12-letter words containing c, i, s, t, e, r
- executorship — The office or position of an executor.
- extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
- factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
- federalistic — an advocate of federalism.
- fence-sitter — a person who remains neutral or undecided in a controversy.
- festschrifts — Plural form of festschrift.
- fiber optics — the branch of optics that deals with the transmission of light through transparent fibers, as in the form of pulses for the transmission of data or communications, or through fiber bundles for the transmission of images.
- fibre optics — optical fibre
- fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
- fish culture — the artificial propagation and breeding of fish.
- for instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- for-instance — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- fornicatress — (obsolete) A woman guilty of fornication.
- forrest city — a city in E Arkansas.
- fort pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
- foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
- francescatti — Zino [zee-noh] /ˈzi noʊ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1991, French violinist.
- french sixth — (in musical harmony) an augmented sixth chord having a major third and an augmented fourth between the root and the augmented sixth
- french stick — a long straight notched stick loaf
- french twist — French roll.
- frictionless — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
- frog sticker — Slang. a knife, especially one carried as a weapon.
- frog-sticker — Slang. a knife, especially one carried as a weapon.
- frontispiece — an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
- fructiferous — fruit-bearing; producing fruit.
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- gastrectasia — (medicine) dilation of the stomach.
- gastrocnemii — Plural form of gastrocnemius.
- gatecrashing — Present participle of gatecrash.
- generatrices — Plural form of generatrix.
- geochemistry — the science dealing with the chemical changes in and the composition of the earth's crust.
- geostrategic — Of, pertaining to, or using geostrategy.
- gesticulator — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- grammaticise — to make grammatical
- great schism — a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office.
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- hermeneutics — the science of interpretation, especially of the Scriptures.
- heteroclisis — (grammar) The presence of two or more classes of inflection in the inflectional paradigm of a noun, verb etc.
- heteroclites — Plural form of heteroclite.
- heteroecious — the development of different stages of a parasitic species on different host plants.
- heterosocial — relating to or denoting mixed-sex social relationships
- hierarchists — hierarchical principles, rule, or influence.
- historicized — Simple past tense and past participle of historicize.
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
- hypercritics — a person who is excessively or captiously critical.
- hyperplastic — Of, or relating to hyperplasia.
- hysterically — of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
- hysterogenic — inducing hysteria.
- iatrochemist — a person who practises iatrochemistry