12-letter words that end in n
- flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
- flag captain — the captain of a flagship
- flag station — a railroad station where trains stop only when a flag or other signal is displayed or when passengers are to be discharged.
- flagellation — the act or process of flagellating.
- flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
- flammulation — a small flame-shaped marking, esp those seen on some birds
- flavoprotein — an enzyme, containing riboflavin and linked chemically with a protein, active in the oxidation of foods in animal cells.
- fleet prison — (formerly) a London prison, esp used for holding debtors
- flocculation — to form into flocculent masses.
- flow pattern — The flow pattern is the way in which fluids move through a reactor.
- fluidization — The act or process of fluidizing.
- fluoridation — the addition of fluorides to the public water supply to reduce the incidence of tooth decay.
- fluorination — (chemistry) The introduction of fluorine into a compound by means of a chemical reaction.
- fluorocarbon — any of a class of compounds produced by substituting fluorine for hydrogen in a hydrocarbon, and characterized by great chemical stability: used chiefly as a lubricant, refrigerant, fire extinguishing agent, and in industrial and other applications in which chemical, electrical, flame, and heat resistance is essential; banned as an aerosol propellant in the U.S. because of concern about ozone layer depletion.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- flyfishermen — Plural form of flyfisherman.
- fm cyclotron — a type of cyclotron that synchronizes its accelerating voltage with particle velocity in order to compensate for the relativistic mass increase of the particle as it approaches the speed of light.
- focalization — (optics) Putting into focus.
- foetoprotein — Alternative spelling of fetoprotein.
- footplateman — a member of a locomotive crew who stands on the footplate to operate the controls
- for a season — for a while
- foreign-born — born in a country other than that in which one resides.
- forest green — Lincoln green.
- forked chain — branched chain.
- fort jackson — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in N central South Carolina, NE of Columbia.
- fort madison — a city in SE Iowa, on the Mississippi.
- fosphenytoin — a prodrug that produces phenytoin and is taken to prevent or treat seizures.
- fountain pen — a pen with a refillable reservoir that provides a continuous supply of usually fluid ink to its point.
- frankalmoign — a form of tenure by which religious bodies held lands, esp on condition of praying for the soul of the donor
- frankenstein — a person who creates a monster or a destructive agency that cannot be controlled or that brings about the creator's ruin.
- frantz fanon — Frantz (Omar) [frants oh-mahr;; French frahnts aw-mar] /frænts ˈoʊ mɑr;; French frɑ̃ts ɔˈmar/ (Show IPA), 1925–61, West Indian psychiatrist and political theorist, born in Martinique; in Algeria after 1953.
- free balloon — a balloon, often equipped to carry passengers, that drifts with air currents and whose ascent and descent are controlled by the release of ballast and buoyant gas.
- freezer burn — light-colored spots that appear on frozen food, caused by loss of surface moisture due to faulty packaging or improper freezing methods.
- french drain — a drainage trench filled to ground level with fragments of brick, rock, etc.
- french sudan — former name of Mali.
- french union — a former association of France and its overseas territories, colonies, and protectorates as constituted in 1946: superseded by the French Community in 1958.
- frontiersman — a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
- frontiersmen — a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
- frumentation — (in ancient Rome) a public donation of grain, often given to citizens during times of unease
- fulton sheen — Fulton (John) 1895–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman, writer, and teacher.
- funeral plan — A funeral plan is a basic life insurance policy that provides money to pay for the policyholder's funeral expenses when they die.
- furocoumarin — psoralen.
- futilitarian — believing that human hopes are vain, and human strivings unjustified.
- gambling den — a building operating as a business where money can be staked on playing games of chance
- gambling man — adult male who gambles
- gamification — the process of turning an activity or task into a game or something resembling a game: Teachers can use gamification to motivate their students.
- gao xingjian — born 1940, French novelist and playwright, born in China: Nobel Prize 2000.
- gap junction — a linkage of two adjacent cells consisting of a system of channels extending across a gap from one cell to the other, allowing the passage of ions and small molecules.
- gas equation — an equation that equates the product of the pressure and the volume of one mole of a gas to the product of its thermodynamic temperature and the gas constant. The equation is exact for an ideal gas and is a good approximation for real gases at low pressures