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12-letter words containing f, a, n, t, s

  • soft chancre — chancroid.
  • soft landing — space vehicle
  • somnifacient — causing or inducing sleep.
  • sorbefacient — inducing absorption
  • south-facing — facing towards the south
  • spanish foot — a carved pyramidal foot having fluted, concave sides usually ending in a scroll at the bottom.
  • spiflication — rough treatment
  • stand in for — to substitute for
  • stand up for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
  • stand-offish — If you say that someone is stand-offish, you mean that they behave in a formal and rather unfriendly way.
  • 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
  • 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
  • stefan's law — the principle that the energy radiated per second by unit area of a black body at thermodynamic temperature T is directly proportional to T4. The constant of proportionality is the Stefan constant, equal to 5.670400 × 10–8 Wm–2 K–4
  • stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
  • stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
  • subinfeudate — to grant (lands) by subinfeudation
  • 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.
  • take offense — If someone takes offense at something you say or do, they feel upset, often unnecessarily, because they think you are being rude to them.
  • thankfulness — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
  • thousandfold — having a thousand elements or parts.
  • thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
  • titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.
  • 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.
  • traffic sign — notice to vehicles
  • trans female — a person who was born male but whose gender identity is female.
  • transfection — the insertion into a cell of a bacterial plasmid that contains a foreign virus or genetic material.
  • transfer box — A transfer box is a gear system that divides the power between the front and rear axles of a four-wheel drive system.
  • transfer fee — a sum of money paid by one football club to another for a transferred player
  • transfer rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
  • transfer tax — a transaction fee imposed on the transfer of title to property
  • transferable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • transference — the act or process of transferring.
  • transfermium — having an atomic number greater than 100, the atomic number of fermium.
  • transferring — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • transforming — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
  • transformism — the doctrine of gradual transformation of one species into another by descent with modification through many generations.
  • transformist — an adherent of transformism.
  • transmogrify — to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.
  • transpacific — passing or extending across the Pacific.
  • 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
  • understaffed — having an insufficient number of personnel: The hospital is understaffed.
  • unfastidious — not fastidious; not fussy; not appropriately concerned with detail or cleanliness
  • unforecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
  • unobfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
  • unsanctified — not sanctified
  • unsatisfying — lacking in sth
  • unstratified — not stratified; not arranged in strata or layers: unstratified rocks.
  • urban forest — the trees and plants within a city.
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