12-letter words containing f, a, s, t, i
- self-tapping — (of a screw) cutting its own thread when screwed into a plain hole in a metal sheet
- semifinalist — a participant or one qualified to participate in a semifinal.
- semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
- sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
- service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
- sheath knife — a knife carried in a sheath.
- significants — important; of consequence.
- significator — a planet deemed significant in astrology
- silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
- sinification — to Sinicize.
- slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
- soft landing — space vehicle
- solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
- 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
- space flight — journey into outer space
- spanish foot — a carved pyramidal foot having fluted, concave sides usually ending in a scroll at the bottom.
- spiflication — rough treatment
- stage fright — nervousness felt by a performer or speaker when appearing before an audience.
- stalactiform — resembling or shaped like a stalactite.
- stand in for — to substitute for
- 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
- steam fitter — a person who installs and repairs steampipes and their accessories.
- straight off — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- stratiformis — occurring in a very extensive horizontal layer.
- strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
- stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- stupefactive — serving to stupefy.
- 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
- subinfeudate — to grant (lands) by subinfeudation
- surf casting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
- testificator — a person who witnesses
- the fair sex — women collectively
- 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.
- 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.
- traffic sign — notice to vehicles
- transfection — the insertion into a cell of a bacterial plasmid that contains a foreign virus or genetic material.
- 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