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12-letter words containing r, t, f

  • field sports — sports carried on in the open countryside, such as hunting, shooting, or fishing
  • field theory — a detailed mathematical description of the distribution and movement of matter under the influence of one or more fields.
  • fifth-grader — a student in the fifth grade of the American education system
  • fifty-fourth — next after the fifty-third; being the ordinal number for 54.
  • figurability — the quality of being figurable
  • figuratively — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
  • figure eight — figure eight.
  • figure skate — a shoe skate used in figure skating, especially one having a blade shorter than that of a racing skate, usually not extending beyond the toe or heel, and with notches or sawteeth on the curved forward edge.
  • figure-skate — to take part in figure skating
  • file request — 1. The FidoNet equivalent of FTP, in which one BBS system automatically dials another and snarfs one or more files. Often abbreviated "FReq"; files are often announced as being "available for FReq" in the same way that files are announced as being "available for/by anonymous FTP" on the Internet. 2. The act of getting a copy of a file by using the File Request option of the BBS mailer.
  • filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
  • filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
  • filler metal — metal supplied in the form of a welding rod, sometimes flux coated, melted by an arc or a flame into a joint between components to be joined
  • fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
  • filter paper — porous paper used in filtering.
  • filter press — an apparatus used for filtration consisting of a set of frames covered with filter cloth on both sides, between which the liquid to be filtered is pumped
  • filthy lucre — money: to lose one's health for the sake of filthy lucre.
  • filtrability — the quality or extent of being filtrable
  • finger paint — paint children apply with fingers
  • finger tight — made as tight as possible by hand
  • finger-paint — a jellylike paint, used chiefly by children in painting, usually with their fingers.
  • fingerprints — Plural form of fingerprint.
  • fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
  • fire control — technical and sometimes automatic supervision of artillery or naval gunfire on a target, as for range, elevation, etc.
  • fire curtain — safety curtain.
  • fire hydrant — a hydrant for use in extinguishing fires.
  • fire setting — an ancient method of shattering rock by building a fire against it so as to cause it to split as a result of uneven internal stresses.
  • fire station — a building in which firefighting apparatus and usually fire department personnel are housed; firehouse.
  • fire support — support given by artillery and aircraft to infantry and armored vehicles.
  • fire watcher — a person who watches for fires, esp those caused by aerial bombardment
  • firebreather — A performer who creates fireballs by breathing a fine mist of fuel over an open flame.
  • firefighters — Plural form of firefighter.
  • firefighting — a person who fights destructive fires.
  • firelighters — Plural form of firelighter.
  • firing party — a military detachment detailed to fire a salute at a funeral
  • first cousin — cousin (def 1).
  • first degree — People who have gained a higher qualification after completing a basic university degree such as a BA or a BSc refer to that basic degree as their first degree.
  • 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
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