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12-letter words containing t, o, r, f

  • farm to fork — noting or relating to fresh, locally sourced food sold to local consumers or restaurants: farm-to-table meats and seasonal vegetables.
  • farm-to-fork — noting or relating to fresh, locally sourced food sold to local consumers or restaurants: farm-to-table meats and seasonal vegetables.
  • 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
  • fata morgana — Meteorology. a mirage consisting of multiple images, as of cliffs and buildings, that are distorted and magnified to resemble elaborate castles, often seen near the Straits of Messina.
  • favorability — The quality or degree of being viewed favorably.
  • 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.
  • featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
  • fenestration — the design and disposition of windows and other exterior openings of a building.
  • fermentation — the act or process of fermenting.
  • ferrite core — a ferrite magnetic core used in a core memory.
  • 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.
  • fiberization — the process or practice of breaking into fibres
  • fibre optics — optical fibre
  • fibrillation — the formation of fibrils.
  • fibrinolytic — 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.
  • fibrous root — a root, as in most grasses, having numerous, very fine branches of approximately the same length.
  • 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 cornet — a commander of burgher troops called up in time of war or in an emergency, esp during the 19th century
  • 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.
  • fifty-fourth — next after the fifty-third; being the ordinal number for 54.
  • fire control — technical and sometimes automatic supervision of artillery or naval gunfire on a target, as for range, elevation, etc.
  • fire station — a building in which firefighting apparatus and usually fire department personnel are housed; firehouse.
  • fire support — support given by artillery and aircraft to infantry and armored vehicles.
  • first cousin — cousin (def 1).
  • 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 person — the grammatical person used by a speaker in statements referring to himself or herself (first person singular) or to a group including himself or herself (first person plural)
  • first school — A first school is a school for children aged between five and eight or nine.
  • first violin — one of the principal group of violins in an orchestra
  • firth of tay — the estuary of the River Tay on the North Sea coast of Scotland. Length: 40 km (25 miles)
  • fish factory — a factory where fish is processed
  • fishing port — a town which has a lot of fishing boats
  • fissirostral — having a broad, deeply cleft beak or bill, as the swallows and goatsuckers.
  • fitness room — a room with gym equipment in it
  • fitting room — a room, as in a clothing store, where garments are tried on and measurements taken for alterations or other changes.
  • flagellators — Plural form of flagellator.
  • flagellatory — relating to flagellation
  • flamethrower — a weapon, either mounted or portable, that sprays ignited incendiary fuel for some distance.
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