12-letter words containing v, f
- ferdinand vi — 1713–59, king of Spain 1746–59 (son of Philip V).
- fermentative — tending to produce or undergo fermentation.
- festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
- feverishness — The quality of being feverish.
- 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.
- fire service — The fire service is an organization which has the job of putting out fires.
- first violin — one of the principal group of violins in an orchestra
- five by five — short and fat.
- five fingers — any of certain species of potentilla having leaves of five leaflets, as Potentilla canadensis.
- five hundred — a variety of euchre in which a joker and widow are included, the object being to score 500 points first.
- five nations — (formerly) a confederacy of North American Indian peoples living mainly in and around present-day New York state, consisting of the Cayugas, Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, and Senecas
- five-and-ten — Also called five-and-ten-cent store [fahyv-uh n-ten-sent] /ˈfaɪv ənˈtɛnˌsɛnt/ (Show IPA), five-and-dime [fahyv-uh n-dahym] /ˈfaɪv ənˈdaɪm/ (Show IPA), dime store, ten-cent store. a store offering a wide assortment of inexpensive items, formerly costing five or ten cents, for personal and household use.
- five-by-five — short and fat.
- flavoprotein — an enzyme, containing riboflavin and linked chemically with a protein, active in the oxidation of foods in animal cells.
- flavorlessly — In a flavorless way.
- flight level — a specified height at which an aircraft is allowed to fly
- floppy drive — disk drive
- fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
- flying visit — A flying visit is a visit that only lasts a very short time.
- food service — the preparation, delivery, serving, etc., of ready-to-eat foods: The cafeteria employs over 20 people in food service.
- food vacuole — a membrane-enclosed cell vacuole with a digestive function, containing material taken up in by the process of phagocytosis.
- for evermore — forever; always
- forest grove — a town in NW Oregon.
- fort belvoir — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Virginia on the Potomac.
- forward dive — a dive from a position facing the water in which the diver jumps up from the springboard, rotating the body forward, and enters the water either headfirst or feetfirst.
- frederick iv — Frederick III (def 1).
- french curve — a flat drafting instrument, usually consisting of a sheet of clear plastic, the edges of which are cut into several scroll-like curves enabling a draftsperson to draw lines of varying curvature.
- french leave — Sometimes Offensive. a departure without ceremony, permission, or notice: Taking French leave, he evaded his creditors.
- fructivorous — Fruit-eating.
- fuel poverty — the state of being unable to afford to heat one's home adequately
- fugitiveness — The quality of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility.
- full-service — offering or providing a wide range of services related to the basic line of business, as when a filling station changes tires or makes car repairs in addition to selling gasoline.
- future value — the value that a sum of money invested at compound interest will have after a specified period
- gift voucher — gift certificate.
- give offence — to cause annoyance or displeasure to someone
- give offense — to offend; anger, insult, etc.
- gravity feed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- griseofulvin — an antibiotic, C 17 H 17 ClO 6 , obtained from a species of Penicillium, used in the treatment of ringworm and other fungous infections of the skin.
- half-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- half-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- halls of ivy — an institution of higher learning; university or college; the academic world.
- hard-favored — South Midland U.S. (of a person) hard-featured.
- have none of — If you say that someone will have none of something, or is having none of something, you mean that they refuse to accept it.
- heavy-footed — clumsy or ponderous, as in movement or expressiveness: music that is heavy-footed and uninspired.
- hectic fever — a fever associated with tuberculosis
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- imperfective — noting an aspect of the verb, as in Russian, that indicates incompleteness of the action or state at a temporal point of reference.
- in favour of — If one thing is rejected in favour of another, the second thing is done or chosen instead of the first.
- in-effective — not effective; not producing results; ineffectual: ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
- inclusive of — including; taking into account