12-letter words containing a, f, i, r, e
- scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
- sea crawfish — spiny lobster
- sea crayfish — spiny lobster.
- self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
- self-raising — a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocent.
- self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
- self-reliant — relying on oneself or on one's own powers, resources, etc.
- sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
- service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- space-filler — a short article of little or no importance written to fill space in a magazine or newspaper
- spearfishing — any of several fishes of the genus Tetrapturus, resembling the sailfish but having the first dorsal fin much less developed: inhabiting all seas, but rare.
- square serif — a font of type having serifs with a weight equal to or greater than that of the main strokes. Compare Egyptian (def 5).
- stage fright — nervousness felt by a performer or speaker when appearing before an audience.
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- steam fitter — a person who installs and repairs steampipes and their accessories.
- strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
- sulfarsenide — any compound containing an arsenide and a sulfide.
- surface mail — the system, especially a government postal system, of sending mail by truck, train, or boat, as opposed to airmail.
- tail feather — one of the feathers making up a bird's tail
- tank fighter — a boxer known for false shows of being knocked down or out in bouts the results of which have been prearranged.
- taper relief — (in Britain) a system of relief from capital gains tax under which the percentage of a chargeable gain considered taxable is reduced for each whole year (from April 1998) that the asset was held by the vendor
- target rifle — a rifle designed especially for shooting at targets.
- terraforming — to alter the environment of (a celestial body) in order to make capable of supporting terrestrial life forms.
- terrifically — extraordinarily great or intense: terrific speed.
- testificator — a person who witnesses
- the fair sex — women collectively
- thereinafter — afterward in that document.
- tie-off rail — trim rail.
- titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.
- torrefaction — to subject to fire or intense heat; parch, roast, or scorch.
- trace fossil — a fossilized track, trail, burrow, boring, or other structure in sedimentary rock that records the presence or behavior of the organism that made it.
- traffic cone — conical road markers
- transfection — the insertion into a cell of a bacterial plasmid that contains a foreign virus or genetic material.
- transfermium — having an atomic number greater than 100, the atomic number of fermium.
- transferring — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- trefoil arch — an arch with cusplike intrados.
- trifoliolate — having three leaflets, as a compound leaf.
- trypaflavine — acriflavine hydrochloride.
- ultraleftist — ultraleft.
- ultrarefined — having been refined exceptionally well or thoroughly
- unaffrighted — to frighten.
- unfabricated — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- unfilterable — not able to be filtered
- unflattering — to try to please by complimentary remarks or attention.
- unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- unformalized — not formalized
- unformidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- unfranchised — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- unprofitable — being without profit; not showing or turning a profit: a series of unprofitable ventures.