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12-letter words containing a, s, f

  • insufflation — to blow or breathe (something) in.
  • iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
  • isapi filter — (web)   A replaceable DLL which the server calls whenever there is an HTTP request. When the filter is first loaded, it communicates to the server what sort of notifications will be accepted. After that, whenever a selected event occurs, the filter is called to process the event. Example applications of ISAPI filters include custom authentication schemes, compression, encryption, logging, traffic analysis or other request analyses.
  • isoflavonoid — (organic chemistry) Any compound, isomeric with the flavonoids, derived from 3-phenyl-1,4-benzopyrone.
  • jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
  • javelin fish — a fish of the genus Pomadasys of semitropical Australian seas with a long spine on its anal fin
  • jawless fish — cyclostome.
  • jaws of life — powerful shears used for cutting a vehicle open after a collision
  • jeffersonian — pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
  • jesus freaks — a member of any of several fundamentalist groups of chiefly young people (Jesus people) originating in the early 1970s and emphasizing intense personal devotion to and study of Jesus Christ and His teachings.
  • juventa fons — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed through a telescope.
  • king-of-arms — a title of certain of the principal heralds of England and certain other kingdoms empowered by their sovereigns to grant armorial bearings.
  • korsakoffian — relating to or suffering from Korsakoff's psychosis
  • lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
  • larch sawfly — a red and black sawfly, Pristiphora erichsonii, the larvae of which infest and feed on the leaves of larch.
  • laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
  • latifundista — the owner of a latifundio in Latin America or Spain.
  • law of areas — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • law of moses — the Pentateuch, containing the Mosaic dispensations, or system of rules and ordinances, and forming the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
  • law of sines — a law stating that the ratio of a side of a plane triangle to the sine of the opposite angle is the same for all three sides.
  • leaf mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
  • leapfroggers — Plural form of leapfrogger.
  • least of all — You can use least of all after a negative statement to emphasize that it applies especially to the person or thing mentioned.
  • life savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
  • lifestreamer — a person who provides an online record of his or her life, either by means of live video footage or via an online collection of social network updates, blogs, and photos
  • lifting sail — a sail that when filled tends to raise the hull of a ship or boat (opposed to driving sail).
  • little falls — a township in NE New Jersey.
  • loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
  • loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
  • ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
  • lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
  • macclesfield — a market town in NW England, in Cheshire: former centre of the silk industry; pharmaceuticals, services. Pop: 50 688 (2001)
  • macrofossils — Plural form of macrofossil.
  • make friends — get to know people
  • malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
  • malefactress — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
  • malefeasance — Obsolete form of malfeasance.
  • malfeasances — Plural form of malfeasance.
  • malfunctions — Plural form of malfunction.
  • man of straw — straw man.
  • manifestness — The quality or state of being manifest or obvious.
  • manifoldness — (mathematics) multiplicity.
  • mansard-roof — Also called mansard roof. a hip roof, each face of which has a steeper lower part and a shallower upper part. Compare French roof.
  • manufactures — Plural form of manufacture.
  • mass funeral — a funeral held for several dead people at the same time
  • mauvaise foi — (in the philosophy of Sartre) the expression usually rendered as bad faith
  • memory farts — (jargon, humour)   The flatulent sounds that some MS-DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory at boot time.
  • metafictions — Plural form of metafiction.
  • mischanceful — unlucky
  • misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
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