12-letter words containing s, e, l, f, i
- fillet steak — boneless cut of beef
- fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
- 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
- final clause — a clause expressing intention or purpose
- find oneself — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
- finger lakes — group of long, narrow glacial lakes in WC N.Y.
- fire marshal — an official heading a bureau for the prevention or investigation of fires.
- firelighters — Plural form of firelighter.
- fiscal agent — a person or organization serving as another's financial agent.
- fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
- fish-bellied — (of a beam or rail) having a convex underside.
- fisherpeople — Plural form of fisherperson.
- fisheye lens — a hemispherical plano-convex lens for photographing in a full 180° in all directions in front of the camera, creating a circular image having an increasing amount of distortion from the center to the periphery.
- fishing line — cord used to catch fish
- fishing pole — a long, slender rod of wood or other material with a line and hook fastened to one end for use in catching fish.
- fissipalmate — (of birds) having the toes lobed or partially webbed.
- fixture list — a list of the games that a team is scheduled to play
- flageoletist — Someone who plays the flageolet.
- flame stitch — an ornamental stitch, used on bedspreads, upholstery fabrics, and the like, producing rows of ogees in various colors.
- flammiferous — flame-producing
- fleet prison — (formerly) a London prison, esp used for holding debtors
- fleetingness — passing swiftly; vanishing quickly; transient; transitory: fleeting beauty; a fleeting glance.
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- flesh-eating — habitually eating flesh; carnivorous
- fleur-de-lis — a heraldic device somewhat resembling three petals or floral segments of an iris tied by an encircling band.
- flexibleness — The state or quality of being flexible.
- flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
- flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
- flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
- flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
- flittermouse — bat2 (def 1).
- florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
- flour sifter — a container in which flour is sifted
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- fluid assets — assets that are in the form of cash or easily convertible into cash
- fluoresceine — Alternative spelling of fluorescein.
- fluorimeters — Plural form of fluorimeter.
- fluosilicate — a salt of fluosilicic acid.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- flux density — the magnetic, radiant, or electric flux per unit of cross-sectional area.
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- flyfishermen — Plural form of flyfisherman.
- flying mouse — pygmy glider.
- flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
- foefie slide — a rope, fixed at an incline, along which a person suspended on a pulley may traverse a space, esp across a river
- folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
- folk society — an often small, homogeneous, and isolated community or society functioning chiefly through primary contacts and strongly attached to its traditional ways of living.
- followership — the ability or willingness to follow a leader.
- foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
- foot soldier — an infantryman.