12-letter words containing the
- etherization — (surgery) anaesthetization using ether.
- etheromaniac — a person who is addicted to ether
- everywhither — (archaic,or,poetic) to everywhere.
- ex hypothesi — in accordance with or following from the hypothesis stated
- fainthearted — lacking courage; cowardly; timorous.
- fair-weather — used in or intended for fair weather only.
- father image — a person substituted in one's mind for one's father and often the object of emotions felt toward the father
- father's day — a day, usually the third Sunday in June, set aside in honor of fathers.
- fatherliness — The property of being fatherly.
- feather palm — any palm having large pinnate or bipinnate leaves, as the date palm or royal palm.
- feather shot — fine bean shot.
- feather star — a free-swimming crinoid.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- featherbrain — a foolish or giddy person; scatterbrain.
- featherheads — Plural form of featherhead.
- featheriness — The state or quality of being feathery.
- featherlight — extremely light; light as a feather.
- field theory — a detailed mathematical description of the distribution and movement of matter under the influence of one or more fields.
- firebreather — A performer who creates fireballs by breathing a fine mist of fuel over an open flame.
- fit the bill — If you say that someone or something fits the bill or fills the bill, you mean that they are suitable for a particular job or purpose.
- flat-earther — a person who adheres to the idea that the earth is flat.
- fluoranthene — (organic compound) A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of a benzene ring attached to each of the rings of a naphthalene molecule; it is carcinogenic, and is a product of incomplete combustion.
- fly the coop — an enclosure, cage, or pen, usually with bars or wires, in which fowls or other small animals are confined for fattening, transportation, etc.
- fly the flag — to represent or show support for one's country, an organization, etc
- fly the nest — When children fly the nest, they leave their parents' home to live on their own.
- for the best — of the highest quality, excellence, or standing: the best work; the best students.
- foregathered — Simple past tense and past participle of foregather.
- fotheringhay — a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.
- foul-mouthed — using obscene, profane, or scurrilous language; given to filthy or abusive speech.
- full-mouthed — (of cattle, sheep, etc.) having a complete set of teeth.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- gauge theory — a type of theory of elementary particles designed to explain the strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions in terms of exchange of virtual particles
- gene therapy — the application of genetic engineering to the transplantation of genes into human cells in order to cure a disease caused by a genetic defect, as a missing enzyme.
- geothermally — By geothermal means, especially by means of geothermal energy.
- get the bird — to be fired or dismissed
- get the hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
- get the hump — If someone gets the hump, they get very annoyed about something.
- get the idea — understand
- get the sack — be dismissed from job
- get together — an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal: the get of a stallion.
- get-together — an informal and usually small social gathering.
- give the eye — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- go the round — to be circulated among a number of people: said of a story, rumor, etc.
- go the route — If you go the route, you do something fully or continue with a task until you have completely finished.
- god-botherer — an over-zealous Christian
- gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
- goldsmithery — the occupation of a goldsmith
- grandfathers — Plural form of grandfather.
- grandmothers — Plural form of grandmother.
- graph theory — the branch of mathematics dealing with linear graphs.