12-letter words containing f, a, r, o, e
- run-of-paper — R.O.P.
- safe harbour — a place that offers protection from the weather, attack, etc
- safety razor — a razor with a guard to prevent the blade from cutting the skin.
- saffron rice — a dish made from white rice and flavoured with the spice saffron
- sale of work — a sale of goods and handicrafts made by the members of a club, church congregation, etc, to raise money
- salutiferous — salutary.
- san fernando — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
- sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
- satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- savoir faire — knowledge of just what to do in any situation; tact.
- savoir-faire — knowledge of just what to do in any situation; tact.
- self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
- several-fold — comprising several parts or members.
- shatterproof — designed or made to resist shattering: shatterproof glass in automobile windows.
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- 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.
- soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
- 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.
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- 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.
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- sulfonylurea — any of a group of oral drugs, as tolbutamide, that stimulate the pancreas to secrete more insulin, used to treat diabetes
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- surface road — a road or street level with its surroundings: surface roads and elevated highways.
- take care of — a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
- tamper-proof — resistant to interference, alteration
- telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
- ternary form — a musical form in three sections, with the third usually an exact repetition of the first.
- terraforming — to alter the environment of (a celestial body) in order to make capable of supporting terrestrial life forms.
- testificator — a person who witnesses
- thoroughfare — a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
- tie-off rail — trim rail.
- titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.
- to a frazzle — absolutely; completely (esp in the phrase burnt to a frazzle)
- tongue graft — whip graft.
- 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.
- 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.
- trefoil arch — an arch with cusplike intrados.
- trifoliolate — having three leaflets, as a compound leaf.
- unaffordable — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.