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12-letter words containing a, f, i, r

  • savoir-faire — knowledge of just what to do in any situation; tact.
  • scabbardfish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
  • scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
  • scared stiff — terrified
  • scarificator — a person who scarifies.
  • scire facias — a writ requiring the party against whom it is brought to show cause why a judgment, letters patent, etc., should not be executed, vacated, or annulled.
  • 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.
  • significator — a planet deemed significant in astrology
  • silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
  • sir sandford — Mount, a mountain in SE British Columbia, Canada, in the Selkirk Mountains. 11,590 feet (3533 meters).
  • sniff around — dog: try to pick up scent
  • sofa surfing — (of a homeless person) the practice of staying temporarily with various friends and relatives while attempting to find permanent accommodation
  • solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
  • sorbefacient — inducing absorption
  • south africa — Republic of, a country in S Africa; member of the Commonwealth of Nations until 1961. 472,000 sq. mi. (1,222,480 sq. km). Capitals: Pretoria and Cape Town.
  • 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.
  • stalactiform — resembling or shaped like a stalactite.
  • stand in for — to substitute for
  • stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
  • steam fitter — a person who installs and repairs steampipes and their accessories.
  • straight off — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • stratiformis — occurring in a very extensive horizontal layer.
  • strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
  • subfactorial — the number of ways a group of objects can be arranged so that none of the objects are in their original or correct place
  • sugaring off — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
  • sulfarsenide — any compound containing an arsenide and a sulfide.
  • surf casting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
  • surface mail — the system, especially a government postal system, of sending mail by truck, train, or boat, as opposed to airmail.
  • surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
  • tail feather — one of the feathers making up a bird's tail
  • tank farming — hydroponics.
  • 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.
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