12-letter words containing fer
- ferrosilicon — a ferroalloy containing up to 95 percent silicon.
- ferry bridge — transporter bridge.
- fertilizable — Capable of being fertilized.
- ferulic acid — a compound, C 10 H 10 O 4 , found in small amounts in lants, that occurs in two isomers, one a yellow oily liquid and the other crystalline.
- flameproofer — any agent which renders something flameproof
- flammiferous — flame-producing
- foraminifera — any chiefly marine protozoan of the sarcodinian order Foraminifera, typically having a linear, spiral, or concentric shell perforated by small holes or pores through which pseudopodia extend.
- frame buffer — (hardware) Part of a video system in which an image is stored, pixel by pixel and which is used to refresh a raster image. The term "video memory" suggests a fairly static display whereas a frame buffer holds one frame from a sequence of frames forming a moving image. Frame buffers are found in frame grabbers and time base correction systems, for example.
- frondiferous — Producing fronds.
- fructiferous — fruit-bearing; producing fruit.
- galeniferous — Of a mineral or deposit that contains galena.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- graham wafer — a cracker intended to aid digestion.
- hasenpfeffer — a stew of marinated rabbit meat garnished usually with sour cream.
- indifference — lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
- indifferency — indifference.
- insufferable — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- interference — an act, fact, or instance of interfering.
- interfertile — able to interbreed.
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- jeffersonian — pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
- jeffersonite — (mineralogy) A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
- kupfernickel — (archaic) cupronickel.
- laffer curve — a relationship postulated between tax rates and tax receipts indicating that rates above a certain level actually produce less revenue because they discourage taxable endeavors and vice versa.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
- luminiferous — producing light: the luminiferous properties of a gas.
- misinference — Incorrect inference.
- misreference — to reference (an academic work, a publication, etc) inaccurately or incorrectly
- moschiferous — giving off or producing musk
- ostrich fern — a tall North American fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, with large mature leaves that resemble ostrich plumes, a popular landscaping plant whose curled new leaves, called fiddleheads, are eaten as a vegetable.
- parsley fern — a small bright green tufted European fern, Cryptogramma crispa, that grows on acid scree and rock in uplands
- pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- penny loafer — a loafer with a slot on the vamp that can hold a coin, usually a penny.
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- pilfer-proof — (of a supply, stock, container, etc) protected from or not susceptible to pilfering
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- preferential — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
- pyritiferous — having or producing pyrites
- resiniferous — yielding resin.
- salutiferous — salutary.
- san fernando — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
- sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
- schrieffer's — John Robert, born 1931, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1972.
- seleniferous — containing or yielding selenium.
- self-fertile — capable of self-fertilization.
- seminiferous — Anatomy. conveying or containing semen.
- siliciferous — containing, combined with, or producing silica.
- soboliferous — bearing or producing soboles