12-letter words containing f, e, i, n, s, c
- metafictions — Plural form of metafiction.
- mischanceful — unlucky
- misconfigure — Configure (a system or part of it) incorrectly.
- misinference — Incorrect inference.
- misreference — to reference (an academic work, a publication, etc) inaccurately or incorrectly
- monospecific — having or comprising a single species
- neckerchiefs — Plural form of neckerchief.
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- non-specific — Non-specific medical conditions or symptoms have more than one possible cause.
- nonfluencies — spoken or written with ease: fluent French.
- of necessity — something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
- ostrich fern — a tall North American fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, with large mature leaves that resemble ostrich plumes, a popular landscaping plant whose curled new leaves, called fiddleheads, are eaten as a vegetable.
- pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- pecksniffian — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- pontificates — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
- safety chain — a chain on the fastening of a bracelet, watch, etc, to ensure that it cannot open enough to fall off accidentally
- saffron rice — a dish made from white rice and flavoured with the spice saffron
- sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
- self-closing — the end or conclusion, as of a speech.
- self-conceit — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
- self-cooking — the act of a person or thing that cooks.
- self-finance — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
- self-induced — induced by oneself or itself.
- self-locking — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- self-mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- semi-fiction — the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, especially in prose form.
- set function — a function having a collection of sets as domain.
- significance — importance; consequence: the significance of the new treaty.
- soft science — any of the specialized fields or disciplines, as psychology, sociology, anthropology, or political science, that interpret human behavior, institutions, society, etc., on the basis of scientific investigations for which it may be difficult to establish strictly measurable criteria.
- somnifacient — causing or inducing sleep.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- speechifying — Speechifying is the making of speeches, especially because you want to appear important.
- stiff-necked — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
- stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- subinfection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
- sufficiently — adequate for the purpose; enough: sufficient proof; sufficient protection.
- swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
- transfection — the insertion into a cell of a bacterial plasmid that contains a foreign virus or genetic material.
- unclassified — not assigned to a class or category; not arranged according to characteristics: Reported instances fall into two main types, with a few unclassified anomalies.
- underspecify — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- unfranchised — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- unsanctified — not sanctified
- unscientific — not scientific; not employed in science: an unscientific measuring device.
- unscottified — not Scottish; taken out of a Scottish context
- unsufficient — insufficient
- west african — of or relating to West Africa
- zinc sulfate — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble powder, ZnSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used for preserving skins and wood, in the electrodeposition of zinc, in the bleaching of paper, as a mordant in calico printing, and in medicine as an astringent, styptic, and emetic.