12-letter words containing r, s, f
- enfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of enfranchise.
- enfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enfranchise.
- equisetiform — having the form of equisetum
- fabrications — Plural form of fabrication.
- facial scrub — a beauty product or treatment which cleanses and exfoliates the skin of the face
- facilitators — Plural form of facilitator.
- factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
- factory acts — laws relating to factories
- factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
- fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
- fair-skinned — having pale skin; pale-complexioned
- fairy lights — Fairy lights are small, coloured electric lights that are hung up as decorations, for example on a Christmas tree.
- fairy shrimp — any member of the crustacean order Anostraca, characterized by an elongate trunk with more than 20 segments and the absence of a carapace, typically found swimming ventral side up in fresh water.
- faits divers — brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational, lurid, etc.
- falling star — an incandescent meteor; a shooting star.
- false aralia — any of several Polynesian shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Dizygotheca, of the ginseng family, having palmately compound, mottled leaves and often grown as a houseplant.
- false arrest — arrest or detention of a person contrary to or unauthorized by law.
- false cirrus — a type of thick cirrus cloud spreading from the top of a cumulonimbus cloud
- false colour — colour used in a computer or photographic display to help in interpreting the image, as in the use of red to show high temperatures and blue to show low temperatures in an infrared image converter
- false friend — a word or expression in one language that, because it resembles one in another language, is often wrongly taken to have the same meaning, for example, the French agenda which means diary, not agenda
- falsehearted — Alternative spelling of false-hearted.
- familiarised — Simple past tense and past participle of familiarise.
- familiarizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of familiarize.
- familiarness — commonly or generally known or seen: a familiar sight.
- farcicalness — The property of being farcical.
- farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
- farthingales — Plural form of farthingale.
- farthingless — without a farthing, having no money
- fascia-board — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
- fascicularly — in a fascicular manner
- fast forward — advance rapidly through
- 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 reactor — a nuclear reactor using little or no moderator, fission being caused by fast neutrons
- fast-forward — a function of an audio or video recorder or player, as a cassette deck or DVR, that allows the content to be advanced rapidly.
- fast-growing — growing very quickly
- fast-tracker — of or relating to the fast track.
- father's day — a day, usually the third Sunday in June, set aside in honor of fathers.
- fatherliness — The property of being fatherly.
- 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
- fearlessness — without fear; bold or brave; intrepid.
- fearsomeness — causing fear: a fearsome noise.
- feather shot — fine bean shot.
- feather star — a free-swimming crinoid.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- featherheads — Plural form of featherhead.
- featheriness — The state or quality of being feathery.
- federal case — a matter that falls within the jurisdiction of a federal court or a federal law-enforcement agency.
- federalistic — an advocate of federalism.
- fence-sitter — a person who remains neutral or undecided in a controversy.