12-letter words containing c, l, i, f, s
- solifluction — creep (def 22a).
- space flight — journey into outer space
- space-filler — a short article of little or no importance written to fill space in a magazine or newspaper
- specifically — in a definite or precise manner: The suspect was not specifically named in the report. More specifically, you will be responsible for half the total cost.
- spiflication — rough treatment
- stalactiform — resembling or shaped like a stalactite.
- 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
- sufficiently — adequate for the purpose; enough: sufficient proof; sufficient protection.
- surface mail — the system, especially a government postal system, of sending mail by truck, train, or boat, as opposed to airmail.
- the flickers — the cinema
- thiosulfuric — of or derived from thiosulfuric acid.
- tonic sol-fa — a system of singing characterized by emphasis upon tonality or key relationship, in which tones are indicated by the initial letters of the syllables of the sol-fa system rather than by conventional staff notation.
- 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.
- unclassified — not assigned to a class or category; not arranged according to characteristics: Reported instances fall into two main types, with a few unclassified anomalies.
- vociferously — crying out noisily; clamorous.
- 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.
- zinc sulfide — a white to yellow, crystalline powder, ZnS, soluble in acids, insoluble in water, occurring naturally as wurtzite and sphalerite: used as a pigment and as a phosphor on x-ray and television screens.