12-letter words containing f, e, t, u, s
- juventa fons — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed through a telescope.
- k'ung fu-tse — Chinese name of Confucius.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- leaf mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- left-justify — If printed text is left-justified, each line begins at the same distance from the left-hand edge of the page or column.
- life support — equipment to sustain a patient's life
- life-support — of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.
- loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
- manufactures — Plural form of manufacture.
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- misfeaturing — distorting the features
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- mutessarifat — a province governed by a mutessarif
- nefud desert — a desert in N Saudi Arabia: areas of reddish sand. About 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km).
- of substance — wealthy
- out of phase — in an unsynchronized way
- out of scale — If something is out of scale with the things near it, it is too big or too small in relation to them.
- out of shape — person: unfit
- out of style — no longer fashionable
- out-of-state — of, relating to, or from another state of the U.S.: a car with an out-of-state license plate; out-of-state vacationers.
- outside-left — a footballer who plays on the outside left wing of the field
- over-stuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
- perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- postfracture — taking place after a fracture
- put flesh on — If you put flesh on something, you add details and more information to it.
- pyritiferous — having or producing pyrites
- quarterstaff — a former English weapon consisting of a stout pole 6 to 8 feet (1.8 to 2.4 meters) long, tipped with iron.
- refuse chute — a chute in a building which rubbish and waste is thrown down to the main refuse bins, etc
- respectfully — full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference: a respectful reply.
- safe conduct — If you are given safe conduct, the authorities officially allow you to travel somewhere, guaranteeing that you will not be arrested or harmed while doing so.
- safe-conduct — a document authorizing safe passage through a region, especially in time of war.
- safety touch — a two-point play
- salutiferous — salutary.
- self-studies — the study of something by oneself, as through books, records, etc., without direct supervision or attendance in a class: She learned to read German by self-study.
- self-support — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
- self-torture — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
- self-tuition — the charge or fee for instruction, as at a private school or a college or university: The college will raise its tuition again next year.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- 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.
- set function — a function having a collection of sets as domain.
- seventy-four — a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- simple fruit — a fruit formed from one pistil.
- slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
- sneak out of — leave secretly
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- 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.