12-letter words containing a, s, f
- dissatisfies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dissatisfy.
- dissyllabify — to make disyllabic
- distaff side — the female side of a family (opposed to spear side).
- distastefull — Archaic form of distasteful.
- draftsperson — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, especially in an architectural or engineering firm.
- dram refresh — (storage) The operation which cycles through a DRAM reading each row and writing it back again to compensate for the gradual leakage of charge from the capacitors which store the data. This may be done by the CPU but is often done by a dedicated memory controller.
- dreadfulness — The characteristic of being dreadful.
- dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
- dye transfer — a photographic printing method by which a full-color image is produced by the printing of separate cyan, magenta, and yellow images from individual gelatin relief matrices.
- ease oneself — to urinate or defecate
- east african — of or relating to East Africa or its inhabitants
- east suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk county, in E England.
- edifications — Plural form of edification.
- eisteddfodau — Plural form of eisteddfod.
- emulsifiable — That can be emulsified, or applied in an emulsion.
- enfranchised — Simple past tense and past participle of enfranchise.
- enfranchises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enfranchise.
- escape shaft — a shaft in a mine through which miners can escape if the regular shaft is blocked
- exsufflation — (obsolete) A blast from beneath.
- exsufflicate — Empty, inflated, frivolous.
- fabrications — Plural form of fabrication.
- fabulousness — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- facelessness — The state or condition of being faceless.
- facial scrub — a beauty product or treatment which cleanses and exfoliates the skin of the face
- facilitators — Plural form of facilitator.
- factionalism — of a faction or factions.
- factionalist — of a faction or factions.
- factiousness — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- factitiously — In a factitious manner.
- factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
- factory acts — laws relating to factories
- factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
- factualities — of or relating to facts; concerning facts: factual accuracy.
- failed state — a nation in which the government has lost political authority and control and is unable to fulfill the basic responsibilities of a sovereign state.
- faintishness — The quality of being faintish; slight faintness.
- fair housing — the sale and rental of private housing free of discriminatory practices or policies.
- fair-skinned — having pale skin; pale-complexioned
- fairy lights — Fairy lights are small, coloured electric lights that are hung up as decorations, for example on a Christmas tree.
- fairy shrimp — any member of the crustacean order Anostraca, characterized by an elongate trunk with more than 20 segments and the absence of a carapace, typically found swimming ventral side up in fresh water.
- faith school — a school that provides a general education within a framework of a specific religious belief
- faithfullest — Superlative form of faithful.
- faithfulness — strict or thorough in the performance of duty: a faithful worker.
- faits divers — brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational, lurid, etc.
- fallaciously — In a fallacious manner, erroneously, illogically.
- falling star — an incandescent meteor; a shooting star.
- false acacia — black locust.
- false aralia — any of several Polynesian shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Dizygotheca, of the ginseng family, having palmately compound, mottled leaves and often grown as a houseplant.
- false arrest — arrest or detention of a person contrary to or unauthorized by law.
- false bottom — a horizontal partition above the actual bottom of a box, trunk, etc., especially one forming a secret compartment.
- false cirrus — a type of thick cirrus cloud spreading from the top of a cumulonimbus cloud