12-letter words containing f, e, r, o, s, i
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- oversimplify — make too simple
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- pacific rose — a large variety of eating apple from New Zealand, with sweet flesh
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
- perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
- personifying — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- press office — a section of a government department or other organization responsible for dealing with the press
- prison fever — typhus.
- pro-feminism — the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
- professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- professorial — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
- profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages
- prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- pyritiferous — having or producing pyrites
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- redispose of — to dispose of again
- resiniferous — yielding resin.
- river forest — a city in NE Illinois.
- saffron rice — a dish made from white rice and flavoured with the spice saffron
- salutiferous — salutary.
- sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
- satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- savoir faire — knowledge of just what to do in any situation; tact.
- savoir-faire — knowledge of just what to do in any situation; tact.
- seleniferous — containing or yielding selenium.
- self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
- seminiferous — Anatomy. conveying or containing semen.
- serous fluid — any of various clear, watery fluids in the body.
- serpentiform — shaped like a snake.
- shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
- shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
- siliciferous — containing, combined with, or producing silica.
- silver frost — glaze (def 17).
- sixth former — student: 16-18
- slipper foot — an elongated pad foot.
- soboliferous — bearing or producing soboles
- 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.
- solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
- soporiferous — bringing sleep; soporific.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- stelliferous — having or abounding with stars.
- strike force — a military force armed and trained for attack.
- sudoriferous — bearing or secreting sweat.
- suffruticose — woody at the base and herbaceous above.