12-letter words containing f, a, r, e, s, t
- satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- scared stiff — terrified
- scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
- self-created — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- self-mastery — self-control.
- self-reliant — relying on oneself or on one's own powers, resources, etc.
- self-starter — starter (def 3).
- self-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
- self-treated — to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
- sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
- service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
- shatterproof — designed or made to resist shattering: shatterproof glass in automobile windows.
- shelf talker — a cardboard, paper, or plastic advertisement of a product designed to be attached to a shelf on which the product is exhibited for sale.
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- soft chancre — chancroid.
- soft release — a means of gradually accustoming wild animals to a new environment before releasing them into it
- soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- stage fright — nervousness felt by a performer or speaker when appearing before an audience.
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- stark effect — Physics. (often lowercase) the splitting into two or more components of the spectral lines of atoms in an electric field.
- starter flat — a compact flat marketed by price and size specifications to suit the requirements of first-time home buyers
- state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
- state of war — a condition marked by armed conflict between or among states, existing whether or not war has been declared formally by any of the belligerents.
- stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
- steam fitter — a person who installs and repairs steampipes and their accessories.
- streamer fly — an artificial fly having a wing or wings extending beyond the crook of the fishhook.
- strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
- testificator — a person who witnesses
- the fair sex — women collectively
- the far east — the countries of E Asia, usually including China, Japan, North and South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines: sometimes extended to include all territories east of Afghanistan
- the far west — the area of the United States west of the Great Plains
- thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
- titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.
- 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.
- 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.