12-letter words that end in r
- float collar — A float collar is a part near the bottom of the casing string which catches the bottom plug and top plug, and which prevents mud from entering the casing.
- floor broker — a member of a stock or commodity exchange who executes orders on the floor of the exchange for other brokers.
- floor leader — the majority leader or minority leader in either the Senate or the House of Representatives.
- floor trader — a member of a stock or commodity exchange who executes orders on the floor of the exchange for his or her own account.
- floor-filler — a dance recording that is so catchy and popular that everyone in the place where it is played wants to dance
- flour shaker — a container, often with a perforated top, from which flour is shaken
- flour sifter — a container in which flour is sifted
- flower power — Flower power is an old-fashioned way of referring to hippies and the culture associated with hippies in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- flowerpecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
- fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
- flying lemur — either of two lemurlike mammals, Cynocephalus variegatus, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, or C. volans, of the Philippines, having broad folds of skin on both sides of the body to aid in gliding from tree to tree: now rare.
- flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
- focus puller — the member of a camera crew who adjusts the focus of the lens as the camera is tracked in or out
- folding door — a door with hinged sections that can be folded flat against one another when opened.
- food counter — a counter in a shop, bar, cafeteria, etc where food is sold or served
- foot soldier — an infantryman.
- for a wonder — to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
- foreshadower — One who or that which foreshadows.
- forest floor — the above- ground layer of a forest made up of tree roots, soil and decaying matter
- formularizer — One who formularizes.
- fort belvoir — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Virginia on the Potomac.
- forward gear — a gear in a vehicle that is used when the vehicle is moving forward
- foundationer — a person supported by funds from a foundation, or serving as a member of a foundation
- four-by-four — a four-wheeled automotive vehicle having four-wheel drive.
- four-flusher — a person who makes false or pretentious claims; bluffer.
- four-striper — a captain in the U.S. Navy.
- four-wheeler — a four-wheel vehicle, especially a hackney carriage.
- fractionator — Chemistry. an apparatus for fractional distillation. Compare cracker (def 10).
- 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.
- franc-tireur — a sharpshooter in the French army.
- free-swimmer — an animal, as a fish, that swims about freely.
- free-thinker — a person who forms opinions on the basis of reason, independent of authority or tradition, especially a person whose religious opinions differ from established belief.
- freightliner — a train for transporting containerized freight.
- frog sticker — Slang. a knife, especially one carried as a weapon.
- frog-sticker — Slang. a knife, especially one carried as a weapon.
- front burner — Informal. a condition or position of top priority: Put the project on the front burner and finish it as soon as possible.
- front loader — a washing machine with a door at the front which opens one side of the drum into which washing is placed
- front matter — all material in a book that precedes the text proper, as the title page, copyright page, table of contents, dedication, and preface.
- front runner — a person who leads in any competition.
- front-loader — a machine or appliance, as a washing machine, loaded and unloaded through an opening in the front (as distinguished from a top loader).
- front-runner — In a competition or contest, the front-runner is the person who seems most likely to win it.
- frontbencher — (politics) one who sits on the front bench in a parliament. Typically the spokesmen for those who sit further back.
- fruit farmer — somebody who farms or grows fruit
- fruit-picker — a person or a tool that picks fruit from trees
- fudge factor — any variable component added to an experiment, plan, or the like that can be manipulated to allow leeway for error.
- full trailer — a trailer supported entirely by its own wheels.
- funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
- fund manager — A fund manager is someone whose job involves investing the money contained in a fund, for example, a mutual fund, on behalf of another person or organization.
- gaboon viper — a large, venomous snake, Bitis gabonica, of tropical African forests, having large retractable fangs and geometrically patterned scales of yellow, brown, and sometimes purple.
- galactometer — a lactometer.