12-letter words containing a, t, e, f, c
- terrifically — extraordinarily great or intense: terrific speed.
- testificator — a person who witnesses
- to lose face — If you lose face, you do something which makes you appear weak and makes people respect or admire you less. If you do something in order to save face, you do it in order to avoid appearing weak and losing people's respect or admiration.
- to sb's face — If you say something to someone's face, you say it openly in their presence.
- tobacco leaf — the leaves of the tobacco plant, used for the production of cigarettes and tobacco
- 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.
- tracker fund — finance: type of savings account
- tractor feed — Computers. a mechanism for aligning and transporting paper for a printer by means of pins that catch in perforations along the edges of the paper.
- traffic cone — conical road markers
- transfection — the insertion into a cell of a bacterial plasmid that contains a foreign virus or genetic material.
- transference — the act or process of transferring.
- trefoil arch — an arch with cusplike intrados.
- ultracareful — extremely or especially careful
- unconfutable — to prove to be false, invalid, or defective; disprove: to confute an argument.
- unfabricated — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- unforecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- unobfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- unsanctified — not sanctified
- verification — the act of verifying.
- vitrifacture — the making of glass or glass products
- vociferation — noisy outcry; clamor.
- volta effect — contact potential.
- waffle cloth — honeycomb (def 5a).
- watchfulness — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
- wavefunction — (physics) A mathematical function that describes the propagation of the quantum mechanical wave associated with a particle (or system of particles), related to the probability of finding the particle in a particular region of space.
- west african — of or relating to West Africa
- zinc sulfate — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble powder, ZnSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used for preserving skins and wood, in the electrodeposition of zinc, in the bleaching of paper, as a mordant in calico printing, and in medicine as an astringent, styptic, and emetic.