12-letter words containing f, a, s, t, o, r
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- man of straw — straw man.
- memory farts — (jargon, humour) The flatulent sounds that some MS-DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory at boot time.
- 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.
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- 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
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- postfracture — taking place after a fracture
- professorate — the office or the period of service of a professor.
- protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- rotflmaoastc — (chat) Rolling on the floor laughing my ass (or arse) off and scaring the cat. The superlative form of ROTFL.
- safety razor — a razor with a guard to prevent the blade from cutting the skin.
- salutiferous — salutary.
- satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- satisfactory — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
- scarificator — a person who scarifies.
- scratchproof — resistant to scratches.
- self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
- shatterproof — designed or made to resist shattering: shatterproof glass in automobile windows.
- significator — a planet deemed significant in astrology
- silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
- small-format — A small-format store is one in which a large retail chain offers only part of their range in a smaller store.
- 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.
- solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
- 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.
- 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.
- stalactiform — resembling or shaped like a stalactite.
- stand in for — to substitute for
- stand up for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- 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.
- straight off — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- stratiformis — occurring in a very extensive horizontal layer.
- 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
- 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