12-letter words containing a, t, f, u
- quantifiably — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- quarterfinal — of or relating to the contest or round preceding the semifinal one.
- quarterstaff — a former English weapon consisting of a stout pole 6 to 8 feet (1.8 to 2.4 meters) long, tipped with iron.
- radiant flux — the time rate of flow of radiant energy.
- refoundation — an act of refounding
- rotator cuff — a bandlike structure encircling and supporting the shoulder joint, formed by four muscles attached to and merging with the joint capsule.
- safe conduct — If you are given safe conduct, the authorities officially allow you to travel somewhere, guaranteeing that you will not be arrested or harmed while doing so.
- safe-conduct — a document authorizing safe passage through a region, especially in time of war.
- safety touch — a two-point play
- salutiferous — salutary.
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
- sneak out of — leave secretly
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- 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.
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- stand up for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
- stealthfully — secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
- stefan dušan — 1308–55, king of Serbia (1331–55), who conquered Albania (1343) and large parts of the Byzantine empire, into which he introduced legal and administrative reforms
- strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
- stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- stupefactive — serving to stupefy.
- 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
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- subinfeudate — to grant (lands) by subinfeudation
- sulfate pulp — wood pulp made by the sulfate process.
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- surf casting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
- thankfulness — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
- the faithful — the believers in and loyal adherents of a religious faith, esp Christianity
- thoroughfare — a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
- thousandfold — having a thousand elements or parts.
- thrust fault — a low-angle reverse fault produced in rocks subjected to thrust.
- thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
- titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.
- tongue graft — whip graft.
- tracker fund — finance: type of savings account
- traffic duty — an assignment to help the flow of traffic and enforce traffic regulations
- transfermium — having an atomic number greater than 100, the atomic number of fermium.
- trifurcation — to divide into three forks or branches.
- trumpet-leaf — trumpets.
- 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
- tubulifloral — (of a plant) tubuliflorous
- turf dancing — a fluid style of street-dancing originating in the Bay Area of San Francisco, California
- ultracareful — extremely or especially careful