12-letter words containing a, t, f, i, r, s
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- olfactronics — the measurement and analysis of smells through instruments
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- rabbitfishes — Plural form of rabbitfish.
- rat-infested — (of a place or vessel) that has many rats
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- safari shirt — a shirt resembling a bush jacket.
- salutiferous — salutary.
- satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- satisfactory — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
- scared stiff — terrified
- scarificator — a person who scarifies.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- surf casting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
- testificator — a person who witnesses
- the fair sex — women collectively
- titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.
- 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 sign — notice to vehicles
- 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.
- transforming — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transformism — the doctrine of gradual transformation of one species into another by descent with modification through many generations.
- transformist — an adherent of transformism.
- transmogrify — to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.
- transpacific — passing or extending across the Pacific.
- trustafarian — a young person from a wealthy background whose trust fund enables him or her to eschew conventional attitudes to work, dress, drug taking, etc
- ultraleftist — ultraleft.
- unstratified — not stratified; not arranged in strata or layers: unstratified rocks.