12-letter words containing f, e, s, t, c
- self-content — satisfaction with oneself; self-complacency.
- self-control — control or restraint of oneself or one's actions, feelings, etc.
- self-created — to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- self-elected — chosen by vote, as for an office (contrasted with appointed): an elected official.
- self-excited — noting a generator with magnets that are excited by the current it produces.
- self-neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
- self-respect — proper esteem or regard for the dignity of one's character.
- selfie stick — a rod on which a camera or mobile phone may be mounted in order to take a photograph of oneself
- semi-fiction — the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, especially in prose form.
- service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
- service lift — a lift which carries heavy goods in a place of business, as for example, plates in a restaurant
- set function — a function having a collection of sets as domain.
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- smooth-faced — beardless; smooth-shaven.
- snotty-faced — having visible nasal mucus on the face
- soft chancre — chancroid.
- 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.
- soft-centred — (of a chocolate or boiled sweet) having a centre consisting of cream, jelly, etc
- somnifacient — causing or inducing sleep.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- sound effect — any sound, other than music or speech, artificially reproduced to create an effect in a dramatic presentation, as the sound of a storm or a creaking door.
- space flight — journey into outer space
- stage effect — a highly spectacular or artificial device or means, especially for attracting attention.
- stark effect — Physics. (often lowercase) the splitting into two or more components of the spectral lines of atoms in an electric field.
- stick figure — a diagrammatic drawing representing a human or animal, usually made with one line each for the torso and appendages, and often a circle for the head.
- stiff-necked — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
- strike force — a military force armed and trained for attack.
- strong force — Also called nuclear force. the short-range attractive force between baryons that holds together the nucleus of the atom.
- stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- stupefactive — serving to stupefy.
- subinfection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
- subjectified — to make subjective.
- subjectifies — to make subjective.
- sufficiently — adequate for the purpose; enough: sufficient proof; sufficient protection.
- suffruticose — woody at the base and herbaceous above.
- testificator — a person who witnesses
- the flickers — the cinema
- to lose face — If you lose face, you do something which makes you appear weak and makes people respect or admire you less. If you do something in order to save face, you do it in order to avoid appearing weak and losing people's respect or admiration.
- to sb's face — If you say something to someone's face, you say it openly in their presence.
- 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.
- 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.
- unforecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- unobfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- unrespectful — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- 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