12-letter words containing s, f, e
- 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.
- fishmonger's — a shop that sells fish
- fissicostate — having divided or separated ribs
- fissipalmate — (of birds) having the toes lobed or partially webbed.
- fitness room — a room with gym equipment in it
- fitness test — a test to see how fit someone is
- fitted sheet — a sheet with ends that are elasticated and shaped to fit tightly over a mattress
- five fingers — any of certain species of potentilla having leaves of five leaflets, as Potentilla canadensis.
- five nations — (formerly) a confederacy of North American Indian peoples living mainly in and around present-day New York state, consisting of the Cayugas, Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, and Senecas
- fixed assets — any long-term asset, as a building, tract of land, or patent.
- fixed system — a system of solmization which assigns the names ut (or do), re, mi, fa, sol, la, si (or ti) to the degrees of the major scale of C
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- flat-chested — If you describe a woman as flat-chested, you mean that she has small breasts.
- flatterously — in a flatterous manner
- flavorlessly — In a flavorless way.
- flawlessness — having no defects or faults, especially none that diminish the value of something: a flawless Ming Dynasty vase.
- 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.
- 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 colour — of a yellowish-pink to yellowish-grey colour roughly that of the skin of a white person
- 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.
- fleur-de-lys — fleur-de-lis (defs 1, 2).
- flexibleness — The state or quality of being flexible.
- flexuousness — The state or condition of being flexuous.
- 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).
- floor sample — an appliance, piece of furniture, or other article of merchandise that has been used for display or demonstration and is usually offered at a reduced price.
- floorwalkers — Plural form of floorwalker.
- florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
- flour shaker — a container, often with a perforated top, from which flour is shaken
- 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.