12-letter words containing s, o, f, i
- facilitators — Plural form of facilitator.
- factionalism — of a faction or factions.
- factionalist — of a faction or factions.
- factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- factitiously — In a factitious manner.
- factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
- factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
- fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
- faith school — a school that provides a general education within a framework of a specific religious belief
- fallaciously — In a fallacious manner, erroneously, illogically.
- false indigo — any of several North American shrubs belonging to the genus Amorpha, of the legume family, especially A. fruticosa, having compound leaves with pinnate leaflets and long, dense clusters of purplish flowers.
- fascia-board — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
- fascinations — Plural form of fascination.
- fascioliasis — liver-rot.
- fashion icon — a person or thing that is very well known as being highly fashionable
- fashion show — a show in which models display clothes to prospective buyers
- fashionistas — Plural form of fashionista.
- fashiousness — the quality of being fashious; troublesomeness
- fast fashion — the reproduction of highly fashionable clothes at high speed and low cost
- fast-flowing — water: rapid
- fast-growing — growing very quickly
- fastidiously — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- fastigiation — The quality of being fastigiate.
- favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
- feldspathoid — Also, feldspathoidal. of or relating to a group of minerals similar in chemical composition to certain feldspars except for a lower silica content.
- felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
- fellowshiped — Simple past tense and past participle of fellowship.
- feminisation — Alternative spelling of feminization.
- fenestration — the design and disposition of windows and other exterior openings of a building.
- fennoscandia — region in N Europe, including Scandinavia, Finland, and the part of NW Russia west of the White Sea
- ferrokinesis — (parapsychology) The ability to mentally manipulate iron and other metals.
- ferrosilicon — a ferroalloy containing up to 95 percent silicon.
- festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
- fetoproteins — Plural form of fetoprotein.
- fianarantsoa — a city in E central Madagascar.
- fiber optics — the branch of optics that deals with the transmission of light through transparent fibers, as in the form of pulses for the transmission of data or communications, or through fiber bundles for the transmission of images.
- fibre optics — optical fibre
- fibrinolysin — a proteolytic enzyme, formed in the blood from plasminogen, that causes the breakdown of the fibrin in blood clots.
- fibrinolysis — the disintegration or dissolution of fibrin, especially by enzymatic action.
- fibroblastic — a cell that contributes to the formation of connective tissue fibers.
- fibromatosis — (pathology) The presence of multiple fibromas.
- fibrosarcoma — a sarcoma derived from fibroblast cells, often able to generate collagen.
- fibrous root — a root, as in most grasses, having numerous, very fine branches of approximately the same length.
- fictionalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of fictionalize.
- fictitiously — created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false: fictitious names.
- fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
- field sports — sports carried on in the open countryside, such as hunting, shooting, or fishing
- fifty-second — next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
- fight shy of — bashful; retiring.
- finalisation — The act or process of finalising.