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12-letter words containing t, e, f

  • feminization — The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.
  • femme fatale — an irresistibly attractive woman, especially one who leads men into difficult, dangerous, or disastrous situations; siren.
  • fence-sitter — a person who remains neutral or undecided in a controversy.
  • fenestration — the design and disposition of windows and other exterior openings of a building.
  • ferlinghetti — Lawrence, born 1920? U.S. poet associated with the Beat Generation.
  • fermat prime — (mathematics)   A prime number of the form 2^2^n + 1. Any prime number of the form 2^n+1 must be a Fermat prime. Fermat conjectured in a letter to someone or other that all numbers 2^2^n+1 are prime, having noticed that this is true for n=0,1,2,3,4. No further Fermat primes are known; several have been factorised, and several more have been proved composite without finding explicit factorisations.
  • fermentation — the act or process of fermenting.
  • fermentative — tending to produce or undergo fermentation.
  • ferrite core — a ferrite magnetic core used in a core memory.
  • fertilizable — Capable of being fertilized.
  • festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
  • festschrifts — Plural form of festschrift.
  • fete galante — fête champêtre.
  • fetoproteins — Plural form of fetoprotein.
  • feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
  • fianchettoed — Simple past tense and past participle of fianchetto.
  • 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.
  • fiberization — the process or practice of breaking into fibres
  • fibre optics — optical fibre
  • fictionalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of fictionalize.
  • fictionalize — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
  • fiddlesticks — anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say.
  • 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 centre — a research centre equipped for field studies, usually located in or near an area of scientific interest
  • field cornet — a commander of burgher troops called up in time of war or in an emergency, esp during the 19th century
  • field jacket — a close-fitting jacket for wear by soldiers in the field.
  • field magnet — a magnet for producing a magnetic field, as in a particle accelerator or an electric motor.
  • field ration — ration issued and authorized for troops in the field.
  • field sports — sports carried on in the open countryside, such as hunting, shooting, or fishing
  • field theory — a detailed mathematical description of the distribution and movement of matter under the influence of one or more fields.
  • field-effect — designating or of an electronic component or device, esp. a transistor, controlled by an external electric field
  • fifth estate — any class or group in society other than the nobility, the clergy, the middle class, and the press.
  • fifth-grader — a student in the fifth grade of the American education system
  • fifty-eighth — next after the fifty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 58.
  • fifty-second — next after the fifty-first; being the ordinal number for 52.
  • figuratively — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
  • figure eight — figure eight.
  • 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
  • file cabinet — A file cabinet is a piece of office furniture, usually made of metal, which has drawers in which files are kept.
  • file footage — film footage already on file; stock footage of crowds, cityscapes, football games, etc.
  • file request — 1. The FidoNet equivalent of FTP, in which one BBS system automatically dials another and snarfs one or more files. Often abbreviated "FReq"; files are often announced as being "available for FReq" in the same way that files are announced as being "available for/by anonymous FTP" on the Internet. 2. The act of getting a copy of a file by using the File Request option of the BBS mailer.
  • filet mignon — a small, tender round of steak cut from the thick end of a beef tenderloin.
  • filial piety — (in Confucianism) the important virtue and primary duty of respect, obedience, and care for one's parents and elderly family members.
  • filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
  • filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
  • filler metal — metal supplied in the form of a welding rod, sometimes flux coated, melted by an arc or a flame into a joint between components to be joined
  • fillet steak — boneless cut of beef
  • fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
  • filter paper — porous paper used in filtering.
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