
- foretopsails — Plural form of foretopsail.
- fortresslike — Resembling a fortress in shape or impregnability.
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- fraternalism — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
- frictionless — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
- fritillaries — Plural form of fritillary.
- fruitfulness — producing good results; beneficial; profitable: fruitful investigations.
- gallivanters — Plural form of gallivanter.
- generalities — Plural form of generality.
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- 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.
- glomerulitis — inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney.
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- great plains — a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada.
- grossularite — a mineral, calcium aluminum garnet, Ca 3 Al 2 Si 3 O 12 , occurring in gray-white to pinkish crystals.
- heliotropism — heliotropic tendency or growth.
- hellgramites — Plural form of hellgramite.
- henley-shirt — a short- or long-sleeved pullover sport shirt, usually of cotton, with a round neckband and an often covered neckline placket.
- heortologist — a person who studies heortology
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- heteroclisis — (grammar) The presence of two or more classes of inflection in the inflectional paradigm of a noun, verb etc.
- heteroclites — Plural form of heteroclite.
- heteroplasia — the replacement of normal cells by abnormal cells, as in cancer.
- heterosocial — relating to or denoting mixed-sex social relationships
- higher still — a system of post-Standard Grade qualifications offered at five levels including Higher and Advanced Higher
- highlighters — Plural form of highlighter.
- hobble skirt — a woman's skirt that is very narrow at the bottom, causing the wearer to walk with short, mincing steps.
- horse pistol — a large pistol formerly carried by horsemen.
- horse trials — a competitive sporting event at which riders have to show their skill in dressage, show-jumping, and cross-country
- horse's tail — burro's tail.
- hostile fire — an unintentional fire, from which any resulting loss can be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to friendly fire).
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hyperplastic — Of, or relating to hyperplasia.
- hyperspatial — Pertaining to hyperspace.
- hysterically — of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
- ice crystals — ice formations
- ill-assorted — badly matched; incompatible
- illiteracies — Plural form of illiteracy.
- illustrative — serving to illustrate; explanatory: illustrative examples.