12-letter words containing f, e, p, i
- self-playing — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- self-priming — the powder or other material used to ignite a charge.
- self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- self-tapping — (of a screw) cutting its own thread when screwed into a plain hole in a metal sheet
- self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
- serpentiform — shaped like a snake.
- shoo-fly pie — an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
- simple fruit — a fruit formed from one pistil.
- simplifiable — having the ability to be made less complicated, clearer, or easier
- sleep it off — to rid oneself of the effects of some excess, overindulgence, etc., specif. of the aftereffects of drinking much alcoholic liquor, by sleeping
- slipper foot — an elongated pad foot.
- soil profile — a vertical succession of horizons, commonly lettered A, B, C (beginning at the surface), that have been subjected to soil-forming processes, chiefly leaching and oxidation.
- soporiferous — bringing sleep; soporific.
- space flight — journey into outer space
- space-filler — a short article of little or no importance written to fill space in a magazine or newspaper
- spearfishing — any of several fishes of the genus Tetrapturus, resembling the sailfish but having the first dorsal fin much less developed: inhabiting all seas, but rare.
- specifically — in a definite or precise manner: The suspect was not specifically named in the report. More specifically, you will be responsible for half the total cost.
- speechifying — Speechifying is the making of speeches, especially because you want to appear important.
- spindle file — a device for holding bills, memos, etc., having a projecting metal spike or hooked object on which to stick papers.
- spiny-finned — having fins with sharp bony rays, as an acanthopterygian.
- spitefulness — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- spring fever — a listless, lazy, or restless feeling commonly associated with the beginning of spring.
- stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- stupefactive — serving to stupefy.
- stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- sulfite pulp — wood pulp made by the sulfite process.
- taper relief — (in Britain) a system of relief from capital gains tax under which the percentage of a chargeable gain considered taxable is reduced for each whole year (from April 1998) that the asset was held by the vendor
- tempus fugit — time flies
- to open fire — If you open fire on someone, you start shooting at them.
- triple fugue — a fugue with a subject and two countersubjects developed simultaneously.
- trypaflavine — acriflavine hydrochloride.
- underspecify — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- unperfection — imperfection
- unperforming — not performing
- unprofitable — being without profit; not showing or turning a profit: a series of unprofitable ventures.
- unsaponified — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
- unsimplified — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- zip fastener — a zipper.