12-letter words containing f, e, t, r, s
- send out for — If you send out for food, for example pizzas or sandwiches, you phone and ask for it to be delivered to you.
- sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
- serpentiform — shaped like a snake.
- 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
- seventy-four — a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.
- shatterproof — designed or made to resist shattering: shatterproof glass in automobile windows.
- sheet feeder — a device that feeds paper into a printer one sheet at a time.
- shelf talker — a cardboard, paper, or plastic advertisement of a product designed to be attached to a shelf on which the product is exhibited for sale.
- shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
- shirt-lifter — a homosexual
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- silver frost — glaze (def 17).
- simple fruit — a fruit formed from one pistil.
- sixth former — student: 16-18
- slipper foot — an elongated pad foot.
- soft chancre — chancroid.
- soft release — a means of gradually accustoming wild animals to a new environment before releasing them into it
- soft-centred — (of a chocolate or boiled sweet) having a centre consisting of cream, jelly, etc
- soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- stage fright — nervousness felt by a performer or speaker when appearing before an audience.
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- stark effect — Physics. (often lowercase) the splitting into two or more components of the spectral lines of atoms in an electric field.
- starter flat — a compact flat marketed by price and size specifications to suit the requirements of first-time home buyers
- state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
- state of war — a condition marked by armed conflict between or among states, existing whether or not war has been declared formally by any of the belligerents.
- stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
- steam fitter — a person who installs and repairs steampipes and their accessories.
- stelliferous — having or abounding with stars.
- 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.
- stormfulness — the quality or state of being stormful
- streamer fly — an artificial fly having a wing or wings extending beyond the crook of the fishhook.
- strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
- 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.
- subfertility — below-average fertility
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- suffruticose — woody at the base and herbaceous above.
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
- testificator — a person who witnesses
- the fair sex — women collectively
- the far east — the countries of E Asia, usually including China, Japan, North and South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines: sometimes extended to include all territories east of Afghanistan
- the far west — the area of the United States west of the Great Plains
- the flickers — the cinema
- the frizzies — the condition of having frizzy hair