12-letter words containing f, e, r, a, c
- power factor — (in an electrical circuit) the ratio of the power dissipated to the product of the input volts times amps
- prefabricate — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
- prefinancing — financing arranged in advance
- prime factor — any number in the set of prime numbers that is also a factor of a given integer
- putrefaction — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- putrefactive — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- quarry-faced — rock-faced.
- radical left — the faction representing extreme left-wing political views, often Marxist or Maoist in ideology.
- raman effect — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
- reclassified — to classify anew.
- reflectogram — an image of an under-drawing or image taken from beneath the surface of paint in a work of art
- refractivity — the power to refract.
- refugee camp — a camp for sheltering and protecting people who have fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution
- road surface — the surface of the road, often asphalt
- roman a clef — a novel that represents historical events and characters under the guise of fiction.
- roof terrace — a garden on the roof of a building
- rubber-faced — having a face with unusually mobile features: a rubber-faced comedian.
- safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
- saffron rice — a dish made from white rice and flavoured with the spice saffron
- scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
- scared stiff — terrified
- scire facias — a writ requiring the party against whom it is brought to show cause why a judgment, letters patent, etc., should not be executed, vacated, or annulled.
- scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
- sea crawfish — spiny lobster
- sea crayfish — spiny lobster.
- self-created — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- soft chancre — chancroid.
- soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- space-filler — a short article of little or no importance written to fill space in a magazine or newspaper
- sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
- square-faced — having a front shaped so as to be square or rectangular
- stark effect — Physics. (often lowercase) the splitting into two or more components of the spectral lines of atoms in an electric field.
- surface area — the total area on the surface of a three-dimensional figure
- surface mail — the system, especially a government postal system, of sending mail by truck, train, or boat, as opposed to airmail.
- surface road — a road or street level with its surroundings: surface roads and elevated highways.
- surface wave — a seismic wave that travels along or parallel to the earth's surface (distinguished from body wave).
- take care of — a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
- terrifically — extraordinarily great or intense: terrific speed.
- testificator — a person who witnesses
- torrefaction — to subject to fire or intense heat; parch, roast, or scorch.
- 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.
- tracker fund — finance: type of savings account
- tractor feed — Computers. a mechanism for aligning and transporting paper for a printer by means of pins that catch in perforations along the edges of the paper.
- traffic cone — conical road markers
- transfection — the insertion into a cell of a bacterial plasmid that contains a foreign virus or genetic material.
- transference — the act or process of transferring.