12-letter words containing s, f, e, r, i
- 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.
- fluoresceine — Alternative spelling of fluorescein.
- fluorimeters — Plural form of fluorimeter.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- flyfishermen — Plural form of flyfisherman.
- flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
- followership — the ability or willingness to follow a leader.
- food service — the preparation, delivery, serving, etc., of ready-to-eat foods: The cafeteria employs over 20 people in food service.
- foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
- foot soldier — an infantryman.
- footsoldiers — Plural form of footsoldier.
- for instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- for-instance — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- forcibleness — The quality of being forcible.
- fore-topsail — a topsail set on a foremast on a ship.
- foreadmonish — (rare, transitive) To admonish beforehand, or before the act or event.
- foredestined — Simple past tense and past participle of foredestine.
- foreman-ship — a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
- forensically — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
- foreseeingly — by way of foreseeing
- foresightful — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
- forestalling — Present participle of forestall.
- forestaysail — a triangular sail set on a forestay; the innermost headsail of a vessel.
- foretopsails — Plural form of foretopsail.
- formularizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formularize.
- fornicatress — (obsolete) A woman guilty of fornication.
- forrest city — a city in E Arkansas.
- fort pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
- fortepianist — the player of a fortepiano
- fortresslike — Resembling a fortress in shape or impregnability.
- forty-niners — a person, especially a prospector, who went to California in 1849 during the gold rush.
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- four-striper — a captain in the U.S. Navy.
- fourdriniers — Plural form of fourdrinier.
- fox squirrel — any of several North American arboreal squirrels varying in color and of an exceptionally large size.
- francescatti — Zino [zee-noh] /ˈzi noʊ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1991, French violinist.
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- frankenstein — a person who creates a monster or a destructive agency that cannot be controlled or that brings about the creator's ruin.
- frankincense — an aromatic gum resin from various Asian and African trees of the genus Boswellia, especially B. carteri, used chiefly for burning as incense in religious or ceremonial practices, in perfumery, and in pharmaceutical and fumigating preparations.
- fraternalism — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
- fraternising — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
- fraternities — Plural form of fraternity.
- freakishness — The characteristic or quality of being freakish.
- free skating — a freestyle competition with no required elements, in which skaters perform an original program of jumps, spins, sequences, etc., to music of their choice.
- free-swimmer — an animal, as a fish, that swims about freely.
- freestanding — (of sculpture or architectural elements) unattached to a supporting unit or background; standing alone.
- freethinkers — Plural form of freethinker.