12-letter words containing f, a, c, t, o
- soft chancre — chancroid.
- somnifacient — causing or inducing sleep.
- 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.
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- spiflication — rough treatment
- stalactiform — resembling or shaped like a stalactite.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- 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
- take care of — a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
- take offence — be upset or shocked
- testificator — a person who witnesses
- to lose face — If you lose face, you do something which makes you appear weak and makes people respect or admire you less. If you do something in order to save face, you do it in order to avoid appearing weak and losing people's respect or admiration.
- to sb's face — If you say something to someone's face, you say it openly in their presence.
- tobacco leaf — the leaves of the tobacco plant, used for the production of cigarettes and tobacco
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- transfection — the insertion into a cell of a bacterial plasmid that contains a foreign virus or genetic material.
- trefoil arch — an arch with cusplike intrados.
- trifurcation — to divide into three forks or branches.
- trinacriform — three-pronged
- typification — to serve as a typical example of; exemplify.
- unconfutable — to prove to be false, invalid, or defective; disprove: to confute an argument.
- unforecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- unfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- unifactorial — of or relating to a single gene.
- unobfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- verification — the act of verifying.
- vilification — to speak ill of; defame; slander.
- vinification — the process of making wine.
- vivification — to give life to; animate; quicken.
- vociferation — noisy outcry; clamor.
- volta effect — contact potential.
- waffle cloth — honeycomb (def 5a).
- wavefunction — (physics) A mathematical function that describes the propagation of the quantum mechanical wave associated with a particle (or system of particles), related to the probability of finding the particle in a particular region of space.
- wikification — The process of adding wiki syntax to text in a wiki platform, or converting HTML to wiki markup.