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12-letter words containing f, a, r, s

  • infraclasses — Plural form of infraclass.
  • insufferable — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
  • insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
  • iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
  • isapi filter — (web)   A replaceable DLL which the server calls whenever there is an HTTP request. When the filter is first loaded, it communicates to the server what sort of notifications will be accepted. After that, whenever a selected event occurs, the filter is called to process the event. Example applications of ISAPI filters include custom authentication schemes, compression, encryption, logging, traffic analysis or other request analyses.
  • jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
  • jeffersonian — pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
  • jesus freaks — a member of any of several fundamentalist groups of chiefly young people (Jesus people) originating in the early 1970s and emphasizing intense personal devotion to and study of Jesus Christ and His teachings.
  • king-of-arms — a title of certain of the principal heralds of England and certain other kingdoms empowered by their sovereigns to grant armorial bearings.
  • korsakoffian — relating to or suffering from Korsakoff's psychosis
  • lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
  • larch sawfly — a red and black sawfly, Pristiphora erichsonii, the larvae of which infest and feed on the leaves of larch.
  • laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
  • law of areas — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • leaf mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
  • leapfroggers — Plural form of leapfrogger.
  • lifestreamer — a person who provides an online record of his or her life, either by means of live video footage or via an online collection of social network updates, blogs, and photos
  • loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
  • lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
  • macrofossils — Plural form of macrofossil.
  • make friends — get to know people
  • malefactress — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
  • man of straw — straw man.
  • mansard-roof — Also called mansard roof. a hip roof, each face of which has a steeper lower part and a shallower upper part. Compare French roof.
  • manufactures — Plural form of manufacture.
  • mass funeral — a funeral held for several dead people at the same time
  • memory farts — (jargon, humour)   The flatulent sounds that some MS-DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory at boot time.
  • misfeaturing — distorting the features
  • misformation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
  • misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
  • multifarious — having many different parts, elements, forms, etc.
  • mutessarifat — a province governed by a mutessarif
  • noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
  • nonformalism — Absence of, or a belief system that is the opposite of, formalism.
  • off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
  • offset paper — paper used in a printing method in which the impression is made onto an intermediate surface, such as a rubber blanket, which transfers it to the paper
  • olfactronics — the measurement and analysis of smells through instruments
  • on all fours — all four limbs or extremities; the four legs or feet of an animal or both arms and both legs or both hands and both feet of a person: The cat rolled off the ledge but landed on all fours.
  • overclassify — to classify to excess
  • overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
  • pacific rose — a large variety of eating apple from New Zealand, with sweet flesh
  • parcel shelf — flat storage panel in a vehicle
  • parsley fern — a small bright green tufted European fern, Cryptogramma crispa, that grows on acid scree and rock in uplands
  • pasch flower — pasqueflower
  • pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
  • passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
  • past perfect — pluperfect.
  • perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
  • persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
  • petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
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