12-letter words containing s, n, e, f
- flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
- folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
- fomentations — Plural form of fomentation.
- food science — the study of the nature of foods and the changes that occur in them naturally and as a result of handling and processing.
- foodlessness — Absence of food.
- footlessness — the state of being footless
- footsoreness — The characteristic of being footsore.
- for a season — for a while
- 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.
- forbearances — Plural form of forbearance.
- forcefulness — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
- forcibleness — The quality of being forcible.
- 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
- foreshortens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshorten.
- forest green — Lincoln green.
- forestalling — Present participle of forestall.
- formlessness — The quality of being formless.
- fornicatress — (obsolete) A woman guilty of fornication.
- forsakenness — past participle of forsake.
- fort pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
- fortepianist — the player of a fortepiano
- forty-niners — a person, especially a prospector, who went to California in 1849 during the gold rush.
- forty-second — next after the forty-first; being the ordinal number for 42.
- fosphenytoin — a prodrug that produces phenytoin and is taken to prevent or treat seizures.
- four-corners — a point in the SW U.S., at the intersection of 37° N latitude and 109° W longitude, where the boundaries of four states—Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico—meet: the only such point in the U.S.
- fourdriniers — Plural form of fourdrinier.
- fourfoldness — the quality of consisting of four parts
- fragrantness — the quality of being fragrant
- 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.
- francophones — Plural form of francophone.
- frank stella — Frank (Phillip) born 1936, U.S. painter.
- frankenstein — a person who creates a monster or a destructive agency that cannot be controlled or that brings about the creator's ruin.
- frankfurters — Plural form of frankfurter.
- 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.
- freestanding — (of sculpture or architectural elements) unattached to a supporting unit or background; standing alone.
- freethinkers — Plural form of freethinker.
- french doors — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- french fries — thin fried sticks of potato
- french shore — either of two stretches of coastline inhabited mainly by Francophone Canadians: the W coast of Newfoundland and the SW coast of Nova Scotia between Yarmouth and Digby.