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12-letter words containing r, s, f

  • first empire — the empire (1804–14) established in France by Napoleon Bonaparte.
  • first estate — the first of the three estates: the clergy in France; the Lords Spiritual in England. Compare estate (def 5).
  • first family — a family having the highest or one of the highest social ranks in a given place.
  • first finger — the finger next to the thumb; index finger
  • first fruits — The first fruits of a project or activity are the earliest results or profits.
  • first nation — any of the indigenous peoples or Indian communities of Canada, especially one formally recognized by the Canadian government.
  • first of all — to start with
  • first person — the grammatical person used by a speaker in statements referring to himself or herself (first person singular) or to a group including himself or herself (first person plural)
  • first reader — the elected official of a church or society who conducts the services and meetings and reads from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and the Scriptures.
  • first school — A first school is a school for children aged between five and eight or nine.
  • first strike — the initial use of nuclear weapons in a conflict, in which the attacker tries to destroy the adversary's strategic nuclear forces.
  • first string — composed of regular members, participants, etc. (distinguished from substitute): the first-string team.
  • first violin — one of the principal group of violins in an orchestra
  • first-degree — of or relating to the lowest or first in a series.
  • first-grader — a child in the first grade
  • first-strike — the initial use of nuclear weapons in a conflict, in which the attacker tries to destroy the adversary's strategic nuclear forces.
  • first-string — composed of regular members, participants, etc. (distinguished from substitute): the first-string team.
  • first-termer — a person serving his or her first term, as a member of the U.S. Congress.
  • firstnighter — a person who often or usually attends the theater, opera, etc., on opening night.
  • fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
  • fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
  • fish farming — the job of rearing fish for commercial purposes
  • fisherpeople — Plural form of fisherperson.
  • fisherperson — A fisherman or fisherwoman.
  • fishing port — a town which has a lot of fishing boats
  • fishing worm — an earthworm.
  • fishmonger's — a shop that sells fish
  • fissirostral — having a broad, deeply cleft beak or bill, as the swallows and goatsuckers.
  • fitness room — a room with gym equipment in it
  • five fingers — any of certain species of potentilla having leaves of five leaflets, as Potentilla canadensis.
  • fixture list — a list of the games that a team is scheduled to play
  • flabbergasts — Plural form of flabbergast.
  • flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
  • flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
  • flagellators — Plural form of flagellator.
  • flaky pastry — variety of puff pastry
  • flammiferous — flame-producing
  • flash drying — Flash drying is a stage in a process to make something bigger, in which a paste-like feed is broken up and dried at the same time.
  • flash memory — Computers. a type of reprogrammable memory that retains information even with the power turned off.
  • flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
  • flash-freeze — quick-freeze.
  • flashforward — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
  • flatterously — in a flatterous manner
  • flavorlessly — In a flavorless way.
  • fleet prison — (formerly) a London prison, esp used for holding debtors
  • fleet street — a street in central London, England: location of many newspaper offices; often used figuratively to mean the entire British newspaper world.
  • flesh colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person
  • fleur-de-lis — a heraldic device somewhat resembling three petals or floral segments of an iris tied by an encircling band.
  • fleur-de-lys — fleur-de-lis (defs 1, 2).
  • flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
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