12-letter words containing s, t, r, a, f
- defenestrate — to throw (a person or a thing) out of a window
- deformations — Plural form of deformation.
- draftsperson — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, especially in an architectural or engineering firm.
- dye transfer — a photographic printing method by which a full-color image is produced by the printing of separate cyan, magenta, and yellow images from individual gelatin relief matrices.
- east african — of or relating to East Africa or its inhabitants
- fabrications — Plural form of fabrication.
- facilitators — Plural form of facilitator.
- factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
- factory acts — laws relating to factories
- factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
- fairy lights — Fairy lights are small, coloured electric lights that are hung up as decorations, for example on a Christmas tree.
- faits divers — brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational, lurid, etc.
- falling star — an incandescent meteor; a shooting star.
- false arrest — arrest or detention of a person contrary to or unauthorized by law.
- falsehearted — Alternative spelling of false-hearted.
- farsightedly — In a farsighted manner.
- farthingales — Plural form of farthingale.
- farthingless — without a farthing, having no money
- fast forward — advance rapidly through
- fast neutron — a neutron produced by nuclear fission that has lost little energy by collision; a neutron with a kinetic energy in excess of 0.1 MeV
- fast reactor — a nuclear reactor using little or no moderator, fission being caused by fast neutrons
- fast-forward — a function of an audio or video recorder or player, as a cassette deck or DVR, that allows the content to be advanced rapidly.
- fast-growing — growing very quickly
- fast-tracker — of or relating to the fast track.
- father's day — a day, usually the third Sunday in June, set aside in honor of fathers.
- fatherliness — The property of being fatherly.
- favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
- feather shot — fine bean shot.
- feather star — a free-swimming crinoid.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- featherheads — Plural form of featherhead.
- featheriness — The state or quality of being feathery.
- federalistic — an advocate of federalism.
- fenestration — the design and disposition of windows and other exterior openings of a building.
- festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
- fianarantsoa — a city in E central Madagascar.
- fibroblastic — a cell that contributes to the formation of connective tissue fibers.
- fibromatosis — (pathology) The presence of multiple fibromas.
- 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.
- figure skate — a shoe skate used in figure skating, especially one having a blade shorter than that of a racing skate, usually not extending beyond the toe or heel, and with notches or sawteeth on the curved forward edge.
- figure-skate — to take part in figure skating
- fire station — a building in which firefighting apparatus and usually fire department personnel are housed; firehouse.
- first estate — the first of the three estates: the clergy in France; the Lords Spiritual in England. Compare estate (def 5).
- first family — a family having the highest or one of the highest social ranks in a given place.
- first nation — any of the indigenous peoples or Indian communities of Canada, especially one formally recognized by the Canadian government.
- first of all — to start with
- first reader — the elected official of a church or society who conducts the services and meetings and reads from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and the Scriptures.
- first-grader — a child in the first grade
- fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
- fissirostral — having a broad, deeply cleft beak or bill, as the swallows and goatsuckers.