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12-letter words containing r, t, f

  • jeffersonite — (mineralogy) A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
  • jet aircraft — A jet aircraft is an aircraft that is powered by one or more jet engines.
  • kentish fire — prolonged clapping by an audience, especially in unison, indicating impatience or disapproval.
  • krafft-ebing — Richard [rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
  • lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
  • large-format — of or relating to a camera with an image area of 5 inches by 4 inches or more
  • laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
  • leaf mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
  • leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
  • left bracket — (character)   "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
  • left fielder — the player whose position is left field.
  • left-brained — having the left brain dominant, therefore being more adept at logic, calculation, language, and other thought processes or skills usually associated with the left brain.
  • life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
  • life partner — one member of a monogamous relationship.
  • life support — equipment to sustain a patient's life
  • life-support — of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.
  • lifestreamer — a person who provides an online record of his or her life, either by means of live video footage or via an online collection of social network updates, blogs, and photos
  • lighter fuel — the fuel used in a cigarette or cigar lighter
  • lofting iron — a club whose head has a sloped face, for lofting the ball.
  • look out for — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • looked-after — (of children) brought up by the state in institutions because their parents are dead or not able to care for them properly
  • loosestrifes — Plural form of loosestrife.
  • lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
  • malefactress — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
  • malformation — faulty or anomalous formation or structure, especially in a living body: malformation of the teeth.
  • man of straw — straw man.
  • manufactural — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • manufacturer — a person, group, or company that owns or runs a manufacturing plant.
  • manufactures — Plural form of manufacture.
  • mark out for — to select for or note as selected for
  • mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
  • memory farts — (jargon, humour)   The flatulent sounds that some MS-DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory at boot time.
  • mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
  • midafternoon — the part of the afternoon centering approximately on three o'clock; the period approximately halfway between noon and sunset.
  • mifepristone — an antigestational drug, C 29 H 35 NO 2 , that prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall by blocking the action of progesterone.
  • mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
  • misfeaturing — distorting the features
  • misformation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
  • misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
  • mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree
  • modificatory — modifying.
  • moire effect — the appearance, when two regularly spaced sets of lines are superimposed, of a new set of lines (moiré pattern) passing through the points where the original lines cross at small angles.
  • mortifyingly — In a mortifying manner; so as to cause great embarrassment.
  • mother craft — a spaceship providing facilities and supplies for a number of smaller craft, or for astronauts
  • motherfucker — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • mothproofing — Present participle of mothproof.
  • mud filtrate — Mud filtrate is the liquid part of the mud which can pass through a medium and become separated from the mudcake.
  • multifarious — having many different parts, elements, forms, etc.
  • multiflorous — bearing many flowers, as a peduncle.
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