12-letter words containing f, i, a, s
- law of sines — a law stating that the ratio of a side of a plane triangle to the sine of the opposite angle is the same for all three sides.
- life savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- lifestreamer — a person who provides an online record of his or her life, either by means of live video footage or via an online collection of social network updates, blogs, and photos
- lifting sail — a sail that when filled tends to raise the hull of a ship or boat (opposed to driving sail).
- little falls — a township in NE New Jersey.
- loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- macclesfield — a market town in NW England, in Cheshire: former centre of the silk industry; pharmaceuticals, services. Pop: 50 688 (2001)
- macrofossils — Plural form of macrofossil.
- make friends — get to know people
- malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
- malfunctions — Plural form of malfunction.
- manifestness — The quality or state of being manifest or obvious.
- manifoldness — (mathematics) multiplicity.
- mauvaise foi — (in the philosophy of Sartre) the expression usually rendered as bad faith
- metafictions — Plural form of metafiction.
- mischanceful — unlucky
- misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
- misfeaturing — distorting the features
- misformation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- muffin stand — a small stand having several tiers for holding muffins, cakes, etc., and a tea service.
- multifarious — having many different parts, elements, forms, etc.
- musica ficta — the use of chromatically altered tones in the contrapuntal music of the 10th to the 16th centuries.
- mutessarifat — a province governed by a mutessarif
- myofilaments — Plural form of myofilament.
- nannofossils — Plural form of nannofossil.
- neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
- newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- nonformalism — Absence of, or a belief system that is the opposite of, formalism.
- oasification — The process of restoring water, soil, and plant life to an environment that has been degraded by soil erosion.
- obfuscations — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
- office space — part of a building for business use
- oil of anise — the aromatic seed of anise, the oil of which (anise oil, aniseed oil, oil of anise) is used in the manufacture of anethole, in medicine as a carminative and expectorant, and in cookery and liqueurs for its licoricelike flavor.
- oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.
- olefiant gas — ethylene (def 2).
- olfactronics — the measurement and analysis of smells through instruments
- ossification — the act or process of ossifying.
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- 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
- pack of lies — false account
- passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- pecksniffian — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.