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.