12-letter words containing c, r, a, f
- service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- significator — a planet deemed significant in astrology
- silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
- soft chancre — chancroid.
- soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
- 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.
- space-filler — a short article of little or no importance written to fill space in a magazine or newspaper
- sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
- square-faced — having a front shaped so as to be square or rectangular
- stalactiform — resembling or shaped like a stalactite.
- stark effect — Physics. (often lowercase) the splitting into two or more components of the spectral lines of atoms in an electric field.
- 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.
- surface area — the total area on the surface of a three-dimensional figure
- surface mail — the system, especially a government postal system, of sending mail by truck, train, or boat, as opposed to airmail.
- surface road — a road or street level with its surroundings: surface roads and elevated highways.
- surface wave — a seismic wave that travels along or parallel to the earth's surface (distinguished from body wave).
- synchroflash — of or relating to photography employing a device that synchronizes the photoflash with the shutter.
- take care of — a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
- terrifically — extraordinarily great or intense: terrific speed.
- testificator — a person who witnesses
- 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
- traffic duty — an assignment to help the flow of traffic and enforce traffic regulations
- traffic sign — notice to vehicles
- 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.
- transpacific — passing or extending across the Pacific.
- trefoil arch — an arch with cusplike intrados.
- trifurcation — to divide into three forks or branches.
- trinacriform — three-pronged
- turf dancing — a fluid style of street-dancing originating in the Bay Area of San Francisco, California
- ultracareful — extremely or especially careful
- unartificial — not showing art or skill; not skilled or artistic
- uncalled for — not called for; not required; superfluous; unwanted.
- uncalled-for — not called for; not required; superfluous; unwanted.
- undersurface — underside; bottom surface.
- 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.
- unfranchised — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- ungracefully — in an ungraceful manner
- unifactorial — of or relating to a single gene.
- usufructuary — of, relating to, or of the nature of usufruct.
- vacuum frame — a machine from which the air is extracted in order to obtain close contact between the surfaces of two materials, e.g. the film and plate during platemaking
- verification — the act of verifying.